The Nenana daily news., 1919-01-22
LOCOMOTIVES OF
 AMERICAN BUILD
 MAKE FAST TIME

( bled all but the smoke stack and the tender so that they could move under their own steam within a few hours after their arrival in France was among the accomplishments of the United States Army Transport Force under stress of war and has since been continued.
 More than four hundred of these locomotives were so shipped from New York in a few months, it was learned here with the lifting of the war censorship regulations and these were in addition to 1,2O0 which were shipped in sections nine to locomotive packed in cases The ships used to transport the locomotives, complete, were of special type with three holds, each hold measuring 60 by 102 feet en- tered by matches 39 feet wide and 42 feet long,
 Into each of the three holds was placed twelve locomotives-th thirty six to ship. For bed or floor ing on which they rested for the voyage, was used more than 5000 tons of steel rails The locomotives when in position were braced with heavy wooden beams and the space between the boilers to the level of the top of the steam dome packed solid with highly compressed hay. On this hay another flooring was laid, and on this floor was placed the tenders-the smoke stack, with more baled hay or other light cargo packed in the space where coal is to be carried On top of the tend CTS was packed still more cargo to the deck level, and during the rush days the above deck space filled with crated airplanes When com pletely loaded with the 36 loco- motives and other cargo, each ves- sel was carrying a dead weight of l4,O00 tons in addition to ship ma chinery, bunker coal and crew SUD- plies.
 The loading of the locomotives is an interesting sight. Steel-railroad barges, carrying fourteen of the steel monsters are made fast along side l00-ton capacity floating derrick barge, in turn made fast to the ship. An ordinary sling of steel wire is placed around the for ward end of the boilers, another under the supports to the cab, the signal given and the locomotive lifted forty to fifty feet in the air, swung over and gently loaded into the ships hold. The whole oper- ation required but twenty minutes. It was accomplished with the same ease and with the same lack of ex- citement as prevailed on steamer at an adjoining dock which was taking on board 5OO-pound bales of cotton.
 The idea of shipping locomotives complete was conceived when army transport officers were informed that England was shipping them across the channel ready to move away on arrival.
 If England can do it, so can America an officer said, and he straightway communicated fleet or ore carrying vessels which were : constructed with matches larpe . enough to permit the handlinp of such freight.
 When the movement was at it's . height the following time was re- . corded for the movement of a loco. - motive from its builders to it's base , of action behind the battle lines shops to New Jersey terminals oa
 hours; from rail to barge hours , rom terminals to ship side 6 hours barge to ship 20 minutes; New 'ork to France nine days; ship to , army rail lines and hooked to a , transport train bound for the front
 SIX hours; a total of less than
 twelve days.
 Handling of 73-ton locomotives as
 Ii they were but one-tenth of their