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Rail in the Persian Corridor Overview

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Colonel Paul Yount, commanding officer of the American Army Railway Service Mikado and Stanier at the running shed at Camp Atterbury, Tehran Stanier 8F in trouble at the Tehran engine shed Mikado in trouble at the Tehran engine shed US Railroaders on an Alco diesel, talking to the Russian Ally Major-General Donald H. Connolly, Commanding Gerneral, Persian Gulf Service Command exchanging greetings with Russian General A.M. Koroloff on the occasion of the arrival of the first All-American train An American Sergeant railroader lighting the cigarette of two Russian railroad engineers as they stand before a German-made Krupp Ferrostaal engine being used to haul supplies for a Russian railway American, Russian and English engineers in the cab of their German-built Krupp Ferrostaal engine Top view from a Mikado roof Stanier derailed and awaiting recovery Two Alco diesel engines at a supply depot somewhere in Iran Side view of a Mikado pulling a great load of supplies for Russia along a mountain-rimmed plateau somewhere in Iran A running shed somewhere in Iran A railroad yard showing freight car axles An American soldier engineer climbing into the cab of his train American and British engineers taking time out for a smoke on the front of a Mikado Afro-American engineer An American soldier trainman with the insignia of the United States Army on the visor of his cap Mikado steam engine in the Zagros Mountains Mikado steam engine at Durud Alco diesel engine at Durud Two Alco diesel engines moving freight out of a tunnel in the Zagros Mountains Huge railway viaduct in the Zagros Mountains One of 135 tunnels on a 165-mile section in the Zagros Mountains Major General Lewis Brererton, Commanding General of the US Army Forces in the Middle East, inspecting a newly-arrived Alco diesel engine An American Mikado being unloaded from a lighter at the Ahwas railway jetty Supplies for Russia awaiting removal from a port where they were unloaded from American freighters in the Middle East An American M3A1 'Stuart' tank being loaded onto a railroad car in the Middle East enroute to Russia An American tank being loaded onto a railroad car in the Middle East enroute to Russia American M4A2 75mm 'Sherman' tanks on flatcars Canadian 'Valentine' tanks on flatcars A newly-arrived Alco diesel engine being unloaded at the Ahwas railway jetty British Stanier 8F being unloaded at the Ahwas railway jetty British Stanier 8F being carefully put on rails at the Ahwas railway jetty British Stanier 8F 2-8-0 US Alco 0-6-6-0DE US Mikado 2-8-2