Soldiers, with the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy, pull cable from a supply truck near North Platte, Nebraska. Closeup of the chain and cable on the back of the truck. Next, soldiers are gathered around one of the convoy trucks with its right wheels off in a ditch. Soldiers hook up chain from the truck to a Holt tractor. View from the front of the truck tipped into the ditch, with chains fastened to it stretched out on the dirt road. Soldiers (unseen) repair side of road by shoveling earth into a ditch from which a truck has just been pulled. Small logs used in the effort are seen near the ditch. Soldiers walk along a dirt road followed by several trucks, chained together, one behind the other. (Another group of convoy trucks is seen in the far background.) View from rear of the chained trucks. One soldier pushes a small wagon towed by the last truck.
Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy from Washington, DC to San Francisco, California, roll along the dirt road of the Lincoln Highway, crossing the Continental Divide, in Wyoming. Behind them, soldiers walk near a slow moving truck with sign painted on its back reading: "Coast to Coast Machine Shop, Service Park Unit 595." Another truck slowly passes the same point, where there is a downhill grade. A dwelling is at the side of the road, and others are seen in the background. The road is dry hard-packed dirt. Next, trucks of the convoy are seen driving on a road parallel to a railroad on which a steam locomotive is pushing a long train of freight cars in the same direction as the trucks. View of trucks driving past extended snake rail fencing.
Trucks of the U.S. Army 1919 coast-to-coast motor convoy are silhouetted against the sky as they drive across open plains in Wyoming. Closer view of the trucks raising lots of dust as they proceed along a dry dirt road. Convoy trucks descending a hill and crossing a small bridge over a creek. View of trucks driving away over semi desert raising dust as they proceed. A truck moving through dust partially obscuring visibility.
A truck in the U.S. Army 1919 motor convoy, across America, is seen with its right rear wheel broken through the road bed of a wooden bridge across a dry creek, in Whyoming. The truck was heavily laden, carrying a Holt tractor in its bed. Soldiers stand about as an operator backs the tractor out of the truck. They then examine the situation. Closeup of the truck wheel broken through wooden floor boards of the bridge. They hook the rear of the truck to the Holt tractor and pull it out of the hole in the bridge. Next, the convoy is seen stopped at the bridge and for a long way in the distance, as soldiers lay coiled planking (sort of pre-fabricated corduroy road) at the dry creek to facilitate passage by trucks around the wooden bridge. A truck begins to drive up the embankment on the planking, with difficulty, as soldiers help push it. Scene shifts to two trucks slowly climbing a narrow dirt road.
View from just beside and below a mountain road in Sierra Nevada mountains, as trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army motor transport convoy make their way from Nevada into California. View from ahead, and below of the trucks. The narrow mountain road is lined with rock boulders and the mountain rises almost vertically beside it. A Holt tractor pulling a truck by a chain, along a stretch of the road. Trucks proceeding successfully on their own on other parts of the road. Several picturesque views by the camera operator.
Picturesque views of the 1919 U.S. Army motor transport convoy making its way through the beautiful forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Tall evergreen trees and dramatic mountain views frame many pictures of the convoy. The convoy stopped at Kybury, California, for dinner.
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