Contact sheet containing 36 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - railroad - roll C.  NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET:  Foto id - roll C - Reynolds - (for Vietnamese railroad story) - Frames 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8:  Vietnamese workman clear rails and raise and straighten track at the end-of-track worksite south of Phu Dai.  Both of the problems they run into are roads built up across tracks like in frame 8.  Frame 9:  A stretch of uncleared track.  10:  11:  Workmen clearing.  12, 13:  reporter interviews USAID Railroad Advisor Lee D. Marsden, formerly a roadbed engineer with Southern Pacific railroad and now advising the VN Natl Railway, at the worksight.  14:  The train from atop one of the cars.  15:  Roadside scenery -- also 16 & 17.  18:  Another view from atop the train.  Reporter rides the car in pic.  19, 20:  The engine passing Truoi switching station (in background).  21:  To of cars, reporter and bridge coming up.  22:  23:  GI guards man trackside bunkers guarding important bridge.  24, 25, 26:  more roadside scenery.  27, 28, 29:  GI guards man trackside guarding important bridge.  Following for "wreck" story.  30:  Shot of the truck after being knocked off tracks by train.  31:  Another shot of truck.  Sp4 Samuel Brown, passenger in truck is in front center just after crawling out from under truck.  32, 33, 34:  more shots of truck.  35:  Sp4 Samuel Brown, passenger in truck.  36:  Sp4 Fred Moore, driver of truck (center foreground).  37:  another shot of truck from top of train.

Two photographs from this contact sheet are published in the Overseas Weekly (Vol. 24, No. 7) issued February 22, 1969, along with the article titled "The New Vietnam Choo Choo" on page 12 and reported out of Phu Bai, South Vietnam. Published captions read "The Chatanooga Choo Choo never had scenery like this," "Vietnamese laborers rebuild track for new line," and "OW Photos by Don Hirst."