Contact sheet containing 37 images. ENVELOPE TEXT: Vietnam - railroad - roll E.  NOTES ON CONTACT SHEET: Dec. 16 - Roll E foto id - for Vietnamese railroad story - 1-5:  Here come de train down de track.  6:  ARVN guard rides shotgun on train to fend off any VC or NVA who may try to stop the train.  7-9:  various shots of the engine (7:  Notice black smoke pouring out of stack as Vietnamese engineer pours on oil before starting up).  10:  Vietnamese workmen and their families ride the cars on this work train.  They live with their families in these cars - eat and sleep in the cars.  11:  Another shot from atop the cars.  12-16:  Various shots of Chemin de Fer engine.  NOTE:  Shots 13 and 14 show proud Vietnamese train driver leaning from cab of engine.  This guy's job is almost extinct, but he's a proud old cuss and glad to be back at his job driving a steam locomotive after nearly four years of forced inactivity.  17, 18:  ARVN guards set out defense perimeter as train stops for water.  19, 20:  Guards hop to it to catch train again after it finishes watering down in handy trackside rice paddy.  21, 22:  same 19 & 20, more or less.  23:  The stack and empty headlight frame on ancient locomotive.  24:  Another shot of the engine.  25, 26:  Another defense bunker guarding a bridge on the track.  27-30:  ARVN rides shotgun atop a boxcar with his M79.  31, 32:  Bridge on the rail line with Viet Popular Forces guard.  33:  American GI guard shaves and washes up in river below bridge.  34, 35:  GI guard relaxes on bridge railing as train roars by at all of 15 mph.  36:  Another guard bunker.

Photograph 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."