Railroads

Railroad destruction and temporary repair in Mukden, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Railroad destruction and temporary repair in Mukden, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Railroad destruction and temporary repair in Mukden, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Two sets of highway and railway bridges connecting Penshihu and Kungyuan, Manchuria. Both were disabled by Chinese Communists. Photo shows the south bridge. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

One of the two railroad bridges crossing the Taitzu Ho between Penchihu and Kungyuan, Manchuria, destroyed by Chinese Communist forces. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Locomotives lined up on railroad tracks in yard at Anshan Numata Machinery Company. This plan built narrow gauge steam locomotives and dump cars used for mining and construction work. The shops were partially stripped by Chinese Communists and mobs. The Soviets removed 300 tons of unfabricated steel but left eight new locomotives untouched. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

A railway engine standing on tracks at iron mines northeast of Anshan, Manchuria. This was practically the only piece of surface equipment remaining after Soviet soldiers removed everything during occupation. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Members of the Reparations Mission party sitting at a table in the dining car of their special train to Anshan, Manchuria. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Marines from Tientsin, on railcar, who brought jeeps to Mukden, Manchuria, for use by the Reparations Mission led by Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Front row from left to right, District Commissioner Guy Jason, First Lady Bess Truman, Margaret Truman, President Harry S. Truman. They are standing on the rear of a train at Union Station, Washington, D.C. having returned from a political campaigning trip.