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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
CAMP HUMPHREYS
VIRGINIA
Beginnings of Fort Belvoir, VA along the shore of the Potomac River - May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Engineers Truck Company, Camp Humphreys, VA c1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives Record Group RG:165, Training Camps and Schools
Industrial railway at Camp Humphreys, VA ca1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives Record Group RG:165, Training Camps and Schools
Negro section, Camp Humphreys VA ca1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives Record Group RG:165, Training Camps and Schools
Railroad 15 miles in length used between dock on Potomac R. and Camp Humphreys, VA ca1918 NARA165-WW-524F-002
Source of Photograph: National Archives Record Group RG:165, Training Camps and Schools
Railroad trestle, 62 ft. high, constructed by Engineers at Camp Humphreys
[14 gas locomotives 100 cars & 15 miles of track] ca 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives Record Group RG:165, Training Camps and Schools
YMCA Amphitheatre at Camp Humphreys, VA ca1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives Record Group RG:165, Training Camps and Schools
International Harvester sloped hood Auto Wagon at Camp Humphreys, VA - May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
3,000 feet of lumber per flat car being hoisted up the incline on the RR
to Camp Humphreys May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
5 ton Mack trucks at the Accotink Railroad Station on the RF&P RR May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
70 tn locomotive operated by Corps of Engineers on the spur line
between Accotink and Camp Humphreys, VA May 1, 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
75 hp hoisting engine used to haul loaded cars up the 800 ft.
incline on the Camp Humphreys railway - May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Bolting rails to steel ties for the Industrial railroad at Camp Humphreys, VA May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Pierre Charles L'Enfant,
né le 2 août 1754 à Paris
et mort le 14 juin 1825
à Chillum (Maryland),
est un ingénieur civil et architecte franco-américain.
Il a élaboré les plans de la capitale des États-Unis d'Amérique, Federal City, aujourd'hui connue sous le nom de Washington, DC.
Gov't Steamer Major L'Enfant on the Potomac River
approaching Camp Humphreys, Belvoir, VA May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
SS Major L'Enfant at the dock for 102nd Engineers at Camp Humphreys, VA
[original camp site] May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
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Industrial railway at Camp Humphreys - May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Industrial railway at Camp Humphreys - May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Laying the track on planks over leveled ground at Camp Humphreys, VA May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Loading 5 tn Mack trucks with RR and construction material at Newington Sta. Accotink. VA,
Camp Humpreys, VA May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Looking up the 800 ft. incline with cable lift on the Camp Humphreys railway, May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
This 7-mile line, built in 1917, stretched from Accotink Station on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
(CSX today) in Newington to Fort Belvior, a post about
10 miles south of Alexandria.
The line was used to serve coal for heating at both the post itself as well as a nearby government prison, along with other miscellaneous freight.
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Railroad operations along the line ceased in 1993.
The line from the CSX connection to a local road is still largely intact but overgrown.
The trackage along the remainder of the line has been removed.
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Thanks to Tim Moriarty for contributing information about this route.
Main line of RF&P RR at Accotink with Camp Humphreys Spur running off to the left, May 1, 1918 NARA111-SC-010001-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Manual land fill for the spur line to Newington [RF&P RR] , Camp Humphreys VA May 1. 1918 NARA111-SC-009995-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Narrow gauge RR showing 3 Baldwin gasoline locomotives on the 1.5 mile line
from Belvoir on the Potomac to Camp Humphreys, VA May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Recently installed hoisting engine takes 2 cars up the incline, Camp Humphreys, VA May 1918 NARA7_1280111-SC-009899-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Steam traction powers excavation machine [Herman & Inshur General Contractors, Marquette, MI] Camp Humphreys, VA 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Thew steam shovel in RR cut near Accotink, Trestle No. 2 in distance,
Camp Humphreys, VA May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Train of 2 cars starting out from Belvoir to Camp Humphreys May 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
U. S. E. D. No. 1 steam locomotive Mogul 2-6-0
on the spur between Accotink and Camp Humphreys, VA May 1, 1918
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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
New Army Engineers learning their trade at Camp Humphreys VA 1917
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Source of Photograph: Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress.