Railroad through Iran helps speed U.S. war supplies to Russian front.

Railroad through Iran helps speed U.S. war supplies to Russian front. To speed the flow of military supplies to Russia under the U.S. leand-lease program, American experts have taken over operation of the Persian State Railway, which crosses the mountains and deserts of Iran. Over this 1400-mile railroad, locomotives operated and serviced for the most part by Americans haul great quantities of guns, ammunition and other lend-lease supplies from Iranian parts on the Persian Gulf to Soviet military bases near the Caspian Sea. A line of Allied freighters lies at the docks at a supply port as war materials are unloaded for shipment by the Iranian railroad and by highway to Russia.