Group of men watching first train of loaded tank cars

Group of men watching first train of loaded tank cars after opening ceremony at Norris City, Illinois on February 19, 1943. The train moved east. Back row from left to right: W.L. Draeger, Chief Engineer Defense Plant Corporation; W. Alton Jones, President of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; and George H. Hill, Jr., Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Defense Supplies Corporation. Front row from left to right: Major A.N. Horne, Vice President and Assistant General Manager, War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War; Burt E. Hull, Vice President and General Manager, War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; Bert I. Graves, Executive Vice President, Tide Water Associated Oil Company and a Director of War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.; and Major J.R. Parten, Director of Transportation, Petroleum Administration for War. From the Scrapbook War Emergency Pipelines, Inc.: Construction Views, Eastern Extension of East Texas-East Coast Pipeline Volume II.