The 540-foot long and 65-foot wide ship, outfitted with 50-caliber machine guns to help transport doctors and supplies to American Expeditionary Forces in France during The Great War, was last ...

Built in Lyon, France, between 1893 and 1895, the boxcar was used in World War I to transport troops and supplies. Known as a “40 and 8” car, it could carry 40 soldiers or eight horses in ...