1868 The Bechtel Story by Robert Ingram , Engineering and Construction, The World. Published in 1968. Photos 1, 2 and 3 show the front cover, back cover and binding. Photos 4 and 5 show the Title Pages. Photo # 6 shows the Table of Contents. Photo # 7 shows the First 40 Years. Photo # 8 shows Arthur V. Bechtel as he joined his brother on the railroad jobs at an early age and became an expect on on construction methods. Equipment was always a prime interest with him, like this railroad steam shovel at work in the 1920's, double tracking railroad mainline over the California Sierra Mountains. Photo # 8 shows W. A. Bechtel, with sons Stephen Bechtel. Kenneth Bechtel, and Warren Jr. Bechtel during construction of Southern Pacific's Natron Cut Off in Oregon, 1924. The Natron Cut Off was also known as the Pengra Pass rail route which connected Eugene, Oregon with Klamath Falls, Oregon. Construction of the line began in 1905 and was completed in the mid-1920's. The name denotes a mountain pass on the Lane County - Klamath County boundary in the Cascade Mountains. Pengra Pass was named in honor of Bryon J. Pengra, who was the first Surveyor General of Oregon and was appointed to that position in 1862, Bryon Pengra was active in the area when he initiated the building of a military wagon road up the Middle Fork of the Willamette River. The Natron Cut Off and has at least 22 tunnels, several snow sheds and multiple bridges across the canyons. The railroad running through Pengra Pass has 44 miles of constant grade, the longest anywhere in the former Southern Pacific Railroad system including Donner Pass. Byron lived in Lane County, Oregon, in the Eugene, Springfield area on Chase Garden Way, across the road from the old Pruneville School. His five boys attended the school which covered Grades 1_thru 12. The bottom 2 photos show dog sleds delivering mail and supplies to the Bechtel Construction Crews on the Bowman Dam, Nevada County, California. The crews got snowed in during a rough winter. Photos probably from the 1920's. Photo # 10 shows Hoover Dam construction. During the 1930;s Depression, Bechtel turned their attention to public works project and Hoover Dam was one of them. In its day Hoover Dam was by far the largest construction job ever undertaken anywhere as a prime contract and even by present standards ranks among the most formidable. Its completion in under five years, t years ahead of schedule demonstrated that its builders would make their marks in the construction world. Hoover's graduates included Stephen Bechtel, Kenneth Bechtel, Henry Kaiser, Edgar Kaiser, Clay Redford of the Kaiser organization,  H, W. Morrison of Morrison-Knudsen, and Gil J. F. Shea of J. F. Shea Company, all subsequently among the industry's greatest leaders. Photo # 11 shows the ceremonies in W. A. Bechtel's office with President ,Franklin D. Roosevelt, E. S. Burney o Nevada Construction Company and Bechtel veteran Earle Lloyd. The bottom photo shows, left to right, H. J. Lawler, W. R. Young, Chas. A. Shea, E. O. Watts. Dr. Elwood Mead, Frank Crowe, R. F. Walter and W. A. Bechtel. Photo # 12 shows Trans Arabian Pipeline construction. The pipeline is being inspected by 2 camels. this photo is probably from the late 1940's. The pipeline was an 980 mile pipeline from Qaisumah in Saudi Arabia to Sidon in Lebanon, active between 1950 and 1976. The pipeline ceased operations in1990. Qaisumah or Al Qaysumah is a village belonging to the City of Hafar al-Batin in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Eastern Province is also known as Ash Sharqiyah. Photo # 13 shows a map of Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. This picture is not in the book, just for reference. Photo # 14 shows the Aden Petroleum Refinery, power house, process facilities and housing in the Aden Harbor. Aden was later renamed Yemen. The harbor encloses the eastern side of a vast natural harbor that constitutes the modern port. The area is short of water and as described by the 14th Century scholar, Ibn Battuta, where the Cisterns of Tawila collected rainwater for the sole purpose of drinking water for the city's citizens. This area was called Little Aden which later became the site of the Aden Oil Refinery, built by Bechtel. The refinery was operated by British Petroleum until they were turned over to South Yemen ownership and control in 1978. Photo # 15 shows the Bechtel Team building the Aden Refinery: shown are, Heinie Hindmarsh, Jim Brady. Ro Ross, Fred Brown, Walter Sims and Jim Leaver. Photos 16 and 17 describe the story of how it was built. Photo # 18 shows Union Valley Dam on the Upper American River, California. Photo # 19 shows the Carol Lake Iron Ore Project. Labrador, Canada. Photo # 20 shows the Puget Sound Refinery, with Mount Rainer in the background. Photo # 21 shows the Alberta-California Pipeline under construction over the Continental Divide at Flathead Ridge, British Columbia. Elevation is 7,200 feet, the highest point on the 1,400 mile route, going from Edmonton, Alberta to Vancouver, British Columbia. Photo # 22 shows a map of the pipeline. This map is not in the Bechtel Book, but just for reference. Photo # 23 shows the photo credits for the pictures in the book.