This image depicts the construction of some of the ten building ways at the Shipyard. As LSTs were produced, they were moved along tracks in the building ways on dollies. Finally, an LST would end up at the launching way.

The Evansville Shipyard facility cost approximately $6,000,000 to construct and though the site did become the largest producer of LSTs in the country, it initially received a contract from the government for 24 ships. The lead contractor for the project was Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company of Leavenworth, Kansas. The other joint venturers in the project were Winston Brothers of Minneapolis; C. F. Haglin and Sons of Minneapolis; Sollitt Construction Company Inc. of South Bend; Bechtel-McCone Parsons Corporation of Los Angeles; W. A. Bechtel Company of Los Angeles; and H. C. Price Company of Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

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