1919 Boston to San Fransisco and Return via Lincoln Highway.. Goodyears pioneering work of trucking expeditions to get roads made, and goods transported by trucks and tires, instead of railways Automotive I don't recall seeing a film from this long ago with such a great variety of trucks, flatbeds, busses, and heavy haulersI posted about the expedition http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/03/it-was-april-1917-and-goodyear-set-out.html Automotive Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:in the 1920's Webster & Stevens took photos of terrible roads in King County Washingtonhttp://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2014/01/washington-state-highways-traffic-level-of-service-status-update.html… Read MoreLake Sawyer log dump train, 1920shttp://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2016/07/lake-sawyer-log-dump-circa-1924.html… Read More 33 cars who set out to tour New Zealand in January 1917, to survey the roads to get improvements made, only 10 made it100 people including MPs, Roads Board members, business managers, telegraph operators, photographers, an ambulance man, three land scouts, a biographer, and a handful of reporters were in 33 cars set out on the tour in Januar… Read MoreHistory has some completely astonishing stories that we never have heard of. Rarely does it intersect with this auto hobby, and the coachbuilders, but The book, the Kellner Affair tells the fascinating story of how some people in the French luxury car business who fought bravely against the Nazi occupation force in Paris.Because you've never heard about Mont Valérien, the p… Read Morerailroad tycoons paid off congress to pass the Pacific Railway Act of 1864 it doubled the size of land grants awarded to railwaysAs you can see from the above map, the total number of acres granted to the railroads was enormous. In total, the railroads received more than 175 million acres of public land If the Homestead Act was Exhibit A of congressio… Read More