Automotive
http://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2014/01/washington-state-highways-traffic-level-of-service-status-update.html
in the 1920's Webster & Stevens took photos of terrible roads in King County Washington
http://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2014/01/washington-state-highways-traffic-level-of-service-status-update.html
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Bridges... the fastest way to make them used to be just dropping a log across a cleft. This is the only untrussed log bridge I've ever seen with a train on it, made of just two logs. 
Lake Sawyer log dump train, 1920s
origin of the term Rummage Sale history lesson, 1898
Mule and oxen team logging 1885 
railroad tycoons paid off congress to pass the Pacific Railway Act of 1864 it doubled the size of land grants awarded to railways
