Highways and Highway TransportationChatburn, George R.
History
Highways and Highway Transportation
Chatburn, George R.
Roads; Transportation
3. MAP OF ITALY 24
Showing Some of the Twenty or More Roads that Radiated from Rome.
4. MAP OF ROMAN ROADS IN ENGLAND 26
(After Jackman: “Development of Transportation in Modern
England.”)
5. MAP OF THE NORTH-EASTERN PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES 36
Showing the Location of Well-known Portages. There Were Other
Portages Wherever Two Water Courses Came Near to Each Other. (See
Farrand: “American Nation,” Vol. I, and Thwaites, Ib. Vol. VII.)
6. MAP 42
Showing Main Highways and Waterways in the United States about
1830. When the Railroads Entered the Industrial Arena, the Country
Was Being Covered With a Net Work of Highways. (Based on Tanner’s
Map of 1825 and Turner in “American Nation,” Vol. XIV.)
7. MAP 54
Showing Transcontinental Trails in the United States.
8. WAY BILL 66
Used on the Slaymaker Stage Line from Lancaster to Philadelphia,
1815. (Courtesy of Prof. P. K. Slaymaker, Lincoln, Nebr.)
9. THE SAULT STE. MARIE CANAL 76
10. THE EVOLUTION OF THE RAILWAY TRAIN 102
1. The First Railway Coach--1825.
2. Horse Power Locomotive--1829-30.
3. Stourbridge Lion--1829.
4. Stevenson’s Rocket Locomotive--1829.
5. The DeWitt Clinton Locomotive--1831.
(From Brown’s “First Locomotive”--Courtesy of D. Appleton &
Company.)
11. MODERN LOCOMOTIVES 120
1. Showing the Growth in the Size of Locomotives During the Past
Twenty Years. The Smaller Locomotive is an _American_ Type
Class Engine of 1900. The Larger is a _Mountain Type_ Engine.
Both are Used on the C. B. & Q. R. R. Photographed at
Lincoln, Nebr., Sept., 1922.
2. One of the New Gearless _Electric_ Locomotives Built by the
General Electric Company for the C. M. & St. Paul R. R.
12. TRANSPORTATION ACROSS DEATH VALLEY 126
A Picturesque Method of Earlier Days.
13. GOOD ROADS DAY IN JACKSON COUNTY, MO. 132
14. CHART OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE U. S. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS
AND RURAL ENGINEERING, 1917 142
15. HARD SURFACE HIGHWAY IN OREGON 146
16. A FARMER’S WIFE MEETING THE POSTAL TRUCK 146
17. TRACKLESS TROLLEY OPERATED ON STATEN ISLAND, N. Y. 166
18. MOTOR OR RAIL-CAR 166
Showing the Gasoline Locomotive and Trailer, Operated by the
Chicago & Great Western R. R.
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