List of Inserts
Storm King Highway
A Great Engineering Project Along the Hudson between Cornwall and West Point, N. Y.
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The Appian Way
Showing the original Paving Stones laid 300 B.C.
Showing Some of the Twenty or More Roads that Radiated from Rome.
(After Jackman: “Development of Transportation in Modern England.”)
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.)
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.)
Showing Transcontinental Trails in the United States.
Way Bill
Used on the Slaymaker Stage Line from Lancaster to Philadelphia, 1815. (Courtesy of Prof. P. K. Slaymaker, Lincoln, Nebr.)
The Sault Ste. Marie Canal
The Evolution of the Railway Train
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.)
Modern Locomotives
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.
Transportation Across Death Valley
A Picturesque Method of Earlier Days.
Good Roads Day in Jackson County, Mo.
Chart of the Organization of the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, 1917
Hard Surface Highway in Oregon
A Farmer’s Wife Meeting the Postal Truck
Trackless Trolley Operated on Staten Island, N. Y.
Motor or Rail-Car
Showing the Gasoline Locomotive and Trailer, Operated by the Chicago & Great Western R. R.
The Evolution of the Steam Automobile
1. The Cugnot Steam Carriage—1770.
2. The Trevithick & Vivian Steam Carriage—1801.
3. The Gurney Steam Carriage—1827.
4. The Church Automobile Carriage (Steam)—1833.
5. Gaillardit’s Steam Carriage—1894.
(Courtesy of the Scientific American.)
A Modern Rural Passenger Bus
A New York City “Stepless” Bus
It Has an Emergency Door, with Wire Window Guards, and will Seat 30 Persons.
The Evolution of the Gasoline Motor Car
1. Panhard & Levassor Carriage—1895.
2. Duryea Motor Wagon—1895.
3. The Benz Motocycle.
4. Hertel’s Gasoline Carriage—1896.
5. The Olds Horseless Carriage.
6. Winton’s Racing Machine.
(Courtesy of the Scientific American.)
Hauling Beans by Motor Truck and Trailer
Sacramento Valley, Calif.
Hauling Sugar Beets to Market in a Motor Truck
Traffic on Fifth Avenue, New York City
Giving a Macadam Road an Application of Tarvia Binder
This is Followed by a Coat of Screenings and then the Road is Rolled Again.
A Road of Mixed Asphalt and Concrete Being Tested Out
Crowning a Dirt Road in California with Tractor Drawn Grader
A Milk Truck Equipped with both Cans and Tank
A Lumber Log Truck Used in the Northwest
A National Highway in the Mountains of Maryland
A Dangerous Curve Made Safe by an Artistic Concrete Wall
The Tennessee State Highway at Lookout Mountain, Built of Cemented Concrete.
Pin Oak Street Trees
About 15 Years Old on Land that Was Once Considered to be a part of the “Great American Desert.”
A Cottonwood Wind Break
Formerly very Common in the Prairie Region.
Warning and Direction Signs Used in the State of Illinois
Traffic Guides
(From Eno’s “The Science of Highway Traffic Regulation.”)
New York City Traffic Guides
“In November, 1903, one hundred blue and white enameled signs, directing slow-moving vehicles to keep near the right-hand curb, were put in use in New York. These were probably the first traffic regulation signs ever used.” (From Eno’s “The Science of Highway Traffic Regulation.”)
Traffic Tower on Fifth Avenue, New York City
Camping Ground and Caravan
A Gipsying Touring Caravan
HIGHWAYS AND HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION