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A 1927 map of Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, ending in Los Angeles.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration (2023). Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76407
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76407.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76407.
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The longest road in the United States was once the second longest: U.S. 20 from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon.
Rambler, T. (2023). Ask the Rambler: What Is the Longest Highway in the United States?. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75818
Rambler, The. Ask the Rambler: What Is the Longest Highway in the United States?. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75818.
Rambler, The Ask the Rambler: What Is the Longest Highway in the United States?. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75818.
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Running parallel to the Mississippi River, Missouri's Highway 79 once linked riverboat boomtowns in Louisiana. Many of the mansions and businesses of these towns were abandoned when riverboat and railroad wealth dried up. As a designated scenic byway, Highway 79 is now part of an economic revitalization program that focuses on restoring the boomtow
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Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time Highway 79, Little Dixie Highway of the Great River Road. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75699
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time Highway 79, Little Dixie Highway of the Great River Road. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75699.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time Highway 79, Little Dixie Highway of the Great River Road. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75699.
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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is celebrating 100 years of transportation. Governor Jennifer Granholm signed a Certificate of Proclamation on behalf of the citizens of Michigan proclaiming 2005 as Transportation Centennial Year. Michigan, home of Henry Ford and the Henry Ford Museum, and known for its automobile industry, has been
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Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time Michigan DOT Celebrates Transportation Centennial Year. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75738
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time Michigan DOT Celebrates Transportation Centennial Year. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75738.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time Michigan DOT Celebrates Transportation Centennial Year. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75738.
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Ever mindful that history is most interesting when it is helpful, the Rambler thought it might be worth mentioning that the Federal Government's first road aid was accomplished through innovative financing.
Rambler, T. (2023). The Rambler’s Innovative Financing Tips No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75835
Rambler, The. The Rambler’s Innovative Financing Tips No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75835.
Rambler, The The Rambler’s Innovative Financing Tips No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75835.
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The Cumberland Gap, which measures 1,304 feet in altitude, is Nature's passage through the Cumberland Mountains between Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The Cumberland Gap served as an important passage for many settlers moving west, but its popularity declined due to the establishment of other routes. Railroads later bypassed the Cumberland Gap.
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Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time The Cumberland Gap. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75673
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time The Cumberland Gap. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75673.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time The Cumberland Gap. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75673.
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A little piece of water transportation history is alive, well and operating in many towns and cities across America. Included is the small village of Kampsville, Illinois, on the Great River Road, Highway IL-100. Ferry boats can carry passengers, their vehicles, and cargo across waterways everyday, but unless we live near a ferry boat, we hear litt
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Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time The Kampsville River Ferry. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75701
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time The Kampsville River Ferry. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75701.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time The Kampsville River Ferry. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75701.
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A brief history of Mississippi State highways, including information about road construction, key legislation and funding sources, and the impact of the Civil War on the highway system.
Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time The Evolution of Mississippi Highways. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75696
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time The Evolution of Mississippi Highways. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75696.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time The Evolution of Mississippi Highways. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75696.
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Following Steve Hachenberger's donation of the original 1936 Number 25 license plates that belonged to Charles Henry Davis in his Good Roads Everywhere campaign, the State of Montana reproduced the license plates for him.
Hachenberger, S. (2023). Back in Time Good Roads Everywhere... in Montana. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75712
Hachenberger, Steve. Back in Time Good Roads Everywhere... in Montana. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75712.
Hachenberger, Steve Back in Time Good Roads Everywhere... in Montana. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75712.
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A 1915/1916 map of the stretch of the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Chrisman, Illinois.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration (2023). Indianapolis, Ind., to Chrisman, Ill. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76401
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Indianapolis, Ind., to Chrisman, Ill. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76401.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration Indianapolis, Ind., to Chrisman, Ill. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76401.
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In 1925, at the request of the State highway agencies, the Secretary of Agriculture appointed the Joint Board on Interstate Highways to develop a plan for marking the Nation's interstate highways. The Joint Board, which included 21 State highway officials and three officials of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, met with State road officials around t
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Weingroff, R. F. (2023). U.S. 14 Chicago, Illinois, to Yellowstone National Park. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76478
Weingroff, Richard F.. U.S. 14 Chicago, Illinois, to Yellowstone National Park. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76478.
Weingroff, Richard F. U.S. 14 Chicago, Illinois, to Yellowstone National Park. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76478.
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A brief history of road construction throughout world history and description of modern road building practices and materials in the United States, with a focus on asphalt concrete.
Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time Building Roads. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75672
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time Building Roads. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75672.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time Building Roads. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75672.
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Fifty-seven miles of rustic carriage roads weave around the mountains and through the valleys of Maine's Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island. John D. Rockefeller Jr. worked with the National Parks Service to create this system of auto-free horse roads which are today maintained by the National Park Service.
Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time Maine's Carriage Roads. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75706
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time Maine's Carriage Roads. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75706.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time Maine's Carriage Roads. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75706.
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When the Joint Board on Interstate Highways released its report on the proposed U.S. numbered highway plan in October 1925, the report identified U.S. 2, the northernmost east-west route, from Houlton, Maine, to Bonners Ferry, Idaho. (U.S. 2 was used instead of U.S. 0 for this major route.) The route listings included only one branch of U.S. 2, des
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration (2023). U.S. 202 - Maine to Delaware. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76550
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. U.S. 202 - Maine to Delaware. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76550.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration U.S. 202 - Maine to Delaware. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76550.
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Fortunately, we rarely hear of traffic accidents involving buses, trains, or other highway public transportation vehicles. However, we sometimes hear of snowstorms and other extreme weather conditions where a bus is involved in a multiple car pile-up with injuries and even fatalities, or a train that has derailed. Although the pioneers didn't have
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Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time Stagecoach Accidents. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75762
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time Stagecoach Accidents. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75762.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time Stagecoach Accidents. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75762.
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This is the story of a highway that couldn't make up its mind--the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway (PPOO), one of the early transcontinental highways of the named trail era (about 1910-1926).
Weingroff, R. F. (2023). The Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway the Appian Way of America. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75664
Weingroff, Richard F.. The Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway the Appian Way of America. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75664.
Weingroff, Richard F. The Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway the Appian Way of America. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75664.
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In 1928, 4.6 million automobiles were sold. When the stock market crashed in October of 1929, many of those cars could not be used as gasoline prices increased and gas was soon rationed. Many of these motorists removed the heavy engines, the windshields, windows, and other parts to lighten the weight of the vehicle. Then they hitched it to the team
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Longfellow, R. (2023). Back in Time The Bennett Buggy and the Hoover Wagon. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75666
Longfellow, Rickie. Back in Time The Bennett Buggy and the Hoover Wagon. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75666.
Longfellow, Rickie Back in Time The Bennett Buggy and the Hoover Wagon. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75666.
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Let's get something straight: Baltimore was not the terminus of the National Road! The initial road went from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia (later West Virginia). It was eventually extended west to Vandalia, Illinois. It didn't go east to Baltimore. The Rambler wishes to put that myth to rest right here and doesn't want to see it in a
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Rambler, The. Maryland's Bank Road. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75905.
Rambler, The Maryland's Bank Road. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75905.
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A 1915/1916 map of the stretch of the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway from Salt Lake, Utah to Reno, Nevada.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration (2023). Salt Lake, Utah, to Reno, Nev. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76571
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Salt Lake, Utah, to Reno, Nev. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76571.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration Salt Lake, Utah, to Reno, Nev. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76571.
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The Weekly Gasoline Product Supplied Report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Adminis
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information (2023). Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report: Gasoline Product Supplied for Fiscal Year Week No. 38, Data Complete Through 6/23/2023. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68934
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information. Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report: Gasoline Product Supplied for Fiscal Year Week No. 38, Data Complete Through 6/23/2023. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information, 2023. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68934.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report: Gasoline Product Supplied for Fiscal Year Week No. 38, Data Complete Through 6/23/2023. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information, 2023, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/68934.
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