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🔸澳州10开奖记录: A Progress Report on the Interstate Highway System, 1961

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A great old map on a subject matter very dear to my heart – the Interstate Highway System. Produced in 1961 by the Caterpillar Tractor Company, who stood to gain a great deal in the construction work required to complete the network, it shows the proposed completed network in white, sections under construction with blue dashes, and – somewhat counter-intuitively – sections that are open to traffic in red. It’s immediately apparent how little of […]

Historical Photo: Streetcars on an Inclined Railway, Cincinnati, 1904

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Not a map, but included because this is possibly the strangest piece of transit infrastructure I’ve ever seen. Discovered while researching the post about Cincinnati’s abandoned subway, this photo shows what happened 🔸澳洲开奖 that city’s streetcars met the steep hills surrounding the downtown area. At this time, the streetcars were used in conjunction with f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of Cincinnati’s five inclined railways: the Mount Adams Incline, Mount Auburn Incline, Bellevue Incline, and the Fairview Incline. The cars […]