mebert72 Loc: Plainfield, IL

I live in a town where the Lincoln Highway and Rt 66 intersect, in Plainfield Illinois. I drive on the Lincoln Highway (rt 30 in these parts) every day when I leave our subdivision.

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In Nevada and California, and I believe Utah West of the Wasatch The Lincoln Highway is US 50. Interestingly, Dwight David Eisenhower, back when he was a Major was part of the effort. As President Eisenhower, his lasting achievement, (beyond a bewildered Soviet Union) was the Interstate Highway System, of which I-80 is a major Artery. It passes 2 miles from my home on its Journey from the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey to the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

A compelling story captures in several books and video productions.

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rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

In the Philadelphia area part of the Lincoln Highway runs parallel to The Main Line. My wife grew up in Ardmore, one of the towns on Route 30. We travel on some part of the highway several times a week.

Kishka Loc: Grafton, WI

My father drove us on the Lincoln Hwy in the '60's to Virginia from south of Chicago, leaving lasting memories of the rural sights in early summer. Years later I drove the same stretch of highway to Warsaw-Winona Lake, IN for classes at the Winona School of Professional Photography. The old road still exists if you prefer to drive though the towns but most drive the newer 4 lane Hwy 30.

Cyberkinesis70 Loc: Northern Colorado

I used to live in Laramie Wyo. I was a teenager before I-80 was built in our area. The picture of Lincoln's bust(in another post) was at the top of the Summit in a different location from where it is today. The ride to the top of the Summit was very treacherous in the summer. Most cars overheated and quit. It was a very steep grade. Going back the other way was even worse. A lot of people that didn't shift to a lower gear are probably wishing they did it from the grave. Them old brakes just couldn't last if you didn't shift down. Winter was even worse. I can't can't even detail the thrill of sliding down a hill in a '50 Chevrolet in which I had no more control. I have a bunch more tales of other things that happened on this route. Like the time Kennedy came to Wyoming trying to get re-elected. The part I'm referring to pretty much is followed by I-80 from Cheyenne. After Laramie it doesn't. You have to go to US 287 to follow the route, to Walcott Junction. It rejoins the original Lincoln Highway more or less.

Birdman642 Loc: PA

Rt. 30 west from Bedford to Greensburg.

fantom Loc: Colorado

I drive parts of it from time to time. The last time was several years ago and I decided to top off the gas tank in a small "town" because the next pump was probably about a hundred miles ahead and because there was a big sign on the building saying "Lincoln Highway". There were still several buildings standing and the one single gas station/general store.

I was joking with the old timer who ran the place about the outrageous price of gas. He said the wholesale price to him was so high that he drives over 120 miles round trip into Laramie to buy gas for his own vehicle. That is much cheaper than what he pays for it delivered to his storage tank. His is the only station around for many, many miles and it is very costly for the wholesaler to deliver up there.

FWIW, I was on that road to get pix of the old train station where Tom Horn's boss got stabbed by Willie Nickels' father. Horn got hung for shooting (maybe) Willie. Prior to that I was taking pix inside of a hotel and saloon, in a one horse town that has basically just one business. You guessed it---a hotel and saloon, which had changed its name to "Virginian" over a hundred years ago. Not much had changed in the last hundred plus years. It was allegedly in that bar that someone said "When you call me that... Smile." You can google it.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Jerry, My great grandfather and grandfather farmed along the Lincoln Highway (US 30)in Harrison county, Iowa. They and many many other members of my family, including my mother and oldest brother are buried at Dunlap, Iowa where the highway passes through. I have been up and down that road more times than I can begin to say.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Good to know. I remember riding on "The Grand Army of the Republic Highway" in PA.
https://www.roadtrip62.com/us-6-introduction.htm

worldcycle Loc: Stateline, Nevada

[quote=jerryc41]I watched an interesting hour about the Lincoln Highway last night - YouTube. I remember hearing about that road when I was a kid. It has a very interesting history. Have any of you ever ridden on the portions that still remain? I-80 took over a large portion of it. Boy Scouts across the country installed about 3,000 of the posts pictured below.[/quote

You can hike or ride your mountain bike up the Lincoln Highway over Donner Pass in California. The route takes you over the same route that countless emigrants traveled over the pass to Sacramento and the gold fields of California. The Central Pacific Railroad used this route also to cross Donner Pass in building the first Transcontinental Railroad. The Lincoln Highway tunneled under the railroad close to the top. You can also hike through the original tunnels and snow sheds built back in 1862 since they rerouted the tracks several years ago.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

[quote=worldcycle][quote=jerryc41]I watched an interesting hour about the Lincoln Highway last night - YouTube. I remember hearing about that road when I was a kid. It has a very interesting history. Have any of you ever ridden on the portions that still remain? I-80 took over a large portion of it. Boy Scouts across the country installed about 3,000 of the posts pictured below.[/quote

You can hike or ride your mountain bike up the Lincoln Highway over Donner Pass in California. The route takes you over the same route that countless emigrants traveled over the pass to Sacramento and the gold fields of California. The Central Pacific Railroad used this route also to cross Donner Pass in building the first Transcontinental Railroad. The Lincoln Highway tunneled under the railroad close to the top. You can also hike through the original tunnels and snow sheds built back in 1862 since they rerouted the tracks several years ago.[/quote]

Thanks. Interesting.

DakotaColt

A secondary question I'd ask about Lincoln Highway would be 'how may of the students at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb who travelled there from the Chicago suburbs (myself a '69 grad. included) thought about who it was named for'. It runs along the south side of the campus so who knows how many of us have 'done Lincoln Highway' by foot, bike (bicycle) or auto. How many freight trains did we wait for over the years? It was the main 'drag' through town. Did Lincoln ever know of the highway named for him?

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

I, too, have cooled my heels many times on US 30 while waiting for a train to pass by. I am not quite sure what you mean when you ask if "...Lincoln ever [knew] of the highway named for him?" Lincoln had been gone for about a half century by the time the Lincoln highway was constructed. There were other "named" roads crossing the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific or vice versa if you were headed east. Some of these included the Lee Highway from New York to San Francisco, the Bankhead Trail from Washington D.C to San Diego, the Old National Trail from New York to Los Angeles, the Victory Trail from New York to San Francisco and the Yellowstone Trail from Boston to Seattle. There were others and all sorts of roads that crossed the country from Canada to Mexico such as the Jefferson Highway.

john maloney Loc: Columbia,Md.

This was today on rte. 30 near Caledonia, Pa.

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DakotaColt

Right RodeoMan, I wasn't thinking straight on the one about Lincoln knowing of the road in his name. A fiend and I 'did' Route 66 in my 52 Chevy in 1959. Some call it the Mother Road, if so there are a lot of other named roads criss crossing the country, but a slight detour to the Grand Canyon is hard to beat. On the way back up through SFO, then over Donner pass, a couple days on the Salt Flats to watch Mickey Thompson try for 400 mph in his Challenger, through the Rockies and back. Too bad I wasn't into photography then but a lot of memories just the same of a beautiful Country. JimM