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.	Storm King Highway	Frontispiece
	A Great Engineering Project Along the Hudson between Cornwall and West Point, N. Y.
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2.	The Appian Way		22
	Showing the original Paving Stones laid 300 B.C.
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.
19.	The Evolution of the Steam Automobile		182
	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.)
20.	A Modern Rural Passenger Bus		184
21.	A New York City “Stepless” Bus		184
	It Has an Emergency Door, with Wire Window Guards, and will Seat 30 Persons.
22.	The Evolution of the Gasoline Motor Car		188
	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.)
23.	Hauling Beans by Motor Truck and Trailer		200
	Sacramento Valley, Calif.
24.	Hauling Sugar Beets to Market in a Motor Truck		200
25.	Traffic on Fifth Avenue, New York City		234
26.	Giving a Macadam Road an Application of Tarvia Binder		254
	This is Followed by a Coat of Screenings and then the Road is Rolled Again.
27.	A Road of Mixed Asphalt and Concrete Being Tested Out		254
28.	Crowning a Dirt Road in California with Tractor Drawn Grader		263
29.	A Milk Truck Equipped with both Cans and Tank		296
30.	A Lumber Log Truck Used in the Northwest		296
31.	A National Highway in the Mountains of Maryland		332
32.	A Dangerous Curve Made Safe by an Artistic Concrete Wall		364
	The Tennessee State Highway at Lookout Mountain, Built of Cemented Concrete.
33.	Pin Oak Street Trees		388
	About 15 Years Old on Land that Was Once Considered to be a part of the “Great American Desert.”
34.	A Cottonwood Wind Break		388
	Formerly very Common in the Prairie Region.
35.	Warning and Direction Signs Used in the State of Illinois		434
36.	Traffic Guides		442
	(From Eno’s “The Science of Highway Traffic Regulation.”)
37.	New York City Traffic Guides		444
	“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.”)
38.	Traffic Tower on Fifth Avenue, New York City		446
39.	Camping Ground and Caravan		458
40.	A Gipsying Touring Caravan		458

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