Cheyenne, WY - Drive - Lincoln Highway
A drive eastbound on Lincolnway through Cheyenne, Wyoming. Lincolnway was part of the Lincoln Highway across America. This drive was in October 2019.
The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental highway routes for automobiles across the United States of America. The Lincoln Highway was America's first national memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, predating the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., by nine years. As the first automobile road across America, the Lincoln Highway brought great prosperity to the hundreds of cities, towns and villages along the way. The Lincoln Highway became affectionately known as The Main Street Across America.
Lincoln Highway Wyoming USA
Lincoln Highway, Rawlins to Laramie Wyoming on US 30.
100 Years on the Lincoln Highway
Before the Interstate Highway System, before famed Route 66, before highways were even numbered, there was one road that started it all, one road that changed America forever: The Lincoln Highway. “100 Years on the Lincoln Highway” is the story of the first coast to coast automobile road in the United States and its impact on Wyoming.
Wyoming: Cheyenne
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of Wyoming.It was named for the American Indian Cheyenne nation, one of the most famous and prominent Great Plains tribes
As of the census of 2010, there were 59,467 people, 25,558 households, and 15,270 families residing in the city.
The Wyoming State Capitol was constructed between 1886 and 1890, with further improvements being completed in 1917.
Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876 – December 19, 1977) was the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 and director of the United States Mint from 1933 to 1953. She was the first woman to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only woman to have served as governor of Wyoming.
The Union Pacific and BNSF railroads intersect in Cheyenne. The city is home to a BNSF railyard, as well as the Union Pacific's steam program.
The eight foot tall cowboy boots have been carefully painted by local artists to show Wyoming's and Cheyenne's history.
Cheyenne has the atmosphere of a frontier town. Cheyenne is the unmistakably cowboy country. Just as the Wrangler store trade mark slogan states::Long live the cowboy!
Historic Hwy 40, Lincoln Highway
April 6, 2006
Roseville to Auburn California
on the Lincoln Highway
Highway to heaven Wyoming
Lincoln Highway, Nebraska
Lincoln Highway, Nebraska!
On our way to Chicago to start another Route 66 Tour!
Had a bit of extra time to take a small detour and drive an old alignment of the original Lincoln Highway. Doing some research for a potential transcontinental NY to San Francisco tour.
Enter Wyoming.
2010RoadTripUSA. Part 33. Enter Wyoming. August 2010. Music by Soft Machine.
Interstate 80 (I-80) is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States (following Interstate 90). I-80 connects downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey. I-80 is the Interstate Highway that most closely approximates the route of the Lincoln Highway, the first auto trail to cross the country. This Interstate Highway roughly traces other historically significant travel routes in the Western United States: the Oregon Trail across Wyoming and Nebraska, the California Trail across most of Nevada and California, and except in the Great Salt Lake area, the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
In Wyoming, I-80 reaches its maximum elevation of 8,640 feet (2,633 m) above sea level between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming. Farther west in Wyoming, the interstate passes through the dry Red Desert and over the Continental Divide. In a way, the highway crosses the Divide twice, since two ridges of the Rocky Mountains split in Wyoming, forming the Great Divide Basin - from which no surface water escapes.
Wyoming Highway 230 is known locally as Rivers Road and travels from Wyoming Highway 130 approximately 8 miles (13 km) south of Saratoga south from there to intersect WYO 70 in Riverside and then heads southeast to the Colorado-Wyoming State Line. The Route continues southeast in Colorado as Colorado State Highway 125, then it turns northeast as Colorado State Highway 127. At the Wyoming-Colorado State Line, Wyoming 230 resumes. Highway 230 then heads northeast towards Laramie to end at Business Loop I-80/US 30/US 287 in Laramie. Wyoming Highway 230 provides a scenic and less-traveled alternative for travelers who want to avoid Interstate 80 and US 30 but cannot take Wyoming Highway 130 which is closed in the winter. (wikipedia)
I-80 East Street View | USA Travel Tourism | Road Trip | Road Pictures | I-80 Wyoming # 1
I-80 East Street View
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I-80 Wyoming
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental limited-access highway in the United States that runs from downtown San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one of the original routes of the Interstate Highway system. Its final segment was opened to traffic in 1986. It is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, following Interstate 90. The Interstate runs through many major cities including Oakland, California, Sacramento, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, Omaha, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa and Toledo, Ohio, and passes within 10 miles (16 km) of Chicago, Cleveland, Ohio and New York City.
I-80 is the Interstate highway that most closely approximates the route of the historic Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. The highway roughly traces other historically significant travel routes in the Western United States: the Oregon Trail across Wyoming and Nebraska, the California Trail across most of Nevada and California, the first transcontinental airmail route, and except in the Great Salt Lake area, the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railroad. From near Chicago, Illinois east to near Youngstown, Ohio, Interstate 80 is a toll road, containing the majority of both the Indiana Toll Road and the Ohio Turnpike. I-80 runs concurrent with Interstate 90 from near Portage, Indiana to Elyria, Ohio. In Pennsylvania, I-80 is known as the Keystone Shortway, a non-tolled freeway that crosses rural north-central portions of the state on the way to New Jersey and New York City.More Info :
I-80 East Street View | USA Travel Tourism | Road Trip | Road Pictures | I-80 Wyoming # 2
I-80 East Street View
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I-80 Wyoming
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental limited-access highway in the United States that runs from downtown San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one of the original routes of the Interstate Highway system. Its final segment was opened to traffic in 1986. It is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, following Interstate 90. The Interstate runs through many major cities including Oakland, California, Sacramento, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, Omaha, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa and Toledo, Ohio, and passes within 10 miles (16 km) of Chicago, Cleveland, Ohio and New York City.
I-80 is the Interstate highway that most closely approximates the route of the historic Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. The highway roughly traces other historically significant travel routes in the Western United States: the Oregon Trail across Wyoming and Nebraska, the California Trail across most of Nevada and California, the first transcontinental airmail route, and except in the Great Salt Lake area, the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railroad. From near Chicago, Illinois east to near Youngstown, Ohio, Interstate 80 is a toll road, containing the majority of both the Indiana Toll Road and the Ohio Turnpike. I-80 runs concurrent with Interstate 90 from near Portage, Indiana to Elyria, Ohio. In Pennsylvania, I-80 is known as the Keystone Shortway, a non-tolled freeway that crosses rural north-central portions of the state on the way to New Jersey and New York City.More Info :
Small towns of southeast Wyoming
Travelling through the historic towns of Bosler, Rock River and Medicine Bow Wyoming on the Lincoln Highway known as Highway 30.
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The Ames Monument - 2017 Narrow Gauge Convention
On the trip out to Denver, we stopped by the strange Ames Monument at what was at one time, the highest point on the Union Pacific. The Ames Monument has been called a 65 foot pile of steaming hubris.
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Erected in 1880, the pyramid is a monument to the Ames Brothers, Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr., Union Pacific Railroad financiers. Oliver became president of the Union Pacific, as the story goes at the insistence of Abraham Lincoln. Brother Oakes was a congressman from Massachusetts.
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From the web:
The Ames Monument is a large pyramid in Albany County, Wyoming, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and dedicated to brothers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr., Union Pacific Railroad financiers. The brothers garnered credit for connecting the nation by rail upon completion of the United States' First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. Oakes, a U.S. representative to the United States Congress from Massachusetts, asserted near total control of its construction, whereas Oliver became president of the Union Pacific Railroad (1866 - 1871).[1] In 1873 investigators implicated Oakes in fraud associated with financing of the railroad. Congress subsequently censured Oakes, who resigned in 1873.[2] He died soon thereafter.
The Ames Monument marked the highest point on the transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet (2,514 m] However, Union Pacific Railroad Company twice relocated the tracks further south, causing the town of Sherman that arose near the monument to become a ghost town.
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The audacity of building a transcontinental railroad in the 1860s was today's equivalent of the mission to Mars: Big, expensive and impossible, according to University of Wyoming historian Phil Roberts. President Abraham Lincoln reportedly told Oakes Ames that if he could get the transcontinental railroad built then he would be the most remembered man of the century. Lincoln personally recruited Oakes after progress by and financial support for Credit Mobilier of America, the construction company charged with building the railroad, ground to a halt. The Ames brothers succeeded where others failed and completed the transcontinental railway. However, in 1873 charges of financial fraud were leveled at Oakes, tarnishing his and the Union Pacific Railroad Company's reputation.
Public outcry towards Oakes and other Kings of Frauds associated with scandal threatened the Ames family reputation and the Ames Company that dated back to 1774 when the company started making steel-edged shovels.[5] The Ames Company later sold axes and shovels to miners during the California Gold Rush.[7] The company continued its heritage as earth movers by supplying the government shovels during the Civil War, for excavating the Panama Canal, for mining Pennsylvania coal fields, and for digging the New York City Subway.[5]
Image of the Ames Monument new Landmark signage 1 of 3.
Image of the Ames Monument new Landmark signage 2 of 3.
Image of the Ames Monument new Landmark signage 3 of 3.
Memory of the financial scandal that surfaced in 1873 had not been forgotten when the Union Pacific Railroad Company built the monument honoring the Ames brothers during 1881-1882.[6] The Union Pacific Railroad Board of Directors voted in 1875 to erect the grand Ames Monument, in part to help reclaim some of the company's luster lost during implications of fraud leveled earlier at Oakes Ames.[2] Union Pacific stockholders subsequently authorized the construction at a meeting held in Boston on March 10, 1875.[1]
The Norcross Brothers of Worcester, Massachusetts built the monument, employing some 85 workers who lived on site, where reportedly no liquor or gambling was allowed.[1] Workers cut the stone for the pyramid from a granite outcropping common in the area. They then used oxen teams to skid the stone a half-mile to the work site. The rough-faced granite blocks used to construct the monument in many cases weigh several tons.
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Workers constructed the pyramid about 300 yards south of the tracks on a small knoll. When completed in 1882, the Ames Monument stood 300 feet (91 m) south of, and 32 feet (9.8 m) above, the highest elevation of the original tracks of Union Pacific transcontinental railroad at 8,247 feet (2,514 m). President Rutherford B. Hayes underscored the importance of the transcontinental railroad and thereby the Ames brothers by attending the monument's dedication ceremony.
Old Highway 30 centinial ride
Traveling the Columbia River Highway via the old highway in a 1930 Ford Pickup.
Salt Lake City Utah to Cheyenne Wyoming Driving on Interstate 80 Sunrise
Interstate 80 (I-80) is a transcontinental limited-access highway in the United States that runs from downtown San Francisco, California to Teaneck, New Jersey in the New York City Metropolitan Area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one of the original routes of the Interstate Highway system. Its final segment was opened to traffic in 1986. It is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States, following Interstate 90. The Interstate runs through many major cities including Oakland, California, Sacramento, California, Salt Lake City, Utah, Omaha, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa and Toledo, Ohio, and passes within 10 miles (16 km) of Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio and New York City, New York.
I-80 is the Interstate highway that most closely approximates the route of the historic Lincoln Highway, the first road across America. The highway roughly traces other historically significant travel routes in the Western United States: the Oregon Trail across Wyoming and Nebraska, the California Trail across most of Nevada and California, the first transcontinental airmail route, and except in the Great Salt Lake area, the entire route of the First Transcontinental Railroad. From near Chicago, Illinois east to near Youngstown, Ohio, Interstate 80 is a toll road, containing the majority of both the Indiana Toll Road and the Ohio Turnpike. I-80 runs concurrent with Interstate 90 from near Portage, Indiana to Elyria, Ohio. In Pennsylvania, I-80 is known as the Keystone Shortway, a non-tolled freeway that crosses rural north-central portions of the state on the way to New Jersey and New York City.
After crossing Utah's western border in Wendover, I-80 crosses the desolate Bonneville Salt Flats west of the Great Salt Lake. The longest stretch between exits on an Interstate Highway is located between Wendover and Knolls, with 37 miles (60 km) between those exits. This portion of I-80, crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert, is extremely flat and straight, dotted with large warning signs about driver fatigue and drowsiness.
East of the salt flats, I-80 passes the southern edge of Great Salt Lake and continues on through Salt Lake City, where it merges with I-15 for 3 miles (4.8 km) before entering the Wasatch Mountains east of the city. It ascends Parley's Canyon and passes within a few miles of Park City as it follows a route through the mountains towards the junction with the eastern terminus of the western section of I-84. From the junction it continues up Echo Canyon and on towards the border with Wyoming, near Evanston.
The route of the Utah section of I-80 is defined in Utah Code Annotated § 72-4-113(10).[2]
In Wyoming, I-80 reaches its maximum elevation of 8,640 feet (2,633 m) above sea level[3] at Sherman Summit, near Buford, which at 8,000 feet is the highest community on I-80. Farther west in Wyoming, the interstate passes through the dry Red Desert and over the Continental Divide. In a way, the highway crosses the Divide twice, since two ridges of the Rocky Mountains split in Wyoming, forming the Great Divide Basin, from which surface water cannot drain, but can only evaporate.
Union Pacific 4014 Return to Cheyenne
Less than 2 hours from home the Big Boy rolls thru Bushnell, Nebraska on the final day of the month long Great Race across the mid west as seen from the Lincoln Highway just a few miles from the Wyoming state line. We have a few crossings a meet with 8 locos one was the UP 1989 Rio Grande heritage unit, a close chase with a drone, a roll by the old elevator in Bushnell and crossing Lodgepole creek it is not the Mississippi river but it is the longest creek in the world being crossed by the largest steam locomotive in the world. Filmed entirely in Kimball county Nebraska where trains pass by daily but steam is kind of rare these days & Thanks for watching info on Kimball County see
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