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Subject: The Once Mighty Railroads Were Not Looking Around the Curve.
Date: 2 Sep 2003 14:50:36 -0600

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Evidently, the Burlington did not visualize the day when good roads--on which the automobile would travel with the occupants going anywhere they wished, and at the particular time when they wanted to go--would lead to their dramatic loss of popularity by the 1930's.

This clipping is from the Fremont County Sun of April 13, 1905:

"Good Roads Train to Go Far. Special of Burlington and Northern Pacific Lines Will Travel to the Pacific Coast".--Highway building will be taught in cities and villages from Lake Michigan to the Pacific coast by the Burlington - Northern Pacific - Lewis & Clark good roads special which will leave Chicago May 3. The special will be under charge of the two railroads and the National Good Roads association. Stops will be made at thirty cities, and lectures will be given on the need of better highways and the way to secure them.

The first part of the special's trip will be over the lines of the Burlington Railroad. The train will enter on the Northern Pacific lines at Billings, Mont., continuing by this road to Portland, Ore., where the final meeting will be held at the Lewis & Clark exposition in June.--Chicago Tribune, April 5.

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