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Scandinavian America Line

14. September 202215. September 2022 3 Comments

Scandinavian America Line (in Scandinavia “Skandinavien-Amerika Linien”) was a Danish steamship company, owned and run by DFDS “Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab” (Loosely translated: The United Steamship-Company in Danish) The company originated as the Thingvalla Line, the first steamship company in Denmark, to transport emigrants directly from Denmark to America.DFDS bought the company in 1898. Scandinavian America […]

Georgia

Blue Bird Body Company

19. June 202220. June 2022 No Comments

The Blue Bird Body Company was established in 1932 in Fort Valley, Georgia, but started a few years earlier, in the Perry, Georgia Ford Dealership, where Albert Luce sold a Ford T with a wooden bus body to a customer in 1925. Unfortunately the bus wasn’t built for the rural roads in Georgia, so it […]

North America

North American railway companies

18. June 202216. June 2022 No Comments

The time used to cross the vast expanse of North America was greatly reduced after North American railway companies began building tracks across prairies and mountain ranges. United States of America Illinois Central Railroad New York Central Railroad Indicted for breaking Inter-State Commerce laws together with Pennsylvania Railroad, Vacuum Oil Company and Standard Oil in […]

Mississippi

Yazoo River Railroad Swing Bridge

18. June 202216. June 2022 2 Comments

Commissioned by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, and built by the Bates & Rogers Construction Company in 1944. One of the many bridges, used by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad and the Illinois Central Railroad. Today the bridge is permanently open, and the tracks have long been removed. It can be seen up […]

Illinois

Bates & Rogers Construction Co.

18. June 202220. June 2022 1 Comment

Bates & Rogers Construction Co. were based in Chicago, Illinois. The construction company is known for building a series of bridges and tunnels. Constructions: Bridges Bates & Rogers built a long row of bridges. The Yazoo swing railroad bridge Built in 1944 for the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad. If you have any information about […]

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Indiana

Deterling Manufacturing Co.

11. January 202211. January 2022 No Comments

Deterling Manufacturing Company was established in 1918 in Tipton, Indiana, USA The manufacturing company was lead by Philip A Deterling. In the 1920’s it produced “Talking Machines”, that were mechanical gramophone players, nicely hidden in a wallnut cabinet with space for 78 records. The Talking machines were cranked by hand, unless you could afford the […]

Tennessee

Wagner Pencil Company

16. December 202116. December 2021 1 Comment

The Wagner Pencil Company uses eastern white pine for it’s pencils, and not cedar like most of it’s American competitors. Wagner is still in production, and has specialized itself in making pencils with digital art for corporations, as well as scented pencils.They have also made pencils that change colour, at different temperatures. Their largest customer […]

Missouri

Chain of Rocks Bridge

14. September 202116. June 2022 1 Comment

Most people see the Chain of Rocks Bridge, while driving the world famous Route 66, as the bridge crosses the Mississippi river. The bridge has a very distinct 22 degree bend, in the middle, that gave truck and bus drivers a few surprises during it’s active years. The bridge was opened in 1929, and closed […]

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Route 66

5. August 202115. June 2022 1 Comment

Route 66 is one of the most popular road trip destinations in the world, with thousands of people travelling from Chicago to LA every year, on everything from bicycles to RV campers. Route-66 is also called “The Mother road”, and was the first interstate road in America that was covered with asphalt from end to […]

Closed Gasconade River Bridge" on Route 66

Missouri

The Gasconade River Bridge

4. August 202116. June 2022 1 Comment

The Gasconade River Bridge was built in the 1920s, and was a part of the old Route 66, between Chicago Illinois and Los Angeles in California. In December 2014 the bridge was closed permanently, after having been degraded as a emergency bypass road for several years. During the flooding of Central Missouri in December 2015, […]

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