This has probably been posted before.

I have always thought it was Route 66 but it is not.

Enjoy the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIW2-bH84u4

Here in Iowa that's Highway 30, about 15 miles north of me. It runs parallel to - and north of - I-80 from Clinton (on the Mississippi) west to Missouri Valley (on the Missouri).

https://iowadot.gov/autotrails/lincolnhighway

We lived 1 mile south of the highway and used it all the time to go to town. Every town on the route had gas stations and motels, my uncle had both and made good money. The highway ran through the towns then, now it’s mostly bypassed most and is a four lane about 90 percent.

One of my high school teachers was involved in several groups documenting the Lincoln Highway. In fact a portion of it runs less than a quarter mile north of where I live.

She would drive an early Austin American car to the school on occasion - so short that it could be parked in a perpendicular orientation between two other cars parked parallel.

She re-introduced an early Lincoln Highway book in the mid-80's. As I understand it, she was the 1st state Lincoln Highway Director.

https://books.google.com/books...n%20protteau&f=false

Fascinating. I'm watching it as I type this.

I lived less than a mile from it in Illinois.

There is another contender in that race: US-6. It is a 2-lane highway fully worthy of a coast-to-coast drive.

flashguy

I live a block from where the Lincoln hiway goes through due alameda county east of San Francisco. A few years ago they had a parade down that stretch. The town heritage guild has ownership of an old motor garage and machine shop that was around Before the hiway was built and has a mini Lincoln hiway display set up. There’s a good PBS doc about the Lincoln hiway. From Times Square to Lincoln Park in SF. Most interesting factoid is that it was privately funded by the auto and oil companies

I live about 10-15 miles south of the Lincoln Highway in central Pennsylvania. Have travelled parts of it for the past 30+ years. Think the larger towns along the route are spaced about a days horse ride apart.

Excellent video.

Another documentary called "A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway" from Pittsburgh's WQED.

Living only a mile or so from it as a kid in Central Iowa, it was our usual Saturday morning routine to ride our bikes to where the street stopped and became a huge dirt field. Then we’d ride that field to the highway, sit on a couple of big dirt mounds and “pull” the cord at every semi we would see pass before going off to play for the day.

The original highway has been bypassed, but every now and then when I go home to visit dad, I drive it just to see what has changed.

Cool video...thanks for sharing!

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
Here in Iowa that's Highway 30, about 15 miles north of me.

Dad and mom and their parents and g-parents grew up in a Pennsylvania steel town adjacent to Rt 30 "Lincoln Highway". Nearby it is called Lancaster Pike and labeled Rt 30.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrbill345:
Another documentary called "A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway" from Pittsburgh's WQED.

Rick Sebak does great work.

I've watched that, will watch, again. My best friend lived just off the hiway in Metuchen, NJ, he was visiting us and we went to Ely, NV, where we were on the hiway. I told him the story, I'll have to send him the link.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
There is another contender in that race: US-6. It is a 2-lane highway fully worthy of a coast-to-coast drive.

flashguy

Love US6, it goes through my son's town. If you time it right it can be a very relaxing drive.

Never realized that I’ve been on several sections of this highway across the country. Thanks for sharing this.

I live about a quarter mile north of the Lincoln Highway in North East IN.
I travel it very often.

Another alternate to the coast-to-coast drive is US-50 https://www.roadtripusa.com/the-loneliest-road/ .
Running coast-to-coast through the heart of America on a 3,200-mile odyssey from sea to shining sea, US-50 passes through a dozen different states and four state capitals, as well as the nation’s capital, Washington DC. Along the route are some of the country’s most magnificent landscapes: the Sierra Nevada and the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, the endless farmlands of the Great Plains, and the desiccated deserts of Utah and Nevada.

I drove a lot of it in 2012 in Colorado and Kansas. Very scenic and not heavily traveled -- nice road. Neat Veterans' Memorial at Lakin, Kansas (M-60 tank); Weisbrod Air Museum at Pueblo, Colorado; Monarch Pass, Colorado (Continental Divide). Another good reference about what to see is https://unusualplaces.org/u-s-...icas-loneliest-road/.

flashguy

After bisecting Missouri from Kansas City to St. Louis, US-50 crosses the Mississippi River into a much older and more settled landscape, ...

That's always the route I travel to Jefferson City, whenever I need to be in the Missouri capitol.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
There is another contender in that race: US-6. It is a 2-lane highway fully worthy of a coast-to-coast drive.

flashguy

That goes right thru my town (Bettendorf). To cross the Mississippi it's "co-located" with I-74, then it returns to local streets and heads west.