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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
This Opel is one of the first snowploughs, from “Øveraasen”, a company that still exists today, creating huge snow removal systems for use on highways, railroads and in airports. The company was started by two brothers, Hans and Even Øveraasen, in 1923. From early on, the company produced snowploughs for almost any kind of transport. […]
