Show EARLY vl m or Of TA N r R RM M EN AE UI Modern I Gas Truck Tract l I North Worthy Y Successor of F Firs Fin ns FinI I Crudely Deth Designed cd S Ste Powered Po Wagon Wao-on b J 1 Belated d realization of transporting I visions which the tho creators of ot the ate etea wagon had for Cor It it Is re seen n by sh bt truck advocates in the transportation role rolo the motor truck to b assuming tc t i iThe da day The men mOn who In the early pr to o 0 the nineteenth century brought fort fori the tho steam wagon Labored moored long a as ad spent much money ex experimenting be before before fore tore they gave ave way to the conviction convict that its 0 transportation n range must b la lan r VI fixed by D D C steel I runo raffle 1 A monument in Nebraska City CUr toof to te teor teli of or one of ot their last ventures Th Ii monument stands on the spot ot when his bia last venture bad had its start and aDd oni owl seven miles mUes from where it ended ended- TD Th Inscription on it reads 11 STEAM WAGON Il Invented and Owned by br f Joseph Joaeph R. R Brown of ot Manufactured by John Sohn A. A Reed of ot New York J Landed at Nebraska City from Steam West Wind July 12 12 1862 1865 j r Started for Denver Self sctt July 22 2 2 1862 and Abandoned S Seren Senn Ten MI II Out Few of ot the th scores of persona W took part In tho In tho great g welcoming re reception caption given Glyen at al Nebra Nebraska ka City the debarkation of ot the big wagon waon an anrode an anrode anrode rode In the string of or wa wagons ons It haul baul through the streets ets 0 of the town th th da day are allo alivo new They believed I would make mako scheduled trips betwee I Denver er and Nebraska City big bli loads and solving tho l local short ho haul transportation problem r r f-r a Too Roach Bough 1 a crank crank- crank chatting which brok ro when it was a n tow fow miles milca out of It H maiden trip spelled Its doom It w left leU on tho the roadside until a mill own who wanted its boiler paid to It II owner who hl had spent thousands on I IThe IThe II The roads w were ro too much for Its ita del dell cato parts and its weight w was too m mUc c for tor tho the roads Steel rails had to co con to tho the territory before its ILs of ot the for tor tod 1 U could tako up part A I Now the motor trucK bas naJ V tom J take t tho short haul Job on th the tho ways And it it is doln doing so o well wen th Ih trap trans n ono of or the country's foremost tr authorities C. C CA A 1 operation of or t tb of or Distant director U. U S. S r railway administration that t f ft hims himself t recently as aa believing steel r ra ra tt when tho the t time I mo may como H n expensively operate opera t of ot light traffic short lines will bo ho torn up an And JU lb tb rl rights of or wa way converted Into nl h nw bw for tor trucks Other Other- transportation t e by ad ports and mall many ship ca cates tes express tho the same am trend trena thought t. t t I The greater possibilities of or Ib motor truck on tho the highways w b with tho the steam carrier carr compared for tor t branch br lino line rails ralls are Indicated whole United States by citing writes 1 IL x Fa Fachler for tor a typical state snip ship b by y tN chief of ot tho the Firestone bureau at Akron Ohio touching on oa ceder use uso of or the tho motor tru truck k as a a. athe the railroads In In Wisconsin the ther road mileage Is 1000 miles The h b hwa Is mileS wa way mileage Replacement of some somo of or 1 the tho eer this railroad mile performed on wherever it represents US' US light branch lines which are oj operated t tAnus the tho main Jin lIn line heavy y expense to put art ot of w 1 small and a P D 0 only part will l do i do-i i the motor truck probably Its bigger ger blOT r and aaa m In J few more years Important function lies In its It Db abU J the P D between to fill up tho the gaps bl hi ot of s mil ducer cn en the tho on the me U- U ways wars an and tho the stations 1 r miles of railway will not only r rBy f doing this It By By bra bd also the main male line railway but farm f arm Gloa nearby producing tho the f. f I It t I is op oD p When hen the tho city market S ij J Jing faring far of ot routes the W In ing on a network farm ot of the tho will send more pro products should consumer market and the tho th lb fit tit b by tho the fuller markets I created o of t Thus Anus is id It that the tho and nd ye yet stu tu motor tru truck truck-a k-a k lighter and carrr 1 Ise vehicle vehicle are arc taking up tw tho fulfillment tho the visions Which had tor i t. t tor of ot the steam wagon |