Walkerton Transportation History: Rails, Roads and Airports

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Walkerton Transportation History: Rails, Roads and Airports

Rails, roads, airfields and the automobile.

Transportation

§ 24Walkerton Transportation: Two Railroads Built It, a Third Crossed ItWalkerton is a railroad town before it is anything else: its streets were laid out by railroad surveyors on the strictest of grids, its first store stood by the station, and for most of a century three railroads crossed…21 entry pages § 43Airports and Walkerton: Four StripsThe banked text counts three grass strips; the FAA-record record carries four, and this section prints the four. Working from the federal record as compiled from FAA data: Dreessen Field (17II) , turf, 2,600 feet…§ 74Walkerton and the AutomobileAutomobiles — the Maker Test, the First Claims, and the Street6 entry pages

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Source: Walkerton Transportation History: Rails, Roads and Airports, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/topics/transportation/

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