Looking Back at the Lincoln Highway in Dekalb County, Illinois-- Part 3

From October 12, 1935:

"Dekalb, from the air, is a beautiful carpet of the leaves with the roof of occasional houses poking above the treetops to break the monotony of the green blanket.

There is a long ribbon cutting through the middle of the green with tiny black specks moving along, to be noted as the Lincoln Highway, and there is another and straighter line of four bright metal strips with a black something belching smoke rolling along to indicate the railroad.

Those are all spot impressions gained from floating over the city at an elevation of about 1,200 feet yesterday afternoon. On the first ride over Dekalb in the Goodyear lighter-than-air craft which was brought to this city in connection with the Harvest festival of the veterans of Foreign Wars, an idea of the layout was obtained that hours of study on a map of the similar territory would never give."

Even back then, the Lincoln was something to behold. And, the two sets of railroad tracks and trains described in the article? Who can imagine a DeKalb without lots and lots and lots of trains pulling through?

An Interesting Look Back. --RoadDog