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Lincoln Highway vs US 30 Photos at ClickaSnap.com When the highway numbering schema was created many different named roads were consolidated under the new monickers.  Click for Larger Image The Lincoln Highway began as a major east-west highway connecting Atlantic City, NJ with San Francisco. It traversed 12 states.   When the numbered road designations was introduced, the western end-point became Astoria, OR and only the first 9 states remained the same counting from the east. California, Nevada and Utah were replaced by Oregon and Idaho as part of the route.    The US 30 route is 3073 miles. Throughout the decades many sections of the original highways have been widened or bypassed to increase traffic volumes and facilitate faster heavier vehicles. The needs of the trucking industry drove the development of flatter profiles and larger radius curves. Tunnels and bridges needed greater carrying capacities.   Click for Larger Image My idea of travel is to run the old alignment

Church Architecture A photo album of Lens4aneEye at ClickaSnap.com by Robert Carlson   I am not a particularly religious person. That doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the structures old and new, in use of abandoned, in good shape or dilapidated. Every building once held services and help mold the faith and emotions of its congregation.    Church in Braddock, PA Men have built towering cathedrals to their gods and built humble houses of worship with    whatever resources and labor they could muster.  Men come and men go. The Earth abides. This paraphrase is derived of Ecclesiastes. Church buildings come and go, too,and the faith abides.   My collection of church imagery combines the love of a place with the memories of the people who prayed, sang, laughed and cried. They wed, baptized and said their final goodbyes inside these halls and chapels.    Mountain Top in Costa Rica A building is after all only a structure of wood, glass. Steel and masonry until the people endow it w