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I couldn't decide whether this Wikipedia entry for National Old Trails Highway belonged in the National Old Trails Road / Santa Fe Trail / U.S. 66 or National Road / U.S. 40 forum so I decided to post it here and let the moderator sort it out.

 

National Old Trails Highway, also known as the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, was established in 1912, and became part of the National Auto Trail system in the United States. It was 2,448 miles long and stretched from Chicago, Illinois, to California. Much of the route follows the old National Road and the Santa Fe Trail.

 

There's more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Old_Trails_Road

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I couldn't decide whether this Wikipedia entry for National Old Trails Highway belonged in the National Old Trails Road / Santa Fe Trail / U.S. 66 or National Road / U.S. 40 forum so I decided to post it here and let the moderator sort it out.

There's more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Old_Trails_Road

 

So this is hazing the new kid on the block, huh. Kind of an initiation to see if he knows his stuff.

 

This looks like this piece is about the National Old Trails Road, not the National Road or the National Pike. Seems to me like you have your work cut out!

 

BTY in my prior life I learned never to edit the student newspaper. If you do, then you become responsible for the content. That applies here. (But I do like that part about the hitherto unknown National Auto Trail system. I knew it! Those guys did have a secret society! No doubt a slip of the caps key.)

 

Keep the Show on the Road!

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I have corrected a couple of things (minor details) in Wikipedia and was briefly tempted to make an attempt here. If I hadn't already talked myself out of it, I believe your comment about editing the student newspaper would have done it. Yep, when you think about it, Wikipedia is a lot like the student newspaper. I just now thought of editing it and simply changing the 2448 to 2449 or some such and see where it goes from there... but I've talked myself out of that, too.

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