Feb 25, 1908 Chicago, IL It took 13 days, 6 hours, and 10 minutes for the Flyer to cover 1,403…
Feb 20, 1908 Wawaka, IN Without roads outside of the cities, the Flyer often resorted to straddling the railroads. Riding…
Feb. 19, 1908 Endless Snow Faced with daily blizzards, it would have been easy to simply give up. After all,…
Feb 18, 1908 Toledo, OH Rounding Lake Erie-Blizzards and record snowfall made conditions brutal. In 1908 there were no roads;…
Feb 17, 1908 Erie, PA With the Flyer overtaking the Italian Zust which had failed to stop in Buffalo as…
Feb. 16, 1908 Buffalo, NY The Flyer arrived first in its home town, as motorist waited at the city line…
Feb 12, 1908 Times Square 250,000 people gathered in Times Square to see the start of a race around the…
February 1908 The 1908 New York to Paris Race story actually begins with the involvement of two famous Roosevelts. President…
Now usually when you think of “old hotels”, visions of antiquated often run-down properties come to mind. Not so with…
After passing Stewart Air Force Base we came to the town of Newburg, NY and a place called Orange County…