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A Maximum of Good Results: Martin Dodge and the Good Roads Trains

By Richard F. Weingroff

Table of Contents

• Who Was Martin Dodge?
• Chairman, Ohio Good Roads Commission
• Road Building in Ohio
• A Malthusian Comparison
• On To Washington
• Steel-Track Wagon Roads
• Director, Office of Public Road Inquiries
• Era of Transformation
• Death of President McKinley
• Colonel W. H. Moore and the National Good Roads Association
• Horatio S. Earle
• Good Roads Trains
• Southern Railway Good Roads Train
  • Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  • Asheville, North Carolina
  • Greeneville, Tennessee
  • Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • Birmingham, Alabama
  • Mobile, Alabama
  • Montgomery, Alabama
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Greenville, South Carolina
  • Columbus, Georgia
  • Augusta, Georgia
  • Columbia, South Carolina
  • Charleston, South Carolina
  • Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Lynchburg, Virginia
  • Danville, Virginia
  • Richmond, Virginia
  • Charlottesville, Virginia
• Results of the Southern Railway Good Roads Train
• The Great Northern Good Roads Train
• James Abbott on the Great Northern Railway Good Roads Train
• Martin Dodge's Other Initiatives
• National Road Inventory
• Fighting for Federal-Aid
• The Brownlow-Latimer Bill
• 58th Congress, 3rd Session
• Congressional Revenge on Martin Dodge
• Logan Page Takes Charge
• Logan Page and the Road Improvement Trains
• Martin Dodge's Later Years
• Testifying on the Townsend Bill
• Looking Back