Coast to Coast in 48 Hours, Documentary, 1929 IMDB

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sixcyl FR

2024-01-26 18:42

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sixcyl FR

2024-01-28 11:39

Aircraft at https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Coast_to_Coast_in_48_Hours .

GodzillaFan54 CA

2024-01-28 14:13

Across the entire United States in 48 hours by car in 1929? Is that possible even today?

The very first road trip across America was in 1903, carried out by two men in a 1903 Winton touring car. They started on the West coast and the exursion took 63 days, 12 hours, and 30 seconds. In part due to very few service stations in the West coast, frequent breakdowns which required parts from Winton's factory needing to be shipped by train, bad weather, and non-existent roads. Despite this, they still beat two other teams; one for Oldsmobile, using a brand-new Curved Dash, and Packard, using a Model C nicknamed "Old Pacific" and both teams had full backing and support from their respective companies. The trip slowly got easier as it went on; in California, self-propelled cars were practically non-existent to the point where the Winton was the first car a lot of people had ever seen.

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CougarTim US

2024-01-28 22:35

https://waynoka.org/tat-transcontinental-air-transport/

Quote From the Oklahoma Historical Soceity

In 1929 Waynoka, Oklahoma, became part of an innovative concept in coast-to-coast transportation. The founders of Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), incorporated in May 1928, were businessmen led by Clement M. Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane and Motors Company, and including Charles A. Lindbergh. They envisioned a combined air-and-rail service to take passengers across the country from New York to Los Angeles in forty-eight hours. Lindbergh laid out the route, making Waynoka a plane-train stop between Wichita, Kansas, and Clovis, New Mexico.

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Crossing America, travelers would sleep in Pullman cars on trains by night and fly on TAT’s Ford Tri-Motor planes by day. On July 7, 1929, the inaugural Pennsylvania Railroad train left New York City with passengers bound for Columbus, Ohio. There on July 8 they transferred to TAT. They made several more stops before arriving at Waynoka where they boarded the Santa Fe train for Clovis. From Clovis on July 9 they flew on TAT into Los Angeles.

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TAT’s influence on Waynoka existed for only a brief, twenty-one month period. In the first eighteen months of operation the company lost $2.7 million. In October 1930 the air service merged with Western Air Express to become Trans-continental and Western Airlines (TWA), which announced a new route from Kansas City, Kansas, by way of Tulsa, Oklahoma. This ended operations at Waynoka.


The current record for New York to Los Angeles by car is 27 hours 25 minutes. This is only possible by traveling at illegal speeds.

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