Where was the old LINCOLN HIGHWAY as it passed through Reno, Nevada? Not where you might think!

[@Jimbeam151]

Thank you.

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks for stopping by!

[@jimh598]

Great production. I love the historic road segments. Thanks for all your hard work

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks for watching!

[@jbawden]

Amazing video, probably my favorite that you have done. I've looked down on that section of road at the end of your video for decades thinking it was the old road, thanks for verifying! Well researched, excellent work.

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks! There are more sections but I had to call it a day sometime!

[@michaely7469]

Hey Steveo, I watch your videos all the time. Reno is my birthplace and I've never lived elsewhere. (72). Thank You for your hard work and sharing your love of history. You do an amazing job!

[@SteveTRYK]

I thank you for watching and sharing you comments!

[@RandyArmstrong-jw8hq]

very well produced as always

[@SteveTRYK]

Its a labor of love - thanks!

[@anthonyholben2802]

Somebody caught a photo in this and sent it to me. Nice work and love the paintings as well. Skyler's Dog at the Garage was pretty cool! Keep on educating us. 😊🎶

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks! I have a video of that whole gig - that clip of the sign was from that...

[@chrish7694]

I was in Reno when the trucker destroyed the old Mayberry Bridge. IIRC we would go that way to avoid some traffic on 4th street. Unfortunately my memory is fading.

[@NBZW]

Original highway passed thru Placerville and Folsom, California into Sacramento. When I was a kid, a number of markers stating,”Lincoln Highway “ were still in place. Actually much of the highway followed the Pony Express route. Many changes were made later on however.

[@Britcarjunkie]

Thank you for researching the old road! I've often looked at the area between Derby Dam and Fernley north of I-80, and wondered if sections of roadway there, was part of the original highway, or an old railroad grade, or just an old mining operation.

[@mikediehl1468]

Thank you for your time putting all of this together! 😀

[@SteveTRYK]

My pleasure!

[@SoloPilot6]

13:40 -- FYI, there are a lot of places where Lincoln, Victory and other early highways divided into two separate roadbeds, one for each direction, running parallel but as much as half a mile or more apart. Local terrain sometimes made it easier and thus less expensive to do this than to try to engineer a single, wide roadbed.

[@1800luce]

Interesting history lesson! Thank you for your efforts!

[@SteveTRYK]

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers!

[@rockwithjerry]

Nice job! Great research. Looking forward to the next video.

[@MedusaJellyFish300]

This is another wonderful video to watch and enjoy on this cold winter night, but thank you for making this night very fun..🌙

[@SteveTRYK]

Glad I could brighten your night!

[@davepurkiss2409]

Great episode! Keep them coming, and I like your comments about how long the editing process actually takes. Some people really don’t appreciate all the work it takes to produce a video. Great work on a very informative video.

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks for watching to the end! Segment #205! Cheers!

[@sierrapacnone1998]

Well done. I love learning more about Reno history. As a fisherman I love to walk the old abandoned road along the river.

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks!

[@renodemona]

Great episode! Old road routings and re-routings are so interesting to track through time and places that may or may not still even exist.

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks!

[@TJK775]

absolutely love your videos! keep it up!!!!

[@SteveTRYK]

That's the plan - thanx!

[@williammetcalf7239]

There are many original segments of the Lincoln Highway still in existence and it is fun the drive on them and to wonder what it all looked like a hundred years or more ago.

[@Dr_Bombay]

what a lot of work this one was! appreciate the history lesson. who knew that Riverside Drive was officially part of the Lincoln Hwy? not me! also, the ending is perfect. *chef's kiss*

[@SteveTRYK]

I was genuinely surprised when I saw that map!

[@denisedavies5326]

Awesome video. So much work. Thank you 😊

[@SteveTRYK]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@RoadkillCustoms]

Fascinating and complete! Love the drone footage!

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks! I had to take off and land on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper!

[@jeffreyellison2252]

The red rock/red colored roadway 'made on-site' segment was an astute observation!

[@BarbaraM-ro3xq]

Very interesting! Great research done and information gathered and presented! I love old historic alignments of roads!

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks - so do I!

[@VictorC-f6y]

Interesting highway history

[@maeve44]

Excellent narration and fascinating information. Thank you for all your effort and for creating such a quality video.

[@SteveTRYK]

Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MightyHumbleBumble]

Outstanding video! I love finding old Lincoln highway sections when I'm traveling and your video gave me that same joy of discovery.

[@grumpyoldretiredcop8382]

Outstanding and educational video! I'm planning on leading a history tour of the Lincoln Highway next year and this video will be a great help. Thanks for posting it!

[@SteveTRYK]

Cool! Thanks!

[@Juliereign1]

So informative, interesting this is a great video! Thank you for the time and research you spend on your subjects, I have watched several. This one is the favorite because I just finished a job at the top the Somette Prkwy. I love Verdi and am fascinated with its history too

[@SteveTRYK]

Awesome, thank you!

[@rbevans4581]

Your research is pretty amazing. So many familiar sites.

[@SteveTRYK]

Thank ya sir!

[@terrystewart2070]

Wow Steve! 12 hours of editing! No wonder you present such a professional quality video! This one was really great. I love your content my friend, thank you!

[@ppgwhereeverett4412]

ANOTHER great video !! At the end, at 36:16, what is the History of that building behind you? When we come over to shop, we go by it going to the Patagonia Outlet. We always say how cool to own that ! For those that don't know, it is Truckee Riverfront property ! (with the Main Line Union Pacific running through the front yard !)

[@SteveTRYK]

That building is the former River Inn - a resort project that failed before completion in I believe the early 1980's. Someone purchased the whole thing a couple years ago and it rehabbing it as a residence - at least thats what I've heard. Thanks!

[@ghill628]

Thank you for the great video. My father who was born in 1937 and grew up in the Pittsburgh area crossed the country on the Lincoln Highway with his family when he was a child. I wonder which route he might have taken passing through Reno long before he ever thought he would call Nevada home?

[@waynepytlik9166]

Thank You. Great production.

[@jkyontz]

You deserve a beer after all that filming and editing 🍺

[@SteveTRYK]

I had one!

[@mtbalpinecounty]

💪 The old highway can still be found in great sections from Strawberry to Kyburz!..

[@SteveTRYK]

Cool - and the second reference to a strawberry in this vid! ;-)

[@Teufel66]

Great interesting show .

[@LaVaqueraMarin]

GREAT SHOW!!!

[@eddwil7]

Great video. I love our Nevada history. I found a concrete marker on the old highway near Washoe Valley. It sparked my interest in the history of Lincoln highway and confirmed it was a segment of what you referred to as the "Pioneer route" of the Lincoln highway.

[@SteveTRYK]

Cool - is it still there?

[@eddwil7]

@@SteveTRYK yes

[@paulkalff6408]

Steve! Methinks that portion of roadway by the meander has been bisected by a motor grader windrow. That would explain the vegetation in the center of the “two lanes.” 👍😎🚂

[@SteveTRYK]

There are buried line markers along the way so I think that's whats going on there... Cheers!

[@sweetwater2128]

Love the content, keep it up

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks!

[@audiepeterson3118]

Another great video, thank you!

[@SteveTRYK]

My pleasure!

[@SuperCody1124]

I love your subject matter for there is a ton of l;egend and history in Northern Nevada . Good effort on the production efforts I have done a little on my own its more work then one thinks. God Bless Thanks

[@SteveTRYK]

Much appreciated!

[@MrScratchmarks]

Excellent video Steve! Your research is very cool. Have you considered researching Derby dam or Hazen? Our whole area is filled with canals built a long time ago. Keep them vids coming buddy!

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks - was thinking about the dam when I was out there...

[@johnarduser2712]

Love episodes like this one!

[@SteveTRYK]

Glad you liked!

[@exploringwithJim]

Excellent. Also if you download GIA GPS You can geolocate yourself precisely on the 1900 and 1930 topos to pinpoint the old roads.

[@SteveTRYK]

Cool - thanks!

[@paulkalff6408]

Another very fine presentation! Keep them coming!

[@PGK357]

Mr. Steve, I IMPLORE YOU to make a video on the history of the old Boy Scout camp in Verdi, up Old Verdi Road. What a cool and mysterious area that is unfortunately fading into obscurity as time and vandals destroy the buildings. My girlfriend and I have spent hours researching the history of the Boy Scout camp, but have only seemed to find rumors.

[@blueboats]

For geeks appreciating remaining artifacts, a small stretch of the Pioneer route (50) near Carson City is now a hiking trail but is still mostly asphalt and still has one remaining roadside spring fed water basin for replenishment of radiators and people (Clear Creek canyon)

[@SteveTRYK]

I've seen that but have yet to set foot there - thanks!

[@darrellborland119]

The Lincoln Highway followed portions of UP/SP/CPRR right of ways'. Quite interesting. Thanks.

[@unr74]

Far out episode! The strawberry crash was definitely’74. I-80 was completed to Keystone at least by early ‘70. Now in addition to Carl Fisher, another pivotal character in Nevada Highwaydom was Warren ‘Snowy’ Monroe. Check it out.

[@simiamalum5487]

Fascinating. Nice video.

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks and cheers!

[@zacharycass3790]

Hey there not sure if you’ll see this but was wondering if you could do a little video on the river walk tower and the montage since both of those use to be casinos back in the day. As well as if you can get any history on the building that has the bar “the office” in it? Thank you, I really enjoy your videos

[@SteveTRYK]

Thanks and duly noted!

[@garymunson2493]

Thanks for another great video! Hard to believe you do not have a team of video people doing the assembling of your features. You could probably begin a new career as a video editor/producer!

[@SteveTRYK]

If I get enough subscribers one day, maybe I'll hire a guy or gal! ;-)

[@shangri-la-la-la]

Might I suggest a video on the history of 395.

[@SteveTRYK]

Interesting!

[@johnbogle6475]

I could be wrong but I believe that Oxbow of the Truckee (where the river curled around but is now straight) was created when the Derby dam was built (Early 1910s - 20s). This allowed for a proper reservoir and allowed both the the Railroad and the automobile road to be straightened. You can see the levees pushed up by bulldozers on the south side of I-80 (between the freeway and the current river/reservoir). I'm pretty sure the river was diverted on purpose. The original right of way for the Central Pacific Railroad 1870s was what is now Prater way which connected to the current mainline via Vista blvd at (Lillard?). Yes the Railroad's surveyors borrowed the immigrants trail along Vista blvd (there is still an industrial lead that services that area N of I-80). Before 1900s The Glendale industrial area and the Sparks rail yard was swampy and flooded often (Which is probably why the RR and Road department routs skirted to the north). I love local history. Great video. Thanks

[@SteveTRYK]

Great info! Cheers!

[@davemac1888]

👍

[@williamwatson4625]

It's even a decade older than the most well-known highway from the pre-interstate years - Route 66.

[@leohorishny9561]

I don’t know if you saw the story, recently the homes in southwest Reno on geothermal power were told the company wouldn’t continue to maintain their geothermal heating to their homes. I knew about the homes supplied that way, but I’m now interested in the history of that particular hot spring and Moana Pool, and how it came to be those homes were designed and built to heat from geothermal, the development, any other businesses or homes in that area also on geothermal, why was it not connected to NV Energy, why was Ormat involved, back when…actually the story of Ormat drilling at Steamboat Springs is a story I know little of.🤔 How many homes in the US are heated from geothermal energy?🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@SteveTRYK]

Interesting - I did see the story.

[@MrSouthwestplumber]

the river was relocated there is a book about it

[@SteveTRYK]

As I have come to find out! Cheers!

[@michaelmoynihan9297]

I was just at the end of Lincoln yesterday. Where was i?

[@SteveTRYK]

Lost? ;-)

[@michaelmoynihan9297]

@@SteveTRYK Ha Ha

[@469buck]

Ya do yer homework! Thanks.

[@SteveTRYK]

And I thought I was done with school! ;-)

[@donaldscott3921]

At least one north - south US highway doesn't end with a 1 or a 5 - US 99.

[@ToddPeterson-yn4vt]

Have you ever partied with Wonderhussy?

[@SteveTRYK]

No, but if you can arrange it, I will consider it!

[@ToddPeterson-yn4vt]

I really appreciate your knowledge and straight forward videos!

[@ToddPeterson-yn4vt]

Where can I see you jam on the guitar?

[@jeffreyellison2252]

Misdemeanor General Stupidity? That's a thing? Great. Now I've got to travel thru the rest of my life looking over my shoulder...

[@SteveTRYK]

I love that phrase!

[@TwiztidIndica]

Wait. Strawberry Coke was a thing?

[@SteveTRYK]

Apparently! :-)

[@DIGGER19860]

that petro truck stop is always infested with lot lizards.

[@SteveTRYK]

I had to Google that to see what those are!

[@lutomson3496]

he doesnt tell the real history and the replacement that has failed

[@Lifesizemortal]

Care to share then?

[@johnmarzy]

That's a very ambiguous statement - please elaborate if you were trying to make a point.