Transportation

<p><span class="deck">Snowshed crews on the Central Pacific, battling blizzards and snowslides, built “the longest house in the world”</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> “Come and see the boiling cloud,” said a woman on the ground; aloft, the slender <span class="typestyle"> Shenandoah</span> headed straight into the eye of the vicious squall </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Teetotaling twin brothers built the most wonderful car of their era, and its day of glory may not be over yet</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> TODAY, NEARLY HALF</lead_in> a million men and women serve two-thirds of the country in a crucial volunteer service that began only recently, and only because a nine-year-old boy had witnessed a drowning.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Model T Ford made the world we live in. On the 100th anniversary of the company Henry Ford founded, his biographer Douglas Brinkley tells how.</span></p>

<p>What the future president learned during a coast-to-coast military motor expedition would later transform America. </p>

<p>Few roads were even paved when Alice Ramsey and three friends became the first women to drive coast to coast in 1909.</p>