Random question: Is there anything in the mod referencing the Lincoln Highway?
I rewatched
Noah Caldwell-Gervais's Lincoln Highway travelogue earlier today, and a few of the themes in that video kept rattling around in my head. The decrepit ruins along the more abandoned roadways mixed with the symbolic importance of the highway itself—a motorway linking the East Coast to the West, connecting the USA's biggest city to its second-biggest (narrowly missing the third, because even in the early 20th century Chicago traffic was too bad to recommend anyone drive
through the city). To this day, mementos of the Lincoln Highway remain along its path, ranging from near-ubiquitous concrete markers to the occasional bust of Abraham Lincoln.
It seems like a natural fit for
something in the USA, a super-pilgrimage for Americanists, or a long event chain for imitating the Transcontinental Motor Convoy (though probably without the motors), something that lets an American use the Lincoln Highway as proof of their familiarity with or domination over old America. And it's well before the official(?) allohistorical cutoff date of WW2-ish, so it's canon-kosher.
I checked the subreddit for anything mentioning the Lincoln Highway, but only found
this fanfic (and a couple posts which have the words "Lincoln" and "highway" in separate paragraphs). The forum threads didn't turn up anything including the phrase "Lincoln highway". So I'm guessing that if there is some reference to the Lincoln Highway, it's not very prominent?
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