Central Technology Center of Drumright, Okla., a member of the Oklahoma Trucking Association, responded to the museum s request for assistance in bringing a portion of Route 66 to the nation s capital. CEO Walter McCormick Jr. The original Route 66 not only helped build America, it helped build our industry too. The exhibition will include topics on transcontinental railroads, vacation travel, school buses, container ships and the interstate highways. The National Museum of American History traces American heritage through cultural, social, scientific, and technological exhibitions. Collections are displayed in settings that recapture and interpret the American experience from colonial times to the present.
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