page_title: Roy Stone
section_title: Postbellum
hierarchical_section_title: Roy Stone / Postbellum
caption_attribution_description: English: General LeRoy Stone's steam monorail was built at the Centennial Exposition marking the USA's 100th anniversary in 1876. It connected the Horticultural Hall with the Agricultural Hall via an elevated track extending about 155 m (170 yards), and appears to have been called "The Saddleback Railroad".
context_page_description: Roy Stone was an American soldier, civil engineer, and inventor. He served in the American Civil War, distinguishing himself during the Battle of Gettysburg, and took part in the Spanish–American War. He pursued a civil engineering career in a peacetime and became in 1893 the first head of the Office of Road Inquiry, which was the Federal Highway Administration's predecessor.
context_section_description: Stone became a leading advocate of the Good Roads Movement which is now known. His contributions led to major changes and improvements in highway construction and design. He served as one of the early heads of the Division of Public Roads from October 3, 1983 - October 13, 1899. 
  Among his inventions was a steam-driven monorail at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. A larger version was built in 1878 as Bradford and Foster Brook Railway, Pennsylvania.
  Stone briefly returned to active military duty with the rank of Brigadier General in 1898, serving in the Puerto Rican Campaign of the Spanish–American War.
caption: Roy Stone's Centennial Monorail of 1876
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