During the following decade, a spiderweb of Loop-directed expressways and encircling bypass routes was superimposed on the region, which roughly followed the outlines of the original wagon-wheel pattern of settlement.
The living-history competition is divided into two categories: One rewards authenticity among the nine original wagons dating to the early-1800s, and the other tests the cooks' ability essentially to make something out of nothing, with beans, potatoes, bread and a mystery meat of beef, chicken, pork or goat.
A programme of fitting wooden boards to the insides of the wagons was begun, but by 1989, solid steel wagons were being fabricated, reusing the frames from the original wagons.
The original broom wagon was a Citroen H van with an actual broom tied to the back doors.
You could almost say the guilty deserved to be tied up and whipped, as Grandma was in the original Jonathan wagon train piece.
Cadillac also showed engineering mettle with its original crossover wagon, the first-generation SRX, whose sophisticated ride and handling — abetted by groundbreaking magnetic-fluid shock absorbers that have since been adopted by no less than Ferrari and Audi — were negated by its odd proportions and high price tag.
Built in 1902 to supply fresh water for the park's extensive landscaping, the windmill was significantly cheaper to run than the original "sprinkling wagons" — but electric pumps quickly rendered it obsolete.
Since the original station wagons were introduced in the early 20th century as vehicles large enough to haul multiple passengers and bags from the train station hence the name they have been synonymous with large, utilitarian, if not slightly boring, cars.
The filmmakers added perspective to the film with news and conference footage, interviews with a couple of historian types and a collection of machines, including one of Ford's original wood-body wagons to an end-of-the-line Buick Roadmaster.
Reaching the North American market in an era of cheap gasoline and a wholesale rejection of the station wagon, the original Navigator was a sales sensation for the Ford luxury subsidiary, a status that it ultimately could not sustain in the face of Cadillac's Escalade and entries by Japanese and German luxury brands.
