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Additional travel • options from Rappahannock became available in the 1920s and 30s. During that period Walter Jenkins operated a daily bus service from Winchester to Fredericksburg via Front Royal and Culpeper traversing all of the current US Route 522 through dear old Rapp. The one-way fare from Little Washington to Front Royal was still just $1. With this service, additional rail connections were now available at each end of the bus route and at Culpeper. People went shopping in Front Royal or Culpeper, by (you don’t mean) taking the bus. In addition to regular stops at each of the county towns, it was also possible to ‘flag’ the buses along the road for more ‘personal’ service. TVy that today and watch/ smell my/his/her exhaust fumes.

But all things change. Although most passenger trains were or would soon be in decline by the 1950s, it was still possible to ride the rails from Front Royal to Washington, D.C. as late as 1954. Trailways eventually absorbed the Jenkins bus line and the large carrier would only make stops in the towns. By the mid-seventies, even this convenience ceased.

So lest we think of our predecessors as isolated or primitive in their transportation options, it seems they had perfectly adequate public methods for travel to the outside world.