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<\/a>\n First thing in the morning. US highway 30 eastbound in western Nebraska. We follow 30 for a while because it’s a mile or two away from I-80 and more likely to have old signs. It may or may not be rather cold.<\/p>\n
The shield was in an industrial area just south of US-275, and it was replaced in April, 2009. There is one 1957-spec interstate shield left in Nebraska that anyone knows about. It is an I-80.<\/p>\n
\n Catch of the day! Over and over again, I scoured downtown Omaha for old interstate highway markers, and by the third<\/i> time, I finally found one. This one was installed in 1963 or so, whenever I-480 was built through here along old US-75.<\/p>\n
\n The blue US-77 bridge in Sioux City. South Dakota is the far side, and Nebraska is where I’m taking the picture from.<\/p>\n
\n Several of these survive in Gothenburg. Also: ice does very interesting things under flash!<\/p>\n
\n Nice pair of embossed signs, showing the difference between old and new fonts.<\/p>\n
\n Rain or shine, the trains will run on time. (This principle apparently extends to snow and ice, too.)<\/p>\n
\n A switch engine.<\/p>\n
\n Red barns and white frosted trees.<\/p>\n
\n This can’t possibly be a standard sign – but it’s definitely old. Somewhere in Omaha.<\/p>\n
\n What’s missing here? Yep, just a block down from that I-480 shield. The odd thing is, that one is at eye level and this one was about 20 feet in the air – and this one is the one that got yanked first?<\/p>\n
\n The I-129 freeway. It’s about a two mile long spur of I-29 coming from Iowa… and it contains about half of the button copy left in the entire state of Nebraska.<\/p>\n
\n The one state-named I-129 shield. Yep, it’s in Iowa. Because Iowa is good about that sort of thing. The ones in Nebraska are all gone … there’s one sitting on my floor at this very moment, in fact!<\/p>\n
\n The Sioux City airport beacon in the fog.<\/p>\n
\n Delivery van of the damned. The strange, strange skies are the result of fog and smoke from an industrial area, all under municipal lightning.<\/p>\n
\n Not a particularly old sign, but gotta love the bizarro lighting.<\/p>\n
\n The best part of this scene is that the little banner on the more distant light post says “right at home”.<\/p>\n
\n A tall light fixture in swirling fog.<\/p>\n
\n And a yellow stop sign! The “seat belt fastened?” variety is popular in the parking lots of a certain midwest and mountain state telecommunications company. I know of some still extant in Wyoming, Colorado, and this one in Iowa.<\/p>\n
\n Another view of the blue bridge.<\/p>\n
\n And one with some trees.<\/p>\n
\n South Dakota likes its metric speed limit signs.<\/p>\n
\n Residential neighborhood of the damned? I was just going for the embossed speed limit sign and upon review, the houses behind it look perfect for Halloween.<\/p>\n
\n Somewhere on South Dakota state highway 46. I don’t remember which town’s main drag we are approaching.<\/p>\n
\n Entering Sioux Falls, South Dakota on I-29.<\/p>\n
\n Specialization is for insects.<\/p>\n
\n South Dakota interstate shields get more and more common as one heads westward in the state. This is about as far east as you can get – there’s some 229s in Sioux City at one intersection.<\/p>\n
\n The end of interstate 229. No, really – it turns into a dirt road north of I-90.<\/p>\n