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Started by Max Rockatansky, February 04, 2017, 08:32:05 PM

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#25
Flickr is back working quick, CA 130...implied Santa Clara County delusion and actual westbound:

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Abandoned road in Camp Manzanar looking west towards the Sierras:

2 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Probably one of the coolest road pictures I've ever taken at Shafer Canyon Road from the Island in the Sky in Canyonlands National Park:

4 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

CA 58 west of Bakersfield in the Temblor Range:

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Soda Lake Road in Carrizo Plains National Monument

1 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

US 50/Cave Rock at Lake Tahoe in Nevada:

1 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Central-Main in Central City, SD which I'm fairly certain was once US 14A:

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Time for one of big dogs, the Challenger on Route 66...first in Arizona:

1.  Looking west on 66/I-40BL in Ash Fork:

1 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Abandoned highway bridge west of Ash Fork, in addition to what I'm fairly certain is a very early alignment over the railroad tracks in the last photo:

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Down Seligman and parking the wrong way on the westbound lane:

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Grand Canyon Caverns:

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Abandoned Truxton:

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The Valentine School:

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The Hackberry General Store:

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The Kingman Powerhouse:

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Cool Springs:

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Sitgreaves Pass AKA Bloody 66, the pre-1953 alignment west of Kingman:

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Oatman:

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And the California side of the Colorado River, starting with the Colorado Arch Bridge:

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The El Garces Hotel in Needles:

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Goffs and the Goffs General Store:

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Essex and some actual CR 66 signage:

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Cadiz Summit and the thinking man's chair:

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Chambless:

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Road Runners Retreat

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Amboy:

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#28
CA 49 between Coulterville, the Merced River Canyon, and Bear Valley:

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Of course this would have been a lot easier if I didn't make black out copies of my license plate.

And the Wawona Road over Yosemite Valley:

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China Alley:

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CO 139 over Douglas Pass and the Book Cliffs:

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#29
Mountain 357; the old alignment of the Colony Mill Road to Sequoia National Park that was used before the Generals Highway:

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Rimrock Drive in Colorado National Monument:

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Main Street Columbia, CA:

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County Route J132/Greeley Hill Road in downtown Coulterville, CA:

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Speaking of County Routes, J1 between CA 25 and I-5 was really the first album I put serious work into finding places for b&w road photos:

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#30
Pike Street/Old US 50 in Dayton, NV:

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Lower Main in Deadwood, SD:

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US 85 and Pine Street in Deadwood:

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Badwater Road at the Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park:

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CA 127 in Death Valley Junction:

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Dantes View Road in Death Valley National Park

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Towne Pass/CA 190 at the tip of the Panamints entering Death Valley National Park

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#31
Eagle Mountain Road looking north towards Eagle Mountain:

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Old Tex Wash Bridge west of Desert Center on Ragsdale Road which was US 60/70:

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Plus the creepy gas station on the left past the bridge in the photo above:

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Devils Tower from WY 110

1 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

And from US 14

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I-80 Donner Summit

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Donner Pass Road/Old US 40

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Some old trucks, signs, and buildings in Eden, WY on a frontage road that I'm pretty convinced was part of US 191:

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US 40 Empire, CO:

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CA 140/The Ferguson Slide:

1 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

US 191 over the Flaming Gorge Dam in northeast Utah:

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Fort Klamath on OR 62:

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CA 178 west on Walker Pass:

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Signed County Route G1 from Fremont Peak to CA 156:

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#33
Ruins in Garlock, CA from Garlock Road:

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Old Conoco Station in Georgetown, CO:

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#34
CA 190 Tule River Canyon

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Mountain Route 99 through Upper Kern River Canyon

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Ruins of the Giles ghost town on UT 24:

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Lots of good stuff on or near CA 49, starting with the CA 140 multiplex in Mariposa:

2Mariposa by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

CA 49 leaving Mariposa northbound:

1Mariposa by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Bear Valley at the J16 junction with CA 49:

7BearValley by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

CA 49 over the Merced River where the the town of Bagby and the Yosemite Valley Railroad were:

10Bagby by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Coulterville from CA 49 looking up J132:

18Coulterville by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Main Street off of CA 49 in Chinese Camp:

24Chinese Camp by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Main Street in downtown Jamestown which I'm fairly certain was early CA 49:

31Jamestown by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Mine road off of CA 49 where Carson Hill was:

67CarsonHill by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

CA 49/CA 4BL in Angels Camp:

76AngelsCamp by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

CA 49 facing what is probably the last building from Attaville which would be the school:

77Attaville by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

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More CA 49 with Main Street in San Andreas which I believe was part of the early highway along with Gold Strike Road:

78SanAndreas by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Intersection of Main Street and Center Street in Mokelumne Hill which is still signed as Historic CA 49:

88MokelumneHill by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Ruins of the Butte City general store just north of the North Fork Mokelumne River on CA 49:

90ButteCity by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Main Street in Jackson which I'm pretty sure was an older CA 49 alignment along with Broadway:

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Downtown Sutter Creek on Old CA 49:

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Amador City on Old CA 49 (getting close to Sacramento made it kind of hard not to have people in the pictures):

107AmadorCity by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Dry Town on CA 49:

115Drytown by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Main Street in Plymouth just west of CA 49:

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More CA 49 in Diamond Springs:

118ElDoradoDiamondSprings by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

Main Street in Placerville with CA 49 up ahead.  I want to say without looking back at my notes that this was US 50 before the expressway was built:

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CA 49 in Coloma:

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1915 Coloma Bridge over the American River:

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CA 49 looking up at what's left of Pilot Hill:

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Columbia Avenue in Goldfield, NV:

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Euclid Avenue looking at the Goldfield School House:

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The Goldfield Hotel on US 95.  Supposedly this place is haunted if you are in to watching reality TV shows where nobody ever really finds anything:

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The start of US 180 from the south rim of the Grand Canyon:

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CA 120 in Groveland:

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US 62/180 in Guadalupe Mountains National Park in far western and remote as all hell Texas:

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Abandoned building on Excelsior Avenue in Hardwick, CA:

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WY 318 on Main Street in Hartville:

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CA 299 along the Trinity River:

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Helena, CA on Fork Road in the Trinity Range:

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US 85 in downtown Lead, SD:

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CA 49 through the Merced River Canyon:

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County Route J16 in Hornitos, CA:

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Miner Street facing west in Idaho Springs, CO.  I'm fairly convinced this was probably a very early alignment of US 40 but I haven't really researched it:

1 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

OR 238/California Street in downtown Jacksonville:

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Keys View Road in Joshua Tree National Park:

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#40
Kaiser Pass Road:

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Kings Canyon Lodge Ruins on CA 1801 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

CA 180 in Kings Canyon:

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La Grange from CA 132:

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#41
Old La Grange Bridge over the Tuolumne River:

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Los Gatos Creek Road-Coalinga Road:

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Manville from WY 270:

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#42
The start of US 6 in Bishop, CA:

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Vintage ASAC signage in Laws, CA:

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Rebuilt portion of the Carson and Colorado Railroad in Laws, CA:

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US 24 in Leadville, CO:

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Battlefield Road, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument:

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Another big dog with US 550 starting in Ouray:

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The climb up the Million Dollar Highway to Red Mountain Pass:

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I want to say this was once part of a town called Albany?

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The Chattanooga ghost town at the top of Red Mountain Pass:

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The Idarado Mine from US 550 at Red Mountain Pass:

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Downtown Silverton just off of US 550 on either County Route 2 or unsigned CO 110.  I'm fairly certain that I'm past the end of the unsigned state route:

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US 550 on Molas Pass:

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The Mineral King Highway from the top at the Valley of the same name down 6,000 something feet to CA 198:

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Nice old gas pumps at Silver City:

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Redwood stumps on the dirt section from the mining and lumber era:

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Looking west along the East Fork of the Kaweah River as the road heads downhill:

9 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr

With some tracts of Redwood Sequoias in the shade:

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Lookout Point and a huge hairpin, basically this is the boundary for Sequoia National Park:

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Kaweah River Bridge

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One of many narrow sections of Mineral King Road:

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The bottom:

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kphoger

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on February 16, 2017, 05:42:52 PM
Downtown Silverton just off of US 550 on either County Route 2 or unsigned CO 110.  I'm fairly certain that I'm past the end of the unsigned state route:

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The wet pavement turned out great in that shot.  I really like the way it looks in monochrome.

Our family's first just-us, just-for-fun vacation is coming up in June, and we'll be travelling through Ouray (camping nearby for two nights, actually).  I must say, I think color suits the lower elevations better, but monochrome would be superstar for sweeping shots of higher-elevation passes.

For example, here's a picture of Ophir Pass I just ripped off a Google image search and then changed to black and white with MS Office Picture Manager.
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Max Rockatansky

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^^^

You're right, the b&w seems to work better above the tree line south of Ouray.  Really the colors are a lot darker the higher up in the San Juans you go, they really look good with the mine back drops...at least I think so.  It has me curious to see how Pikes Peak turns out later when I get to it, it should be in the next week or so when I hit that one.  I actually stayed out during that rain shower in Silverton to get that shot because all the people cleared out of the street and side walks. 

Time for the next ten; starting with UT 261/Moki Dugway:

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CA 89/Monitor Pass

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#47
US 395 over Mono Lake:

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The Generals Highway in Sequoia National Park from Moro Rock:

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SD 87/Needles Highway:

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NV 341/Geiger Grade:

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NV 431/Mount Rose Highway

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More US 66 out in the desert in California...

Fenner, one of the few places gas can be had....for $4.99 a gallon:

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More Cadiz Summit...that chair was there for a good long time:

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Amboy on a cloudy day:

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The signage has seen better days:

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A lone tree is all that is left of the town of Bagdad:

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Almost lifeless in Ludlow:

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Old CA 41 and later 46 on Santa Rosa Creek Road:

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CA 41 with the first reassurance marker north from CA 1 (former US 466 started here) and the now mudslid portion that is currently blocked off:

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Old CA 41 south of I-5 next to the new road:

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Old CA 1 through Harmony on Old Creamery Road:

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CA 229 terminus and the one-lane section north to Creston:

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