Alaska Highway

[agentsteel53]

day 1 of my Alaska Highway trip in early March

https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2010/05/05/alaska-highway-i/

[Hellfighter]

Awesome US-99 find! 

[agentsteel53]

Awesome US-99 find! 

oh everyone's known about that for years!

[Ian]

Nice pics! I like the old BC standalone shields with that old font. Is that where the old fashioned Maine signs got their font?

[agentsteel53]

Nice pics! I like the old BC standalone shields with that old font. Is that where the old fashioned Maine signs got their font?

I do not know who originated that general style.  The Massachusetts style is fairly similar as well - there must be some origin for it that all of them descended from; maybe some informal planning document by the feds that got interpreted as an official font edict.

[Ian]

Nice pics! I like the old BC standalone shields with that old font. Is that where the old fashioned Maine signs got their font?

I do not know who originated that general style.  The Massachusetts style is fairly similar as well - there must be some origin for it that all of them descended from; maybe some informal planning document by the feds that got interpreted as an official font edict.

The MA style is fairly similar, but not all the way. I know some BGSs on US 301 on Maryland's eastern shore have that MA style font. New York also used a similar font that Maine did.

[agentsteel53]

The MA style is fairly similar, but not all the way. I know some BGSs on US 301 on Maryland's eastern shore have that MA style font. New York also used a similar font that Maine did.

do you have a photo of any of those 301 green signs?

Maryland's custom font in general seems to vary some, but here is a fairly representative example:

[Ian]

Do you mind if I email you? I don't have it uploaded to the Picasa yet.

[agentsteel53]

send 'em along! 

[agentsteel53]

second batch is here!

https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2010/05/07/alaska-highway-ii/

[agentsteel53]

part III: in which we actually get to Alaska

https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2010/05/09/alaska-highway-iii/

[agentsteel53]

day four five

https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2010/05/14/alaska-highway-iv/

(day 4 was spend snowed in, in sunny Anchorage.)

[agentsteel53]

day six!

https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2010/05/17/alaska-highway-v/

won't someone please tell me what the Blower is????

[tmthyvs]

The "blower" looks to me like a beehive burner--an older method of dealing with the waste material at a sawmill. There aren't a whole lot of them left, and unless I miss my guess, you probably saw it near Houston, BC. That area has been in a fight with the three mills between Smithers and Houston over keeping the burners running. They tend to contribute to lovely air quality issues and were supposed to be phased out years ago, but the mills keep getting waivers and extensions to keep them operational.

[agentsteel53]

here's day 7!

https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2010/05/25/alaska-highway-vi/

[agentsteel53]

https://www.aaroads.com/blog/2010/06/05/alaska-highway-vii/

and that's all for Alaska!