Ancient MD 49 shield

[Mapmikey]

Found this on Google Street View earlier today...


http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cumberland,+md&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.610437,62.402344&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cumberland,+Allegany,+Maryland&ll=39.649154,-78.783989&spn=0,0.03047&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=39.649321,-78.78408&panoid=rSuRAzt4fUWE9pp-oafKJA&cbp=12,223.18,,0,5


There aren't many of these style state route shields left in Maryland.  The ones I knew of in Frederick were finally replaced.

Mapmikey

[agentsteel53]

There aren't many of these style state route shields left in Maryland.  The ones I knew of in Frederick were finally replaced.

Mapmikey

that looks to me to be block font!  Which makes it even older than those 144s in Frederick. 

[agentsteel53]

correction, it is not block font.

here is a Doug photo.  I'd totally forgotten that that 49 existed; I even saw it in 2006 in person!

[Ian]

It's been replaced

[Roadgeek Adam]

It's been replaced

Well that's sad

[Dougtone]

I only took that picture a year ago too.  And the funny thing was that I wasn't looking for the sign either, but rather, I just stumbled upon it as I was trying to find my way around Cumberland.

[Alps]

Damn.  I am in fact going right through there on Sunday, so now I won't bother detouring.

[MDRoads]

Yup, I went through there back in January, and it's gone.  But now there's a MD 220 sign goof on the left fork (Greene Street).

[agentsteel53]

here's what the gantry looked like in 1977.