Daily Picture Challenge!

Started by empirestate, January 02, 2017, 01:18:44 PM

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Jim

QuoteJuly 7, 2019. Photos with at least four 7s.

The most I came up with in a quick search of my stuff is this one with six 7s in Fenton, Missouri.  July 20, 2003.



I found a bunch with five 7s.  Here are a couple of them.

Colonie, New York.  April 24, 2006.



Wichita Falls, Texas.  August 31, 2003.

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paulthemapguy

QuoteJuly 7, 2019. Photos with at least four 7s.

Went looking around Ohio, where every interstate outside the Turnpike starts with a 7.  Did not disappoint.


OH-I-75X016BS by Paul Drives, on Flickr
Avatar is the last interesting highway I clinched.
My website! http://www.paulacrossamerica.com Now featuring all of Ohio!
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National collection status: 361/425. Only 64 route markers remain

Truvelo

QuoteJuly 7, 2019. Photos with at least four 7s.

Kansas City taken many years ago.

Speed limits limit life

wanderer2575

QuoteJuly 7, 2019. Photos with at least four 7s.

Chesapeake, OH:


A few from North Carolina.

Five 7s (including the exit number tabs):






hotdogPi

QuoteJuly 8, 2019: Historical information signs.

Roswell, GA, in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, on a pedestrian trail.


Derry, NH, between Manchester and the Massachusetts border.


Delray Beach, FL, in the Miami area north of Miami itself.
Clinched, plus MA 286

Traveled, plus several state routes

Lowest untraveled: 25 (updated from 14)

New clinches: MA 286
New traveled: MA 14, MA 123

ErmineNotyours


Truvelo

QuoteJuly 8, 2019: Historical information signs.

Strasburg Railroad taken four months ago. Hard to imagine snow on the ground now that we're in the middle of summer.

Speed limits limit life

csw

QuoteJuly 8, 2019: Historical information signs.

Two photos that fellow civil engineers might find interesting.

Initial Point of Indiana in Orange County, the point from which much of the Midwest was surveyed.


Newport Covered Bridge near, you guessed it, Newport, IN. J. J. Daniels was one of the most famous covered bridge builders in the state.

wanderer2575

QuoteJuly 8, 2019: Historical information signs.

At a small rest stop on Grand River Avenue (former US-16) in Ionia County, MI:



formulanone

QuoteJuly 8, 2019: Historical information signs.

The first Jell-O Factory in LeRoy, NY:


El Camino Real on Old Spanish Road:


Great 1909 Auto Race in Tampa, Florida (possibly part of the route alignment for US 301?):

Jim


QuoteJuly 8, 2019: Historical information signs.

Dawson Creek, BC.  June 11, 2001.



Canyon Creek Bridge in the Yukon.  June 14, 2001.



Kaskaskia, Illinois.  July 23, 2005.

Photos I post are my own unless otherwise noted.
Signs: https://www.teresco.org/pics/signs/
Travel Mapping: https://travelmapping.net/user/?u=terescoj
Counties: http://www.mob-rule.com/user/terescoj
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hotdogPi

QuoteJuly 19, 2019: The number 0.

Note that this means the number 0, not the digit 0.
0.0 and 0.00 are valid.



(Sign on the left: 0°C)
Clinched, plus MA 286

Traveled, plus several state routes

Lowest untraveled: 25 (updated from 14)

New clinches: MA 286
New traveled: MA 14, MA 123

formulanone

QuoteJuly 19, 2019: The number 0.

Mile marker on US 1 at the Pennsylvania-Maryland line:


csw

Exit 0 on I-90 in Indiana.


Mile marker 0 on I-72 in Illinois.


Exit 0 on I-270 in Denver.

Jim


QuoteJuly 19, 2019: The number 0.

Mile 0 entering California on I-10.  February 22, 2007.



Alaska Highway Mile 0 in Dawson Creek, British Columbia.  June 11, 2001.



Mile 0.0 on I-26 in Kingsport, Tennessee.  June 28, 2014.

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oscar

#4940
Mile 0 for US 1 in Key West:



Unofficial Mile 0 sign (hadn't been updated to metric) for the west end of the Trans-Canada Highway in Victoria BC:



Near the other end of the TCH, a symbolic Mile 0 sign in downtown St. John's NL (since then, the east end of the TCH was relocated out of downtown), claiming from its far-eastern perspective that "Canada starts right here":

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Truvelo

QuoteJuly 19, 2019: The number 0.

The beltway around Budapest has the number M0.

Speed limits limit life

hotdogPi

QuoteJuly 23, 2019: The focus of the photo is something on a road other than the one that the photo is taken from.

Photo taken from A-10; sign meant for QC 112. The two roads parallel for a few kilometers, with A-10 inside QC 112.

Clinched, plus MA 286

Traveled, plus several state routes

Lowest untraveled: 25 (updated from 14)

New clinches: MA 286
New traveled: MA 14, MA 123

US71

QuoteJuly 23, 2019: The focus of the photo is something on a road other than the one that the photo is taken from.


US 50/61/67 along MO 266 near St Louis
Like Alice I Try To Believe Three Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Eth

QuoteJuly 23, 2019: The focus of the photo is something on a road other than the one that the photo is taken from.

Not sure if this counts, but the focus here is on the signs above the C/D lanes with the photo taken from the I-285 mainline.


Truvelo

QuoteJuly 23, 2019: The focus of the photo is something on a road other than the one that the photo is taken from.

Like the last post, the best I can find is something taken from a ramp or C/D setup.

Here is the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway taken ten years ago before it was remodelled prior to tolling :banghead:

Speed limits limit life

csw

QuoteJuly 23, 2019: The focus of the photo is something on a road other than the one that the photo is taken from.
I'll take this chance to post one of my better finds recently: this button copy overhead on the east side of Baltimore, taken from the parking lot of a boarded-up adult video store. Classic Baltimore!

TBKS1

Interstate 20 was closed at the Texas/Louisiana state line for some major road work... anyways, here's my contribution

Taken on November 8th, 2017

I take pictures of road signs, that's about it.

General rule of thumb: Just stay in the "Traffic Control" section of the forum and you'll be fine.

hotdogPi

QuoteJuly 25, 2019: Signs in more than one language.



I-91 approaching the Canadian border



Stop sign on a First Nations reservation
Clinched, plus MA 286

Traveled, plus several state routes

Lowest untraveled: 25 (updated from 14)

New clinches: MA 286
New traveled: MA 14, MA 123

oscar

#4949
QuoteJuly 25, 2019: Signs in more than one language.

Tri-lingual stop sign in Iqaluit NU, with Quebec-style mini-stop signs only in Inuktitut:



Bi-lingual stop sign in Cambridge Bay NU, where the prevailing Inuit language is Inuvialuk rather than Inuktitut:



Bi-lingual road signs (no French!) in Inuit-dominated Kuujjuaq QC:

my Hot Springs and Highways pages, with links to my roads sites:
http://www.alaskaroads.com/home.html



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