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Title: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: Mapmikey on May 05, 2010, 08:33:42 PM
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
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: agentsteel53 on May 05, 2010, 09:14:05 PM
Quote from: Mapmikey on May 05, 2010, 08:33:42 PM

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. 
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: agentsteel53 on May 05, 2010, 09:36:52 PM
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!

(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.static.flickr.com%2F3645%2F3570858561_87c2c8374f.jpg&hash=fee8b658005089d3024e67128a383b76b0599f63)
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: Ian on May 06, 2010, 02:58:49 PM
It's been replaced :-(
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: Roadgeek Adam on May 06, 2010, 06:09:10 PM
Quote from: PennDOTFan on May 06, 2010, 02:58:49 PM
It's been replaced :-(

Well that's sad :(
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: Dougtone on May 06, 2010, 07:32:09 PM
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.
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: Alps on May 06, 2010, 09:41:30 PM
Damn.  I am in fact going right through there on Sunday, so now I won't bother detouring.
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: MDRoads on May 09, 2010, 01:44:32 PM
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).
Title: Re: Ancient MD 49 shield
Post by: agentsteel53 on May 09, 2010, 03:29:40 PM
here's what the gantry looked like in 1977. 

(//www.aaroads.com/shields/img/MD/MD19612202i1.jpg)