featuring a nice truss bridge... and Motorhead!
Daniel Brim and I did this trip over Thanksgiving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGaBiTuZjA
I hate driving that kind of road at night.
Nice find on that truss bridge!! It ceases to amaze me how some of these old alignments handled traffic back in the day, but then again they did not have the massive vehicles we have today.
If ever there was a US highway crying out for decommissioning, it's 19W. Most of it is co-signed with either US 11E or US 23/I-26. The only part that stands alone is a twisting, narrow, mountainous highway that carries only local traffic. As much as I like the split routes, I'd do away with this one. I'd make US 19E US 19 and give 19W state designations in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on December 28, 2010, 09:42:51 PM
featuring a nice truss bridge... and Motorhead!
Daniel Brim and I did this trip over Thanksgiving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGaBiTuZjA
OK, where is that? Looks like a relatively flat road surface. Is this somewhere south of Johnson City?
I do not remember exactly, other than that it is within 5-10 miles of the NC state line. It is maybe the one flat spot in the entire region!
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 05, 2011, 03:10:21 AM
I do not remember exactly, other than that it is within 5-10 miles of the NC state line. It is maybe the one flat spot in the entire region!
That's definitely an old alignment. The existing alignment, narrow and curvy as it may be, is striped and doesn't have a one-lane bridge.
yes, definitely an old alignment - it parallels a road that, if I recall correctly, is a 4-lane undivided expressway.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on January 06, 2011, 12:12:37 AM
yes, definitely an old alignment - it parallels a road that, if I recall correctly, is a 4-lane undivided expressway.
In that case, it would be 19
E, not 19W.
I was half asleep when I took the video (I drove later in the night, so I was resting up for it), so the title was just a mistake on my part.