Highway number game

[ctsignguy]

staying on route 14....

[agentsteel53]

Then there's the (as I call it) "skinny neck" version

yep, that's the classic wasp-waisted US shield shape, dating back to 1926.  It looks a bit different when the number is the only legend, and there is no border.

Here's a lovely wasp-waisted 14A from South Dakota, next to the more modern-shaped 85.

[njroadhorse]

Adding all the numbers on the previous assembly gives you 18, and here's a US 18/151 assembly

[us44mt]

From Ulster County, NY. Trying to photograph as many of these as I can find before they are gone.

[agentsteel53]

that's a sweet US-18.  Have never seen that style for that number ... have seen US-8 and US-53 in Barron County (where old signs go to ... survive), and also US-41, 141, 151 and I don't remember where those are, and US-12 and US-14.  Looking for US-10 and US-61 as those are my two favorite highways in Wisconsin!

continuing to zoom in through the jurisdictions, here is a Town Road 18.  This sign is from Michigan and goes back to the 1930s.

[njroadhorse]

Here's California 18

[mightyace]

Take the 8 from the end (like the old continuous highway number game) to make the start of:

TN 840


TN840_Cur_End@TN100_TN100EB_2_TN840WB by mightyace, on Flickr

[corco]

The highest numbered state route in Tennessee is 840, the highest numbered state route in Washington is 971

[Ian]

Your shield has a head on it, so does this in a way:

[njroadhorse]

Next door to New Hampshire is Vermont

[agentsteel53]

sweet lord, the compressed EM font, it makes my eyes vomit.

to that end: here is another hideous example of font misuse.



this one, at least, has the good sense to be in a construction zone.

(okay, njroadhorse posted before I did, but I am keeping the 89 because VT-289 is clearly a branch route of AZ-89! )

[njroadhorse]

Arizona 89 intersects Arizona 69 in Prescott

[agentsteel53]

I'm elegantly sidestepping the issue of I-69.

[Hellfighter]

[mapman]

The I-96/I-275/MI 14 interchange has three loop ramps and a fly-over ramp, just like the CA 17/CA 85 interchange in Los Gatos, CA (although the fly-over ramp at the California interchange is a right exit).

[SSOWorld]

Look Dave and 85!!!!</George Carlin>

lets bump the 8 up one and knock one off the 5 what do we got?



a 94!!!!

[njroadhorse]

I-94 intersects IL 137 across the border

[ctsignguy]

1 plus 3 plus 7 yields 11

[bugo]

[njroadhorse]

Next to Arkansas is Tennessee, where US 11 is!

[Darkchylde]

US 11? Hey, we got that too!

[ctsignguy]

so do i!   

[agentsteel53]

11 is in Alabama too... this cast iron shield goes back to the 1920s.

[US71]

After 11 must come 12

[agentsteel53]

and after 12 comes 13 ...