Unique, Odd, or Interesting Signs aka The good, the bad, and the ugly

[freebrickproductions]

In Cedar City, Utah:

I've noticed Georgia likes to post similar at their crossings near intersections:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7627976,-84.7250943,3a,15y,234.41h,85.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s-5vM88M87z69MQ4UnLIAkg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D4.02136561236685%26panoid%3D-5vM88M87z69MQ4UnLIAkg%26yaw%3D234.41175870066948!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDQwMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[Big John]

^^ Appleton WI: https://maps.app.goo.gl/d7D6PCSTabUxJqoWA

Signs for each side before and after tracks.

[kphoger]

Funny, I just ran across this today, thought about posting it here, and decided not to.  Well, I guess I should have!

Illinois

[D-Dey65]

In Cedar City, Utah:

Thanks to some videos from JawTooth during his visits to Florida, I found out that a lot of crossings of Brightline trains along the original Florida East Coast Railway main line have signs similar to this, most notably in Vero Beach. It actually makes me want to go there.

[formulanone]

Prepare to meet your maker (or perhaps a local collision center) for this warning in Port Wentworth, Georgia:

[7/8]

There's a pair of European-style crosswalks signs with a "silly walks" reference in Charlottetown, PEI: GSV Link

I found this article from 2018 discussing the signs: https://www.saltwire.com/prince-edward-island/new-charlottetown-crosswalk-sign-encourages-silly-walks-244679

[TBKS1]

First time I've ever seen one of these in person, a Federal Aid Program route sign. Found in Tombstone, AZ on 22 March 2025.

F-016-1 (12)

[pderocco]

First time I've ever seen one of these in person, a Federal Aid Program route sign. Found in Tombstone, AZ on 22 March 2025.

F-016-1 (12)

Probably purchased from an antique store, like so much of the stuff in Tombstone.

[kphoger]

First time I've ever seen one of these in person, a Federal Aid Program route sign. Found in Tombstone, AZ on 22 March 2025.

F-016-1 (12)

Probably purchased from an antique store, like so much of the stuff in Tombstone.

The sign appears to be authentic.

GSV location is here, and it accurately points to FAP F-016-1(12), as confirmed here (image rotated to put north at the top):


https://apps.azdot.gov/files/ROW/Plans/State_Route_80/SR_80_Index_7_pages.pdf

[ClassicHasClass]

First time I've ever seen one of these in person, a Federal Aid Program route sign. Found in Tombstone, AZ on 22 March 2025.

F-016-1 (12)

A number of these survive in various places in California too.

Unrelated, here's another NMDOT special, a swollen US highway shield with two routes (at the terminus of NM 120). https://maps.app.goo.gl/7BGhSr4T3wjKsvoq5

[wanderer2575]

Unrelated, here's another NMDOT special, a swollen US highway shield with two routes (at the terminus of NM 120). https://maps.app.goo.gl/7BGhSr4T3wjKsvoq5

The eastbound and westbound confirmation shields also have the two routes, but stacked instead of side-by-side.

Eastbound:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/msmosViTa5YmcGyY9
Westbound:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/tCsHnWnVdmLKRji67

[kphoger]

I was watching a YouTube video about the 'La Gloria–Colombia' highway today.  The southern half of this highway—between Carr. Fed. 85 and Carr. Est. NL-1—just opened a few months ago (but has been erroneously shown as already existing on some maps for more than a decade) and provides the last remaining portion of a wide bypass of the entire Laredo metro area that completely avoids crossing into Tamaulipas.

Anyway, where NL-1 intersects with Carr. Fed. 2 (GSV here), I noticed this giant sign.  Here we have shields for both TX-255 and I-35, posted at a rural highway junction in Mexico.

Is this the only instance of a US state route being signposted in Mexico?

I can only assume that mounting the sign to the side of a trailer was a temporary measure.





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[newyooper]

First time I've ever seen one of these in person, a Federal Aid Program route sign. Found in Tombstone, AZ on 22 March 2025.

F-016-1 (12)

A number of these survive in various places in California too.

Unrelated, here's another NMDOT special, a swollen US highway shield with two routes (at the terminus of NM 120). https://maps.app.goo.gl/7BGhSr4T3wjKsvoq5

Oh! Oh! Oh I got it.... 0.135922....

[TBKS1]

Inversely colored Airport 980 shield in Nashville, Arkansas



This is what it normally looks like by comparison...

[pderocco]

Inversely colored Airport 980 shield in Nashville, Arkansas



This is what it normally looks like by comparison...

Guide signs for airports are usually blue, so if you see these as being for the airport rather than the route number, it makes sense.

[Amaury]

Semi advisory on US 395 northbound in Pendleton, Oregon, at the junction with Interstate 84: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gHoabX23MMFGEeaf7

[kphoger]

Semi advisory

I expected this to be a sign that was only half yellow.

[ClassicHasClass]

Semi advisory on US 395 northbound in Pendleton, Oregon, at the junction with Interstate 84: https://maps.app.goo.gl/gHoabX23MMFGEeaf7

That must be relatively recent. I don't remember that being there a few years ago.

[kphoger]

Unusual abbreviation for kilometers per hour:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/pQjw3MXVVMxixmDo8

[LilianaUwU]

Unusual abbreviation for kilometers per hour:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/pQjw3MXVVMxixmDo8

Also, a recycled sign down the road.

[kphoger]

Also, a recycled sign down the road.

Ha!  I just posted that in the appropriate thread.  Great minds...

[PColumbus73]

Is this the only instance of a US state route being signposted in Mexico?

There's an I-5 shield on a couple signs in Tijuana.

[kphoger]

Is this the only instance of a US state route being signposted in Mexico?

There's an I-5 shield on a couple signs in Tijuana.

See the bolded part of my question.

[Mav94]

Here in a residential neighborhood of Humboldt, IA is a rather odd sign:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/f3D6wzy2SxAjKhZD7

This is a standard Humboldt street sign, but this street is not US 169, which is four blocks west of here, as the sign (almost) indicates. As far as I know, US 169 has not traveled on this road since at least 1937, and it's very likely it never traveled it at all. This sign is not on any sort of direct route between any two noteworthy places -- this isn't the most direct route between US 169 and downtown, or anywhere else for that matter. Yet somehow there's a sign here directing traffic to US 169. Who is it for?

Strangely I remember, from many childhood visits to Humboldt, that back in the 1970s and 1980s there was a very old sign at this corner directing traffic to US 169. It had a 169 shield and an arrow pointing right. The thing was decrepit in the 1970s and it doesn't really serve a clear purpose -- but they went to the trouble of making another one?

[Max Rockatansky]

San Joaquin County Route -1

IMG_7097 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr


The "shortest state highway placard" on the actually fifth shortest California State Route

IMG_7274 by Max Rockatansky, on Flickr