The new highway photograph game

[agentsteel53]

I much prefer US-81 to I-81.  Here is an old Texas sign.



(the Virginia photo, btw, was taken in 1973.)

[Dougtone]

[deathtopumpkins]

That fabulous array of signs agentsteel posted no longer exists. On Google Street View the only thing I can see that still remains is the utility pole to the left of the route 32 shield.

I know right where that is too... Suffolk, VA. VDOT's kept the signs pretty current down there, at least I haven't been able to find any old ones left.



Sticking with a US Route...

LOTS for you to choose from here, and apologies for the rain.

[Truvelo]

And sticking with the collector/distributor theme:

There is a route shield visible in the full size picture if anyone wants to use it to continue

[Dougtone]

[agentsteel53]

mmm... blobby

here is the traditional King's Highway reassurance marker.

[Dougtone]

[agentsteel53]

wow, I did not know Ontario ever used black scotchlite (black under normal light, but retro-reflective white).  learn something new every day.  staying with the black scotchlite theme...



that photo is taken with the flash.  Normally the shield is white with black legend.  It is a Massachusetts marker.  16x16 inches, dating to possibly as far back as 1948.

[Dougtone]

Still in Massachusetts.  A little newer.

[agentsteel53]

and a little older ... 18x18 shield.

[hbelkins]

[Dougtone]

[agentsteel53]

did a New Hampshire contractor make that Mass state route 9 pair??  That - black rounded rectangle border within white sharp-corner rectangle - is a 1930s-1960s NH specification.  

alas Doug has posted a 25-28 gantry in the meantime, but this photo is too good to not share!



(state highway 28 goes into RI and NH so hey it's tangentially related I believe NH-28/MA-28/RI-28 is old New England route 28 from the 1922 system... and hey, look at that, a 25 sign in this photo, too!)

[hbelkins]

[agentsteel53]

staying in Kentucky, an excellent WW2-era wood sign with cateye reflectors.

[Dougtone]

[njroadhorse]

[Dougtone]

[agentsteel53]

US-3 cutouts are dang hard to find.  I've never seen an embossed one; just this flat style.

[hbelkins]

[Dougtone]

[agentsteel53]

some Nova Scotia style shields ... in New Brunswick???



NB apparently tried that style for a few years in the 1960s before going back to their usual province-outline style.

[Dougtone]

[njroadhorse]

[Dougtone]