The new highway photograph game

[wytout]

[agentsteel53]

Presuming that suffixed routes count as the numbered route.

it's a pretty loose game, so go for it.  and besides, if not, you did post another interstate shield!



there are a few examples of this Conn shield style floating around.

[hbelkins]

[corco]

[wytout]

Agentsteel recently gave us the merritt... how about the Berlin Turnpike

[corco]

[xonhulu]

Geez, this game moves fast.  Had this to follow the US 26, but its the right state to follow here:

[US71]

[agentsteel53]

another Kansas.  Trust me.

photo colorized based on Kansas DOT records.

[wytout]

Different State, but here's one assembly of shields that fits right in with that 7... good ol' squares!

[agentsteel53]

that's a Mass. style square shield. 

no better place to find those than in Mass itself!

this one has a fancy stripe that was an experiment in increasing visibility by making the white number reflective.

[wytout]

that's a Mass. style square shield. 

no better place to find those than in Mass itself!

this one has a fancy stripe that was an experiment in increasing visibility by making the white number reflective.

Not really though.  We know a real MA shield with 3 digits would be elongated not square.  That's a CT/MA Hybrid.

[agentsteel53]

unless it is a classic Mass square, in which case it will be a square with narrower numbers:

www.aaroads.com/shields/show.php?image=MA19491261t301260.jpg

a really old Mass shield - back when they used cateyes and had to stick with one font width - was still a square for three digits, just slightly larger:

www.aaroads.com/shields/show.php?image=MA19300011t200010.jpg&search=1

Mass did use slightly elongated US shields back in the day:

www.aaroads.com/shields/show.php?image=MA19302021t202020.jpg&search=202

[hbelkins]

[US71]

Ugly contractor sign:

[hbelkins]

[agentsteel53]

I'd post an ugly US 56/412 shield from New Mexico but mercifully I do not have one available.  

Here is an ugly 412 from Oklahoma instead.

[xonhulu]

Also from OK:

[corco]

off-spec Wyoming shield

[agentsteel53]

are all Wyoming shields supposed to be gold and black, even ones on white guide signs?

here is one that is off-spec too.  It's already overkill to make a three-digit sign for a number with two "1"s (such a number fits perfectly in the square).  Noting this problem, the highway department widened the numbers grotesquely.

[xonhulu]

[corco]

Yeah, always gold and black. That's the only black and white one I've ever seen.

Here's a bucking-horseless set of WYO shields

[agentsteel53]

the older Wyoming standard was white shields.  I do not know when they went to the golden-colored ones - 1950s or 1960s.

I wish I had an in-the-wild photo of a white shield; alas I just have two embossed ones in people's collections.  So here's another Wyoming interstate or two.

[corco]

Interesting- on a couple occasions on the WYO 789 corridor they put up this type of shield, with enlarged numbers and no bucking horse, which makes it much easier to read. I kind of wish they'd make this the standard on the few major state highways in Wyoming

[Hellfighter]