Most prized part of your "Roadgeek" collection

[Alex]

My 1957 spec Interstate 10 Alabama shield acquired from the city of Mobile with a 1972 date stamp.

The two binders of cd and dvd back-ups of every photo I have ever taken for AARoads and the majority of those sent to me over the years.

My road atlas collection which dates from 1942 onwards and includes most years between 1955 and and up.

[J N Winkler]

In my case it is the "witching directories," which contain most of the pattern-accurate sign design sheets I have been able to find, for about 30 US states and a number of transportation agencies abroad.  The "witching directories" contain about 79,000 file items in aggregate, which correspond to about 45,000 distinct sign design sheets or sheet sets (I have single-folder duplicates for a number of agencies in order to save the trouble of changing among, say, 700 folders).  A full backup of the witching directories would run to about five DVDs.

[oscar]

My map collection isn't quite as extensive as some others (complete only beginning 1976), but it includes a Texaco/Rand McNally "49-State" atlas, issued in 1959 during the brief interval between Alaska's and Hawaii's admissions to statehood.

[Scott5114]

My dad had an authentic Kentucky US 66 sign.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Years ago, he asked my mom's first cousin, a KYTC employee, to have the district sign shop make him a US 66 sign. They obliged. I have a photo of it somewhere but not sure where the pic is, but I can get one at anytime because the sign is mounted on the outside wall of my dad's garage. I will most likely be moving into his home later in the year so that sign will become mine.

That story is sort of ironic if you consider all the bitching that the precursor agency to KYTC did over US 60, thus forcing the Chicago to LA highway to get the number 66.

[hm insulators]

About the only road-related collectible I have (unless you count a few hundred of the old insulators from telephone poles; Truvelo saw them once) is a 1941 street map of the Los Angeles area. I think I have an old 1940's era California road map, too, now that I think of it.

[joseph1723]

I would say mine is my old style ON 101 junction marker, my ON 7 route marker, and my old style no parking sign. I don't have any old maps in my collection though.