50 signs in 50 states

[agentsteel53]

Typo.  Should have been 184.  There is no 194 in Mississippi.

double typo - I should've said "former state route 94".  I don't recall offhand any old alignments of state routes getting the +100 designation, but I do recall 245 being the old alignment of US-45A (with 145 being the old alignment of US-45).  So if we choose to do 201-250, then it is good to note that 245 is the only Miss. state route beginning with 2.

[froggie]

I don't recall offhand any old alignments of state routes getting the +100 designation,

Some of the early signage plans for the Petal bypass had old MS 42 becoming MS 142, but these signs were not implemented in the field.  Otherwise, there are no known cases of former state routes even being considered for a 1xx designation.

So if we choose to do 201-250, then it is good to note that 245 is the only Miss. state route beginning with 2.

True, but for the 201-250 range, Mississippi also has I-220.

[agentsteel53]

I'd forgotten about I-220.  There is US-278 as well, if we do 251-300.  But the way the game is grinding along in the upper 100s, we may or may not get that far.

makes me wonder what number they'd use if they wanted to keep an old alignment of 278 in the system.  878?  106, harking back to its pre-US designation as MS-6?

[prenatt1166]

Since we seem to be hung up on 179, how about a Street View capture for WI 179?

The state list at TN 173 dropped both NC and TN. NC should still be in play.

Remaining: AL AK CT DE ID IA MA MI MN MT NC NE ND NH NM OH OR RI SD VT WV WI WY

added it to the list

TN was 174 and wasn't 158 used for NC?

21 states remain in Round 4:

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[agentsteel53]

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[rickmastfan67]

Heads up, as far as I know, we're down to only one route possible for WV.  According to Wikipedia, all that is left for WV is WV-193.  There is a WV-180, but we just used that number.  At least with WV-193, it intersects with I-64, so there should be a chance to get it with a state-named I-64 shield.

[hbelkins]

Heads up, as far as I know, we're down to only one route possible for WV.  According to Wikipedia, all that is left for WV is WV-193.  There is a WV-180, but we just used that number.  At least with WV-193, it intersects with I-64, so there should be a chance to get it with a state-named I-64 shield.

Not sure that I have a WV 193 photo with an I-64 marker as well. It's signed "To I-64, To US 60" from WV 2 and "To I-64, To WV 2" from US 60. And most of the times I've traveled that route I've been going north. I'd have to see if I have a southbound shot with it alongside a state-named I-64. But since neither US 60 nor I-64 travel through any other states with plain squares, a shot of it with US 60 -- which I know I have, since I photographed the "END" assembly -- should suffice.

[okroads]

AL 181:


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[hm insulators]

Takes care of HI.

On Kauai! Way to to!

[agentsteel53]

Iowa.  I do not believe any other state used cutout circles with no identifier.  Kentucky, Delaware, New Jersey, and Iowa are the three states that had circles in the cutout era, and the others had the state name all the way until they changed to black squares.  

(certainly no other state that borders Wisconsin and Minnesota has this feature - the white sign's control cities are a bit tough to make out, but they feature "Winona, Minn" and "De Soto, Wisc", as well as local "New Albion".)



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[corco]

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[Brandon]

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons,



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M185

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[prenatt1166]

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[agentsteel53]

I am quite sure 187 existed only in Wyoming.



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[prenatt1166]

reposting MA 183, courtesy of Jim Teresco



states remaining through 187:

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[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

Oh 188 in Lancaster

Down to the following for this round:
AK CT DE MT ND NH NM OR RI SD VT WV

[rickmastfan67]

189 to VT



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[agentsteel53]

hah, Rickmastfan posted the exact photo I was queuing up.  

too bad I couldn't post my US-189 from Connecticut (!).  It is next to a plain square 20 shield on a green JUNCTION sign, and therefore could be from any state.

so here's a really boring SD I-190, because I think that's the only possibility left for SD.  I don't think any of the US-16 states, other than South Dakota, also have an I-190.



anyone who spots a state-named SD I-190 will win a prize.  I have never been able to find one.  In fact, an I-190 from any state.  We don't have a single example in the shield gallery!  Neither Illinois, nor New York, nor Massachusetts, nor South Dakota.

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[rickmastfan67]

Where's the picture Jake?

[agentsteel53]

Where's the picture Jake?

would help if Firefox would know how to copy and paste.  Sometimes it just plain glitches.

[rickmastfan67]

Where's the picture Jake?

would help if Firefox would know how to copy and paste.  Sometimes it just plain glitches.

Hah, I mostly have that problem in IE.  Never in FF.

[agentsteel53]

I think it has to do with my processor load.  Right now, it's pretty high since I'm converting a video to MPEG.

[rickmastfan67]

I think it has to do with my processor load.  Right now, it's pretty high since I'm converting a video to MPEG.

Ah.  Figures.  And that comment about any state named I-190 shields.  I *might* have seen one in NY.  But don't quote me on that.

[Scott5114]

Ah.  Figures.  And that comment about any state named I-190 shields.  I *might* have seen one in NY.  But don't quote me on that.

oops

[xonhulu]

Since VT got taken care of with 189, and 200 needs to be saved for ND, I think that means we need 191 for MT:



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