Cutout US 26 shield in the wild!

[Bickendan]

I didn't have time to pull out my camera upon seeing it, but there is at SW 6th Ave at Broadway in Portland a shield assembly with an I-405 and a (cutout) US 26 shield, replacing an older button copy sign.

[hotdogPi]

Is this any different from the cutout US 3 shields in Massachusetts?

(other than the number and location, obviously)

[corco]

So did they just copy the far superior state to the east?


Or is it something different?

[Bickendan]

So did they just copy the far superior state to the east?


Or is it something different?

Similar setup, minus the third shield.
Facing west, the assembly has
...........---->
NORTH...|....WEST
(I-405)-----(US 26)
.....|...............|
.....|...............|

With the reverse just behind that facing east, coming off of Broadway.
I don't recall the numbers being obnoxiously large, but it's hard to tell having just caught a glimpse of it.
Also, Idaho's landlocked. Oregon is superior just by having a coastline

[oscar]

So the one spotted in Portland is a borderless cutout (meant to go on a BGS), rather than like the ones in California, or Virginia (also bordered cutouts, without the "US" on Caltrans-spec markers)?

I see such borderless cutouts in places not known as cutout heavens, such as Indiana, or even in Maryland (just saw a pair at the exit from the park-and-ride at the junction of MD 424 with US 50/301).  I've always thought those were contractor errors, as the US 26 cutout in Portland and the one in the photo from Idaho might be.

I know Oregon resists "Californication", but Caltrans-spec cutouts would be a nice import.

[Bickendan]

The Caltrans spec would be ideal, but I'll take the borderless ones any day over the black square variety. I'll attempt to get a photo next week.