The 1-2-3 Road Sign CHALLENGE!!

[kphoger]

Texas FM-1547, courtesy of the Stuve-Ball.

[chays]

This might be the end of this game.

FM-1548 might be the most insignificant FM road yet.  2 miles in the middle of nowhere, beginning and ending rather randomly, with one intersecting road with GSV so old you can't make out any numbers. (https://www.google.com/maps/place/FM1548,+Shamrock,+TX+79079/@35.0293471,-100.3060462,13.16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x87aa698f2fee2b5b:0x11011656795165ff!8m2!3d35.033547!4d-100.291523)
Nothing on Stuve's or Formulanone's pages.  Nothing on aaroads.

The Kentucky 1548 was decommissioned in 2005, so no photolog!

No A- or B- roads.  Can't easily find anything in Spain, France, Bulgaria, or Malaysia (at least can't find signs).  Can't find anything even after using multiple languages for roadsign or highway.  Cullman County, AL, seems to have every other 15xx route other than 1548.

The perfect storm.  Who lives near Shamrock, TX, and can go get a snap?  Consider it a Christmas gift to the forum.

[kphoger]

And it looks like the user on the Texas bikers website who nabbed 1548 must have it in a private album, or else he has removed it from photobucket.

[hbelkins]

There's probably a Virginia secondary 1548 somewhere.

[chays]

There's probably a Virginia secondary 1548 somewhere.

There is, Bellevue Ct, in Fredericksburg.  There is perfectly clear GSV of the sign (https://goo.gl/maps/HvJ6tXzjSPm) but I'll wait a bit in case someone has something up their sleeve.  Trying to keep the challenge untainted.

[kphoger]

Malaysia

I don't think that class of route even has shields in Malaysia.

[formulanone]

Thailand has some four-digit shields; but after 1325, there's nothing until the 2000s (just a few).

Edit: I was playing around with the Cullman County GIS, and found County Road 1548. There is a Street View of it, even though Google Maps can't find it.

I should be able to get a photo of CR 1548 in the field tomorrow.

[formulanone]

Cullman County Road 1548:

[kphoger]

Cullman County Road 1548:

Tell me you drove 70 miles out of your way to grab that picture.  Please.

[kphoger]

Off to the bikers...

[formulanone]

Cullman County Road 1548:

Tell me you drove 70 miles out of your way to grab that picture.  Please.

Luckily, it was located vaguely halfway between my project and home. Maybe 40 miles “out of the way”, but when there’s roads to clinch...that’s not too far away.

Then again, my projects could be anywhere in North America, so I got lucky.

[chays]

Cullman County Road 1548:

Tell me you drove 70 miles out of your way to grab that picture.  Please.

Luckily, it was located vaguely halfway between my project and home. Maybe 40 miles "out of the way" , but when there's roads to clinch...that's not too far away.

Then again, my projects could be anywhere in North America, so I got lucky.

You are awesome for grabbing this! 
What exactly are you projects?

[formulanone]

Cullman County Road 1548:

Tell me you drove 70 miles out of your way to grab that picture.  Please.

Luckily, it was located vaguely halfway between my project and home. Maybe 40 miles “out of the way”, but when there’s roads to clinch...that’s not too far away.

Then again, my projects could be anywhere in North America, so I got lucky.

You are awesome for grabbing this! 
What exactly are you projects?

I do IT work for vehicle sales and services. Usually, I’m in the Southeast US, but sometimes they send you where you’re needed — last-moment things pop up — and usually means flying 35-40 weeks of the year, so can get home for the weekends (weather permitting...two cancellations this year involved unexpected Saturday travel).

Fortunately, they try to keep us as close as possible just before the holidays; thus, a little meandering between Birmingham and Huntsville was easy enough.

(I think FM 1053’s timing was the only one that coincided with another project.)

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[chays]

Kentucky 1551.

From the Kentucky DOT photolog

[kphoger]

Texas FM-1552, from corco's TX-78 page

[chays]

FM-1553

From corcohighways.org

[chays]

[chays]

FM-1555.

Credit to biker dude bmcdonau

[kphoger]

Eric Stuve's pictures of FM-1556 are really blurry, so I'll hold off.

[kphoger]

...although that same biker dude has us covered through 1558, if all else fails.

[chays]

Same biker dude

[formulanone]

Leon CR 1557 in Tallahassee:


(Haven't had much from Florida until now.)

[chays]

[kphoger]

Texas FM-1559
Photo by Eric Stuve