Daily Picture Challenge!

[TBKS1]

AR-5 + AR-321 + AR-367 by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

MY GOD!! How does this even happen??? This is a frankensign if I've ever seen one...

At least its a little better than the GINORMUS APLs just beyond this post... but still...

And then... there is the sign salads mixed in with the APLs... a big-honking cluster of shields, plaques, and arrows bolted together on posts like..... I cannot finish this simile...

There's a lot of construction going on along (what will eventually become I-57) US-67/167, and I guess they just needed to improvise somehow. It does look a bit strange but it works!

[US71]

AR-5 + AR-321 + AR-367 by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

MY GOD!! How does this even happen??? This is a frankensign if I've ever seen one...

At least its a little better than the GINORMUS APLs just beyond this post... but still...

And then... there is the sign salads mixed in with the APLs... a big-honking cluster of shields, plaques, and arrows bolted together on posts like..... I cannot finish this simile...

There's a lot of construction going on along (what will eventually become I-57) US-67/167, and I guess they just needed to improvise somehow. It does look a bit strange but it works!

What are they doing at this exit? I remember it being somewhat of a clusterf*ck.

[TBKS1]

AR-5 + AR-321 + AR-367 by TheInstrumentalist, on Flickr

MY GOD!! How does this even happen??? This is a frankensign if I've ever seen one...

At least its a little better than the GINORMUS APLs just beyond this post... but still...

And then... there is the sign salads mixed in with the APLs... a big-honking cluster of shields, plaques, and arrows bolted together on posts like..... I cannot finish this simile...

There's a lot of construction going on along (what will eventually become I-57) US-67/167, and I guess they just needed to improvise somehow. It does look a bit strange but it works!

What are they doing at this exit? I remember it being somewhat of a clusterf*ck.

I'm pretty sure they're expanding the road. But then again, I could swear that the strip of road is always being worked on though...

[empirestate]

How about barrels used to hold up a stop sign?  The barrel on the ground is obviously deformed, but I didn't remember that about the picture when I thought of it.


Over the past few years as streets have been repaved in Auburn, the contractor has used wire strung through the handles of barrels to hold up road work signs, which can be seen in this Street View image.

This is not what I had in mind, but it is unusual.

I may start a thread for these types of pics, "unusual barrels and cones"...

I feel I would be remiss at this point not to remind you all of this.

[MCRoads]

4/23/17 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

I would prefer both pictures of the tunnel itself, and the signs for it, but that isn't required.

Signage may be:

Height Restrictions
Cargo Ristrictions
Inspection Stations
Tunnel Closed If...
Etc.

[hotdogPi]

4/23/17 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

[Jim]

4/23/17 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

Lincoln Tunnel entrance in Manhattan.  June 1, 2014.

[US71]

4/23/17 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

US 98 approaching the Bankhead Tunnel

[oscar]

4/23/17 4/24/18 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

BTW, the Challenge was first posted on 4/24/18. I've corrected the date above.

I have lots of tunnel photos from Alaska and Hawaii. I'll start with the Anton Anderson auto/rail tunnel to Whittier AK, which is about 2.5 miles long. The tunnel was originally built in the early 1940s as rail-only, with rail shuttles used to take autos to and from Whittier, but ca. 2000 was converted to dual use.



^ The west tunnel portal, showing where the Alaska Railroad tracks merge with one lane of auto traffic. Rail and auto traffic are carefully synchronized in three phases: eastbound cars/trucks; westbound cars/trucks; and rail traffic in either direction.



^ The staging area for the west portal. Trucks go into the right lanes, so they can bring up the rear after cars go into the tunnel.



^ The east portal, as an Alaska Railroad passenger train exits the tunnel on its way to drop off or pick up passengers at the Whittier ferry dock.

[formulanone]

4/24/17 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

Biggus Diggus for I-90 in Boston:


US 1 underneath Fort Lauderdale's south runway:


Allegheny Tunnel on the Pennsylvania's Turnpike:

[Mapmikey]

4/24/18 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

Tunnel under Havana Harbor in Cuba

Mapmikey Sept 2017

[oscar]

4/24/18 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

Some of my Hawaii tunnel photos:



^ The west portal of the Olowalu Tunnel on HI 30 in west Maui, with vertical clearance signs.



^ The west portal of the Middle Street tunnel west of downtown Honolulu, for only the eastbound lanes of Interstate H-1, with a left-shoulder vertical clearance sign.



^ The east portal of the Tetsuo Harano Tunnels, on Interstate H-3 north of Honolulu, about a mile long through the Koolau Range.

[Jim]

4/24/18 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

Here's a "Falling Rock" before one of the tunnels on South Dakota's Needles Highway.  This from July 18, 2003.

[oscar]

Something from each of Hawaii's other tunnels on the highway system (there's a private tunnel on Kauai I haven't been on, and two tunnels into the Diamond Head crater on Oahu):



^ The short cut-and-cover Hospital Rock tunnels on Interstate H-3.



^ The east portal of one of the two sets of the Pali Tunnels on HI 61.



^ The east portal of the Wilson Tunnels on HI 63. Both the Wilson and Pali Tunnels were the only tunnels connecting Honolulu to Kaneohe and Kailua, until Interstate H-3 and its tunnels were completed in 1997.

[jflick99]

4/24/18 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

Chipman Road Tunnel in Lee's Summit, MO. Photo credit to Clark Vance at bridgehunter.com (Photo #4)

[formulanone]

4/24/18 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

More tunnels...

LA 3040 in Houma, Louisiana:


George Wallace Tunnel on I-10 in Mobile, Alabama:


Big Walker Mountain Tunnel on I-77 in Virginia:

[MCRoads]

George Wallace Tunnel on I-10 in Mobile, Alabama:

[/quote]

OOhh, such good memories of that tunnel. This is the first tunnel I had ever experienced, and the three years I lived in Pensacola, we went through it like 5 times. But I still remember every detail...

4/23/17 ––> Challange: pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

US 98 approaching the Bankhead Tunnel

I do remember that there was another tunnel in mobile, and that it was for US-98 Main, but I only went thru it once. I wish I had been thru it more, as the change in scenery from the bay side to the city side rivals the Ft. Pitt, IIRC.

Speaking of, there are (surprisingly) no pics of the Ft. Pitt Tunnel, or Liberty, and squirrel Hill... Get on it Pittsburgers!

[paulthemapguy]

4/24/18 Challenge: (sic) pictures of tunnel signage, and tunnels. Large underpasses, as in by length, will count.

The only photo I could find was this tunnel on US199 at the California-Oregon border.


IMG_1039 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[MCRoads]

New challange!!

Challange: ––> Pictures of Bridges! Over water, or long viaducts. NO OVERPASSES PLEASE!! The bridges must be of fairly substantial length.

[hotdogPi]

4/25/18: Pictures of Bridges! Over water, or long viaducts. NO OVERPASSES PLEASE!! The bridges must be of fairly substantial length.

WWI Memorial Bridge; US 1; NH/Maine border

Zakim Bridge southbound

[US71]

Challenge: ––> Pictures of Bridges! Over water, or long viaducts. NO OVERPASSES PLEASE!! The bridges must be of fairly substantial length.

Define "substantial length"


Faux covered bridge over Clifty Creek near Clifty, AR


Missouri Pacific Railroad and old US 62 over George's Creek
near Yellville, AR

[Jim]

Challange: ––> Pictures of Bridges! Over water, or long viaducts. NO OVERPASSES PLEASE!! The bridges must be of fairly substantial length.

Here's the Chain of Rocks bridge between Illinois and Missouri, from the Illinois side, north of St. Louis.  July 22, 2005.

[MCRoads]

Challange: ––> Pictures of Bridges! Over water, or long viaducts. NO OVERPASSES PLEASE!! The bridges must be of fairly substantial length.

Define "substantial length"


Faux covered bridge over Clifty Creek near Clifty, AR


Missouri Pacific Railroad and old US 62 over George's Creek
near Yellville, AR

I would prefer if it was at least a couple hundred feet, but these are really neat bridges! good finds!

[US 89]

Challenge: ––> Pictures of Bridges! Over water, or long viaducts. NO OVERPASSES PLEASE!! The bridges must be of fairly substantial length.

Here's another view of the Chain of Rocks Bridge, from eastbound I-270 (the New Chain of Rocks Bridge).



I don't know if it has a name, but this is the I-70 bridge over the Missouri River west of Columbia, MO:

[oscar]

Challenge: ––> Pictures of Bridges! Over water, or long viaducts. NO OVERPASSES PLEASE!! The bridges must be of fairly substantial length.

Here are two photos of different parts of the Admiral Cleary bridge within the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii. The first photo focuses on the unusual retractable pontoon part of the bridge, that can be pulled out of the navigation channel if needed. The second shows the fixed part of the bridge, including widened support piers with room for the pontoon when it's retracted. The total length of the bridge is about 4700 feet.

Until the bridge was built, ferries were used to shuttle sailors and cargo between Ford Island and the rest of the base.