Was NV 5C ever signed as US 95A?

[Max Rockatansky]

I've seen a lot of conjecture that NV 5C in Las Vegas was once signed as US 95A.  NV 5C was aligned over Rancho Drive and Charleston Boulevard between Bonanza Road-Fremonte Street which functionally "was" a bypass.  The state invested into constructing a rail underpass during the 1949-1950 Fiscal Year on Charleston Boulevard but only ever referenced it as "5C."  I haven't seen a state highway map or AASHTO document which supports the existence of US 95A actually existing. 

FWIW, the Nevada Department of Highways was pretty good at documenting unauthorized US Route alternates on their state highway maps.  Las Vegas had quite a few over the years prior to 1976, but I never observed one applied to NV 5C.

[Mapmikey]

All traffic census reports 1940-66 refer to Charleston Blvd as NV 5C only.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010303410

[roadfro]

I happened to read this thread last week while I was on lunch, so went for a quick visit to the UNR library government collection...although I didn't have too much time to dive in.

They have copies of old NDOT internal documents, including a couple of "Log of U.S. Routes and Alternates" books from the late 1960s/early 1970s. While those logs did list things like US 95 Alt (with, IIRC, the multi-branch situation at Fernley before the advent of US 50 Alt), this route was not included. 

I also took a quick look at some of the traffic reports on the shelf and saw similar references to 5C but not 95 Alt. (Note that, even now, NDOT documents will often reference the underlying state route even if a special route might be [officially or unofficially] signed in the field—e.g. US 95 Truck around Hawthorne is referred to as SR 362 in the current SMH books; I-80 Bus routes are not inventoried in the SMH book but underlying SRs are, where applicable; etc. So that might not be definitive evidence, but it supports.)

I'm also pretty sure any map references I've ever come across to this being US 95 Alt were not NDOT publications. 

So without other evidence, I would lean towards SR 5C having not been signed as US 95 Alt by NDOT.

[Max Rockatansky]

That exactly was the take I was looking for.  I appreciate the input.