Author Archives: Jeff

Apr 03

Photos by the numbers: 153

Posted on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

August 5, 2010: I left this picture big so you can see the “Oklahoma” inside the oddly shaped interstate shields. This is on I-40 approaching the east end of the multiplex. US 270 is hidden here.

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Apr 02

Walcott visitors center open

Posted on Monday, April 2, 2012, at 12:51 PM by Jeff

The welcome center at the World’s Largest Truck Stop replaces the one that closed in LeClaire. The move is actually  beneficial for travelers because now no matter how you come in to the Quad Cities, there is an eastern Iowa … Continue reading →

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Apr 02

Early history of each Iowa county

Posted on Monday, April 2, 2012, at 10:09 AM by Jeff

I’ve been looking for county information for a new project (great, but shouldn’t you be working on your old ones? -Ed.) and found that the Iowa Association of Counties digitized a book with a few paragraphs and important dates in … Continue reading →

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Apr 02

Photos by the numbers: 152

Posted on Monday, April 2, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

August 3, 2010: In the 1990s and 2000s, Missouri upgraded MO 152 to be a four-lane connector between I-29 and I-35 on the north side of Kansas City, but south of the airport. The use of Topeka as a control … Continue reading →

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Apr 01

Without a net

Posted on Sunday, April 1, 2012, at 12:46 PM by Jeff

Fifteen years ago, give or take a few months, I set up my first live website. For the first five years, I didn’t do much with it, setting up a few pages about the Titanic movie (!) and a couple … Continue reading →

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Apr 01

Photos by the numbers: 151

Posted on Sunday, April 1, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

August 10, 2007: Wrong-way multiplex for US 151, WI 32, and WI 57 in Chilton, Wisconsin. This isn’t the only time 151 is contrary; in Cedar Rapids, US 151 and US 218 have a wrong-way triplex with US 30. The … Continue reading →

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Mar 31

A dose of thoroughly useless data

Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at 12:41 PM by Jeff

The east-west part of Chicago’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, aka “the Ike” or I-290, which turns into Congress Parkway in downtown, is about one mile north of the Monona/Harrison-to-Linn/Johnson county line. (About 41°51’N.) In fact, if you add five to … Continue reading →

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Mar 31

Photos by the numbers: 150

Posted on Saturday, March 31, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

April 18, 2006: Guidance on I-280 approaching I-74. At a cloverleaf interchange on the south side of the Quad Cities, US 6 leaves I-74, then turns east at the airport, and then intersects US 150. US 150 used to go … Continue reading →

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Mar 30

Photos by the numbers: 149

Posted on Friday, March 30, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

October 13, 2006: South English. Keokuk County has seven state numbers — 1, 21, 22, 23, 78, 92, and 149 — but no US routes. (It also had IA 77 until 2003.)

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Mar 29

Photos by the numbers: 148

Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 7:00 AM by Jeff

August 21, 2006: Sign at the Missouri state line, 13 miles north of its south end near Maryville. Even-numbered highways in Missouri conventionally run east-west, but this is an exception because it was created to continue from an Iowa number. … Continue reading →

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