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Dec
28
Photos by the numbers: 55
June 13, 2008: On the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago, with the Sears Tower at left, during the 2008 roadgeek meet. I have been on the entire route of I-55 from Chicago to Memphis, although I wasn’t on the mainline … Continue reading
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Dec
27
Photos by the numbers: 54
October 7, 2008: End of freeway segment in Butler County, Kansas, east of Wichita. My best guess for the empty space beside the US 400 shield is the previous state route number. US 400 is a Frankenstein’s monster of a … Continue reading
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Dec
26
Register project on state championships
Comprehensive county-by-county list, sortable by county and sport with school and year-by-year search. Look at how many small schools have one or two boys’ or girls’ basketball championships. The Melrose boys’ basketball 1937 title is the only one in Monroe … Continue reading
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Dec
26
Historic Iowa DOT maps online
How did I not know about this?!? If you’ll excuse me, I have a rabbit hole to fall into.
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Dec
26
Photos by the numbers: 53
September 7, 2006: South end of US 53 in La Crosse. Preliminary plans had US 53 coming into Iowa, along what is now US 52 from the Minnesota border to Dubuque. But by the time the system was established, that … Continue reading
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Dec
24
Photos by the numbers: 52
May 11, 2007: Near my northwesternmost point on US 52, northwest of Minot. It’s 83 miles to the Canada border from here on 52. I kept going northwest just enough to get Renville County, about 67 miles away from the … Continue reading
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Dec
23
Photos by the numbers: 51
June 13, 2011: One of the many I-39/US 51 sign sets in Illinois. Personally, I think US 51 should be returned to the old alignment on IL 251, now that the interstate is complete.
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Dec
22
Photos by the numbers: 50
June 28, 2009: On Constitution Avenue between the Washington Monument and the White House. Possibly the closest US shield (or equivalent) to both. Notice that although it’s a new, one-panel sign (that used to show an arrow underneath), it retains … Continue reading
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Dec
21
Time zone lapse
Another post vaguely related to the Pinstripe Bowl… In the 1980s and 1990s, Iowa State only ventured out of the Central Time Zone four times aside from conference games against Colorado in even-numbered years. That has changed a little since … Continue reading
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