Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Road guides @ northeastroads

Since the completion of my school year in May, I've made several updates/new pages for northeastroads, one of the regional websites under the AA Roads family of webpages. The following are my contributions/edits:
I have more pictures that have been waiting on the back burner due to my being busy over here in Oregon. I've got a whole bunch of pictures of CT 9, as well as the opposite direction of the current coverage of CT 2, 3, and 15. If things start to slow down here, I'll get to work on those, otherwise I probably won't touch them until the middle of July.

1973 vintage OR 126 shield in Eugene, OR

This vintage OR 126 shield was found heading westbound on West 11th Avenue shortly before its intersection with Bailey Hill Road in Eugene.
OR 126 shield from 1973
Based on the words on the back of the sign, "Repl 1/17/73", this is probably the original OR 126 shield that was installed after the decommissioning of U.S. 126 in 1972. U.S. 126 existed from 1952 to 1972 before reverting to a state highway. Its eastern terminus is at a junction with U.S. 26 in Prineville, and its western terminus is at a junction with U.S. 101 in Florence.
Repl 1/17/73