Kentucky-West Virginia Photos, Spring 2002

These are variousphotos from Kentucky and West Virginia, taken in the spring of 2002. This gallery was generated by Apple's iPhoto software. To view the full-sized photos, click on one of the thumbnails on this page. You will then be presented with navigation controls to view the images on individual Web pages as a slide show.

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What's wrong with this photo? "Chamber" is misspelled. On KY 11 at Slade, just south of the Mountain Parkway Exit 33.
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US 460 and KY 36 in Frenchburg, Ky.
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Jct KY 77 sign on US 460 in Menifee County.
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US 460 and KY 77.
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In the Red River Gorge, KY 77 and KY 715 form a loop.
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Crossing the Red River on KY 77 from Menifee into Powell county.
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Entering the Nada Tunnel on southbound KY 77. This is an old tunnel for a narrow-gauge logging railroad that has been converted to highway use.
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This sign greets travelers after they exit the Nada Tunnel.
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Junction signage for KY 15 and KY 11. The Mountain Parkway is in the background.
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Split of KY 15 and KY 11 southbound at Slade.
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KY 11, KY 15 and Mountain Parkway signage. Exit 33 for the Mountain Parkway is in the background.
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Farm machinery crossing sign on KY 11 in Fleming County.
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Old "hospital" sign on Business KY 11 in Flemingsburg.
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US 60 and KY 36 in Owingsville, marking the beginning of a wrong-way multiplex.
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Old US 60 sign in Winchester which has since been replaced.
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Old mileage sign to Natural Bridge State Park on US 60 east (West Lexington Avenue) in Winchester.
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Signage on KY 11/15 in Powell County at the KY 77 intersection. The Kentucky Scenic Byway sign has been replaced with an America's Byway marker.
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KY 77, KY 11 and KY 15.
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US 60, US 460, KY 11 and I-64 signs in downtown Mt. Sterling.
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Old US 60 and KY 11 signs on this assembly in Mt. Sterling.
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Old US 460 and KY 11 signs in Mt. Sterling.
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KY 646 signs on US 460 east in Montgomery County with a thunderstorm in the background.
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Old US 460 sign, which has since been replaced, on KY 213 in Montgomery County.
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KY 746 and KY 946 in rural Menifee county.
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This old KY 746 sign is mounted on a building in Wolfe County.
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Old "Bridges Freeze Before Roadway" sign which has lost its reflectivity, on the Mountain Parkway eastbound just after leaving I-64.
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After many many attempts at trying to get a shot of this sign assembly in Fleming County, the lighting was finally right. The KY 1123 sign was, at one time, a yellow curve sign that has been recycled.
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Also at the same intersection, this assembly shows that the KY 1325 sign had a previous life as a US 60 sign.
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Very old KY 57 sign in downtown Flemingsburg.
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Very old KY 559 sign in Flemingsburg.
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At the end of the ramp from east I-64 at the wV 152/WV 527 exit.
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Looking north at the end of WV 152 and the beginning of WV 527. This is the old route of US 52.
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Odd WV 527 sign with rounded corners.
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End signage for WV 527.
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I-64 and WV 152 at the end of WV 527.
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End signage for WV 75 at Lavellette, south of Huntington.
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End signage for Alt WV 10 at WV 10 south of Huntington.
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It was an election year when I photographed the "Y" at the south end of Alt WV 10.
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WV 10 and WV 3 signs at Salt Rock.
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This sign is located on WV 3 just outside Hamlin. It's significant to me because my grandfather's family came from the Mud River area of Lincoln County, WV, and this road leads to that area and the spot where my ancestors were from.
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WV 3 runs through Hamlin and at this time, a closure of WV 10 was in place.
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This is the southern end of WV 34 just outside Hamlin.
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This sign assembly has been replaced, but the font on the WV 34 sign is not something usually seen in West Virginia.
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The end of WV 34 with the Detour WV 10 sign in place but covered up.
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City limit sign at Hamlin, home of my paternal grandfather's family.
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More WV 3 and Detour WV 10 signage in Hamlin.
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This is the westbound view from WV 3 of the signage for Upper Mud River Road.
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End signage for WV 3 at West Hamlin.
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This is the eastern terminus of WV 37.
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More from the terminus of WV 37.
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Closeup of WV 37 and WV 10 signs.
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On WV 10 at Chapmanville. Note the older US 119 sign on the right.
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This is the northern terminus of WV 44 at Logan.
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End signage for WV 73 at US 119 outside Logan. WV 73 is the four-lane connector route built between new US 119 and Logan.
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Two different styles of US 119 shields.
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Back at the intersection of WV 73 and WV 44. WV 44 is the old route of US 119.
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At the end of WV 44. At one point WV 44 was routed to turn left here and end at US 119 a few miles west, but that signage has been truncated.
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Exit signage on US 119. The WV 10 sign was added later; originally the sign was only for WV 73.
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The WV 10 sign has been added here as well. This is at the end of the ramp from northbound US 119 to WV 73.
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The end of WV 73 at WV 10 in Logan.
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This is the beginning of WV 17, an old route of US 119, at Stollings, south of Logan.
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Truck route signage on WV 17 just prior to the road's end at WV 10. This is to allow trucks to bypass a very low-clearance railroad underpass.
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The end of WV 17 at WV 10, showing the low underpass.
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On WV 10 at Man, showing the construction underway at the time the photo was taken.
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This is the terminus of WV 80 during the time WV 10 was under construction.
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Intersection of WV 80 and US 52 at Gilbert.
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This is looking north on US 52 at the southern terminus of WV 44, which is an old routing of US 119. At this spot US 52 briefly enters the very southern tip of Logan County but the county line crossings to and from Mingo County are not signed.
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The terminus of WV 44. When US 119 was routed through this area, US 119 and US 52 had a wrong-way multiplex from here to Williamson.
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End signage for WV 65, which was extended from US 52 at Delbarton to WV 49 at Matewan a few years ago.
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This sign shows that the bridge from Matewan to Buskirk, Ky. was once signed as WV 68.
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WV 49 signs with rounded corners as you enter Matewan, WV from Kentucky.
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This photo shows a WV 65 sign with rounded corners as opposed to the traditional shape of the West Virginia route marker, evidenced by the WV 49 sign.
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This is the southern end of WV 49, crossing into Kentucky.
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This KY 194 sign greets drivers when they cross into Kentucky from West Virginia.
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Looking back into West Virginia and the beginning of WV 49.
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West Virginia HARP route and county route signage on WV 49.
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WV 65 junction sign on northbound WV 49.
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Destination signage on WV 49 at Matewan.
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KY 1056 and KY 319 signage in Pike County, Ky., west of Matewan, WV.
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On US 52/119 north of Williamson.
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Sign showing that US 52/119 crosses into Kentucky briefly.
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These US 52 and 119 signs are in Kentucky. The crossing back into West Virginia is in the background.
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Good old KKK Byrd -- namesake of just about every public works project in West Virginia.
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Exit signage for US 52 at the 52/119 split.
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Overheads at US 52/119 split.
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Northern terminus of WV 65 at US 52.
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Closeup of US 52 signs at WV 65's northern end.
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North US 52 and KY 292 sign, manufactured by West Virginia, at Kermit.
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These are Kentucky-installed KY 40 and KY 292 signs located in Kermit, WV.
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At the end of the bridge linking Warfield, KY and Kermit, WV.
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The end of the Russell Williamson Bypass in Inez, Ky., is the end of KY 645.
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Wrong-way multiplex on the Inez bypass.
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This is the spot where KY 3 intersects KY 321, a former routing of US 23.
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South KY 3 and KY 321 signs.
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KY 3051 is the access route to Jenny Wiley State Park and at one time was posted as KY 304.
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Split of KY 321 and KY 3 north of Prestonsburg.
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Upcoming end of KY 3 at US 23/460. This portion of KY 3 is a new connector that was built when the four-lane US 23 was built, and at one point US 23/460 ended at the intersection in the background and was routed on this portion of what is now KY 3.
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US 23, US 460 and KY 1100 signage at the end of KY 3.
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US 23 and US 460 signs.
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This is a goof, a few miles from where I grew up on KY 52 in Lee County. It should be "Heidelberg," not "Hiedelberg.

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