Here are some pictures from a 1929 tour book put out by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways. It's a "slick" job with literally hundreds of shots of roads around the state. Unfortunately I didn't scan more :P
Here's a shot of US 309 "east of Weissport" in Carbon County. This location is somewhere southeast of JN 74 of the IH 476 PA TPK NE Extension.
Note that this is a "single slab" road; The white centerline was used to delineate no passing zones on curves and junctions.
This is an intersting one in a number of respects. Note what appears to be a flush central reservation. This may be the equivalent of a western "Suicide Lane".
Now this is a spiffy shot. This is US 6 in Bradford County (not be confused with Bradford, PA which is in McKean County), Just north of Limehills-near the current PA 409 junction. You're looking north. To your left is the Susquehanna River and the CSX railway. This alignment is overgrown and abandoned. This point where this is taken is now a car park of a restaurant to the right of the photograph. This is the "Roosevelt Highway" (after Theodore-not Franklin).
Here's the Irvineton Bridge in Warren County. This bridge was most likely just south of The US 6/US 62 south junction, 6 miles west of Warren, PA. The river is the Allegheny, and the road was PA 66 (now it's US 62). I don't know if it's been replaced by a more modern span.
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Page updated sort of on 22nd October 2k3.
Comrade Mr Yämamøto originally scanned the pictures
and produced the page.
Page transferred to Jeff Kitsko by Bob Chessick after Comrade
Mr Yämamøto copped a spaz and destroyed the original Highway Extravaganza.
Jeff Kitsko was rilly nice and gave the page back to Comrade
Mr Yämamøto after he got better.
So go to Jeff's site by hitting his spiffy license plate graphic:
you'll learn more about PA highways than anyone has a right to know :)
