You can pretty much tell what's going on here. US 40 and OH 4 started off a duplex in Springfield, and then when OH 41 joins, OH 4 wants out. It keeps Columbia Ave. a bit longer and heads north on Lagonda Ave., underneath the US 40 overpass of the railroad spur. US 40 then returns to the National Road, which has been a block to the south the whole time as Main St. (occasionally WB-only; the EB counterpart, High St., then becomes OH 41 on the east side of the city). Photos courtesy Doug Kerr.


Signage in the onramp to I-70 WB at Exit 97 in Columbus, courtesy Michael Summa via John Krakoff.


WB in Cambridge with US 22.


County Road 52 SB off of I-70 Exit 160, Sonora Rd. east of Zanesville, courtesy Michael Summa and taken in 1982. These black-on-white guide signs were old even then.


I-70 EB with its only US 40 concurrency, courtesy Doug Kerr.


WB and turning onto CR 214. See, while it's not cut out, at least the shield in the first photo is the right shape. I don't know why Belmont County has a modern square in use anywhere, unless it's to minimize confusion with a number of other blue shields. On 214 itself, I'm more intrigued by the I-470 shield.


Marion St. NB (from I-70), turning east on US 40 and looking at Allen St. (that concrete driveway-looking thing) to a sign at the corner of US 250 (and former OH 7/current interchange ramps) that tells you where all this is.


Incredibly, this shield still stands WB at Marion St., one of the last of its kind anywhere (and only Ohio and Georgia have these in any number at all). It's the easternmost exit on I-70, and since my page progresses from west to east, you know where the next photos are.


The original National Road truss bridge over the Ohio River, unused but thankfully not demolished, courtesy Doug Kerr. It's just to the north of the current boring one, which itself is just to the north of the even more boring I-70 bridge. The first two photos are looking east, and the last photo looks back west from approximately the WV state line.


One that Doug didn't get, this hangs at the eastern end of the old bridge. Black on white signs were phased out in the 1960s, so that tells you how long this bridge has sat unused.

Into Indiana on US 40
Onto OH 4
Onto US 22
Onto I-70
Onto I-470
To OH 7
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