NB courtesy Lou Corsaro, gone now.


One more old sign remains at US 322, southbound, and then there's some dreck replacing the other old stuff. The font is bad enough, but it's the eerie luminescence of that Delaware River Port Authority green at nighttime that gets to me.


If you want US 322 West instead of East, turn on Engle St. (signed from US 13 as to these two routes), and then come to these signs at Concord Road after crossing I-95. That connection to US 13 saves me from having to decide whether to put this sign on the 322 or the 95 page.


I believe this old keystone has not before been discovered by a roadgeek, or even been noticed for many years. Luckily, it was winter, so I caught this behind a parking lot.


Exiting the Church's Chicken in Sharon Hill (or else it's at Folcroft Ave., the next block down). It's embossed, it's on US 13, it goes here.


Wrong-type shields for the short closure of MacDade Blvd. between Springfield Rd. and Main St. in Darby. It wasn't a long detour for cars - maybe 300 feet extra driving distance - but trucks apparently had to go north to at least Provdence Road before coming back, a mile-plus long detour for a 1000-foot road. This apparently made truckers angry, so one of them flattened that sign and everyone was happier.


Small Philly shields southbound, and a very small and old Snow Emergency Route diamond atop the first photo.


In summer 2005, PA 13 traffic could follow the Baltimore Pike WB for a spell after US 13 left the Pike, and then turn south. Of course, since there is no PA 13, I imagine all the US 13 through traffic followed US 13.


Looking west on Baltimore Ave. and south on US 13, at the same spot as the photo atop this page.


Southbound where US 13 separates from Hunting Park Ave., which continues underneath Ridge Ave. (which becomes US 13 to the south) in the third photo. Kelly Dr. was formerly East River Drive, connecting to Wissahickon Drive which is now Lincoln Drive. Must have been some extra people to honor.


Philadelphia is allowed to break the rules, putting shields on one-piece green signs. Between these and shields looking like the one atop the page, you'll be hard-pressed to see another style anywhere in Philly.


More Philly green shields, heading south from Roosevelt Blvd. on Hunting Park Ave., Ridge Ave., and finally 34th St. after crossing the Schuylkill.


SB leaving the Roosevelt Boulevard multiplex with US 1. For a less angled view of the first photo, see Lou Corsaro's version on the US 1 page, link at bottom. At the southern end, US 13 traffic is directed to the local lanes, which soon drop off, while US 1 traffic is directed to the express (inner) lanes for the beginning of the Roosevelt Expressway freeway. Yes, it would be easy to extend the freeway up the middle of the Expressway, and no, I don't know why it hasn't been done yet.


These old airport signs are slowly disappearing, but this one still stands southbound at Grant Ave. The reason these are disappearing is that this is now Northeast, not North, Philadelphia Airport.


Century-old bridge still carries US Highway traffic, south of PA 63. Click to read a bit of history.


PA 413 NB. After the sun comes up, it looks similar to the Kelly Drive BGS's above. Click for daytime closeup.


Original concrete on the 1950's era freeway north of Philadelphia, courtesy Scott Colbert.


A northbound look of my own, from the Tyburn Rd. WB onramp.


South on Pine Grove Road in Morrisville, into the beginning of US 13. I traveled southbound that morning, which is why the photos have been getting darker as you read down the page.


The very end of US 13. That's right, after multiplexing with US 1, US 13 comes back to end there. The strangely bold end sign is posted on Pine Grove Rd. at the end of all the ramps and pavement associated with the 1/13 interchange, but 13 officially ends right at 1.

Onto Roosevelt Blvd. and the US 1/13 multiplex
Onto former US 13

Into DE on US 13
Into Philadelphia
Onto US 322
To I-95
Onto Kelly Drive to the Fairmount Park interchange
To I-76
Onto the US 1 freeway
US 13 on Steve Anderson's phillyroads.com
US 13 on Jeff Kitsko's pahighways.com
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