east of McConnellsburg
You call that a US shield?

Continuing east past the shield atop this page, to a different-colored hill sign, in fact, actually the wrong colors based on PennDOT tradition. These signs are designed to make you stop to read them if you're a truck, thus slowing you down and saving you for that escape ramp. In person, it looks more terrifying than this, maybe a 50% upgrade (50% is just a 30 degree angle - 100% is a 45 degree angle - so yes, it could be above a 100% grade, which is especially daunting).


Old EB shield.


See that concrete? You ain't kiddin', that's old 30 there. Just west of the amazing elephant museum, which trust me is amazing, if you're into elephants and being somewhat scared about others' sanity. The concrete seems to then get covered by asphalt, and then all pavement miraculously disappears, but the trail returns back to mommy and all is well in the end.


On one of many old stretches of US 30, west of Gettysburg and just west of PA 234 - click for closeup of the Abraham Lincoln portrait. The silly colors are meant to evoke the original trailblazing colors used for the Lincoln Highway.


We don't return you to your regularly scheduled programming. WB at PA 234, since US 34 has no branches.


Abbottstown signs, westbound.


EB at the beginning and in the middle of the US 30 freeway segment west of York, where all good shields accommodate three digits and all good signs are old and patched (this one for PA 74). PA 462 is original US 30 (Lincoln Highway) between York and Lancaster.


WB in the vicinity of I-83 (obviously), where for some reason Business I-83 ends at PA 181. I assume it's meant to turn right on US 30 and end at the I-83 interchange, though there is no signage to that effect. 181-Bus. 83 were the original N-S road through the area.


So THAT'S where it is! I thought I was already there, being in York and all. Taken eastbound.


Lincoln Highway nostalgia from the clock museum in Columbia. I assume the post is a recreation, though the street sign is certainly an original. The clock museum is right along the original Lincoln Highway (old US 30), now PA 462, so click the link to visit that highway.


The last remaining button-copy GS on the stretch of US 30 freeway from Lancaster toward York, found traveling westbound.


From Centerville Rd. NB, which now has the last button copy sign on that stretch of freeway, since the one above is gone.


3,690 miles passes really quickly on the Trans-Atlantic bridge from Lancaster.


The WB offramp to PA 23 into Lancaster. Funny, that says All Traffic Turn Right, but it looks like left turns are permitted. Maybe you'll have to visit the PA 23 page (link below) to find out more.


Westbound in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, older street sign and typical (for the area) WGAL town sign.


US 30 exits itself on the eastern edge of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, becoming a freeway, with cool button copy signage and an unusual shield-inside gore sign. The old route, continuing straight ahead, is the Lincoln Highway, and is linked below as Business US 30. US 30 was intended to be a freeway from here westward, connecting to the Lancaster bypass, but it never made it through the Amish farmlands, leading to tremendous backups on the two-plus-turn-lane roadway. Most of the time, there are about 10-15 miles of 20 MPH traffic - on a good day.


Blurry shot of an old PA 82 shield, US 30 WB while it's still a freeway west of US 202.


Old plastic SEPTA bus-stop sign, eastbound at Conestoga Road, PA 401.


At Wayne Ave. in the center of Wayne. Forget original Lincoln Highway, this milestone dates to well before the day of horseless carriages. It also provides fodder for levity after a long vacation. 13 minutes to pizza! 13 Migrants to Protest. You get the drift.

Blurry, but state-name, EB.


Philly-spec shield, as US 30 turns from Lancaster Ave. onto Girard Ave. Once upon a time, 30 went straight to Market St. (now PA 3), then headed east through Philadelphia to get to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Now, Girard takes 30 to I-676, which speeds traffic much more efficiently to the bridge.

Continue west past McConnellsburg on US 30
Onto I-676 and the I-676/US 30 duplex
Onto Business US 30
Back to US 30 main page

Into NJ on US 30
Onto PA 462
Onto I-83
Onto PA 181
Onto PA 23
Onto I-476
US 30 (in Chester County) on Steve Anderson's phillyroads.com
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