Indiana Roads - US 40 - Stilesville and E.

US 40, Stilesville and east



EB at and onto one last old alignment, at the top of Miles Rd. west of Plainfield. This one disappears pretty quickly.


Looking west where it feeds back into current US 40.


To our joy, through those trees there is a path, paved in asphalt decades old that once carried rubber tyres in an age when some people still spelled tyres with a y.


Hark, through yonder trees, an ancient bridge a-beckons!


To the south, modern US 40 crosses this tributary of White Lick Creek. I can't tell if that bridge carries half or all of US 40 (it's a divded highway now) - the WB side could have been built as the original two-lane highway bypassing the bridge I'm standing on, or it could all have been done at once.


Eastward as far as I can go.


Looking north from the shoulder of US 40 at the old bridge. The last photo looks a little west; the first half of the old bridge is now over trees, not water (if it ever was over the water).


Back west to the cars parked on the open stub.


US 40 leaves Washington St. on the west side of Indianapolis, an unwilling victim of the state's plan to take all of the highways out of downtown.


Washington St., former US 40 through Indianapolis before it was so rudely wrenched away, about to gain its designation back in the EB direction. New overpasses in Indianapolis, and possibly elsewhere in Indiana, have the state logo on them. Old signs have non-reflective backgrounds on them - click the first photo for a nighttime version.


US 40 WB joining I-465 at the same spot for its ride around the blocks. The second sign isn't button copy, but it has a black-background US 40 shield and an arrow that's seriously short of square (as bent arrows are supposed to be).


Let's go for a long eastbound ride from there, crossing Brandywine Creek, all the way to Richmond for the last photo.


EB almost at Ohio, second photo courtesy Doug Kerr. Those are actually the third photo's signs in the background of the old Pennsylvania RR overpass (with SHIELD!) photo, and you'll want to click on said third photo for a closeup.


WB at the same interchange, showing just how close I really am to Ohio. Not kidding.

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