Before I make any road trip, I trace the route along the aerial images on Google Maps or Bing Maps to see if I can find any old alignments. Even though I’ve visited US 40 in western Indiana more than once and thought I knew it well, I’m glad I still traced the route this [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘abandoned Indiana’
8 January 2009
Double abandonment
I found an abandoned schoolhouse on an abandoned alignment of an Indiana highway. I sure wish I weren’t so skittish about being caught trespassing, because I would really have liked to see the building up close!
14 February 2008
The National Road revisited
“I know!” someone at the highway maintenance barn exclaimed. “Let’s get drunk and go stripe some road!”
This and many other adventures, including an abandoned bridge, 10 miles of abandoned brick highway, and an 1830 stone arch bridge still carrying traffic, in my report on the Indiana and Illinois National Road, Revisited.
16 November 2007
A kink in the Road
Last year I wrote on my Roads pages about a trip I took with a friend down US 40 and the National Road across western Indiana. We enjoyed finding forgotten and sometimes abandoned segments of the road’s original alignment.
Since then, thanks to the gang at the American Road forum, I’ve discovered the Automobile Blue Book, [...]
26 May 2007
All about the old road to Bloomington
I’ve finished writing about my Bloomington road trip at my personal Web space. Every dead end and bit of abandoned pavement is described in excruciating detail at the link below.
http://www.jimgrey.net/Roads/SR37IndyBloomington/index.htm
