Tag: I-70
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A confluence of National Road and US 40 alignments near Vandalia, Illinois
The bonanza of abandoned old pavement along the Illinois National Road dries up just before Montrose, a little town just east of Effingham. Thence west, US 40 almost entirely follows the same alignment of the road from when Illinois paved it in concrete in the 1920s. From a postcard, here’s what that concrete looked like…
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The disrupted National Road in Ohio
For miles in Ohio, the old National Road emerges from underneath I-70 here and there.
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Then there was the time I-70 jumped out in front of my car
And then there was the time I-70 jumped out in front of my car. It was harrowing.