Carson Car Shops

Roads and Road Accessories

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Roads
Signs
Bridges

Road

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Concrete highway (1920's)

Two lane concrete highway. Built to a 1920 Nevada State Highway Department specification, specifically for the highway between Reno and Carson City. 21 feet wide with a Portland cement concrete pavement 15 feet wide.

Updated April 12, 2012 with better textures

Signs

Screenshot	Description	Source file(s)
	Lincoln Highway marker Concrete marker for the Lincoln Highway. Placed by Boy Scouts Sept 1, 1928, approximately every mile of the length of the highway. Version: TS 2009 and later
	Lincoln Highway sign Sign for the Lincoln Highway. Also available without a post (for placing on telephone poles, etc.) Version: TS 2009 and later
	Stop sign 1 Yellow stop sign. Standard design from 1924 until sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.
	Stop sign 2 Yellow stop sign. Standard design from 1924 until sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.
	Stop sign 3 Yellow stop sign. Standard design from 1924 until sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.
	Stop sign 4 Yellow stop sign. Standard design from 1924 until sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.
	Stop sign 5 Yellow stop sign. Standard design from 1924 until sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.
	Stop sign 6 Yellow stop sign. Standard design from 1924 until sometime in the 1930s or 1940s.
	Stop sign 7 White stop sign. My guess at what the standard design looked like from 1922 until 1924, when yellow was decided as a better background color.
	Stop sign 8 White stop sign. Another guess at what the standard design looked like from 1922 until 1924, when yellow was decided as a better background color.
	V & T RR Crossing Sign (old) Based on a 1930's photograph east of Carson City, NV. Old style, used to protect wagon crossings. Version: TS 2009 and later
	Southern Pacific Crossing Sign Based on a 1922 photograph in downtown Reno, NV. Version: TRS 2004 and later
	Old East Railroad Crossing sign Based on a photograph of a sign in Hingham, Massachusetts ca. 1861. Coloring is hypothetical. Text on the sign was dictated by state law as early as the 1830's, and reads "Railroad Crossing. Look out for the engine while the bell rings." Version: TRS2004 and later
	Old West Railroad Crossing sign Based on a photograph of a sign in Rathdrum, Idaho in 1888. Coloring is hypothetical. Version: TRS2004 and later

Bridges

Screenshot	Description	Source file(s)
	40' wide Truss road bridge Based on 2nd Street bridge in Reno, NV; ca 1918 3 levels of detail; 1066 / 537 / 307 polygons Updated July 28th 2011 to add normal maps and utilize a mesh library. Version: TS2009 and later	GMAX source files (433KB)
	30' wide Truss road bridge Two lane bridge with attached invisible road; by request 3 levels of detail; 1190 / 806 / 488 polygons Version: TS2009 and later
	15' wide Truss road bridge Single lane bridge with no attached road; by request. A spline version is also available. 3 levels of detail; 1189 / 780 / 489 polygons Version: TS2009 and later
	Bow truss road bridge Based on old Virginia St bridge in Reno, NV. Bridge was built in 1877; moved in 1906 to what is now known as Museum Dr (next to the Auto Museum) when the current Virginia Street bridge was built. Destroyed in a flood, 1950. 3 levels of detail; 944 / 582 / 292 polygons Version: TRS2004 and later	GMAX source files (600KB)
	Concrete road bridge Typical of bridges built in the US in the 1920's. A matching pier is also available. Version: TRS2004 and later	GMAX and .psd source files; 16MB