Google Street View

[freebrickproductions]

It looks like this side is burnt out. I couldn't manage to get a view of this side lit.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5631942 ... 6656?hl=en

Google may have managed to take all of their shots of that side when the light was off. It happens occasionally.

[NathanFromEngland]

Strange sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9961069 ... 6656?hl=en
I don't get it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9966198 ... 6656?hl=en

[ToledoRailfan]

Strange sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9961069 ... 6656?hl=en

Its job is to motivate drivers to drive safely. I wonder if there were several instances there of drivers not driving safely.

[freebrickproductions]

Strange sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9961069 ... 6656?hl=en
I don't get it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9966198 ... 6656?hl=en

Welcome to the South, where we have terrible road signs!

The second sign is referring to the speed bump right ahead, but isn't standard in the slightest. Seems almost no-one's looked at the MUTCD and seen what the official sign looks like, so they just write their own variant. For example, here in Huntsville, the city posts "Speed Humps Ahead" on their signs, even though they usually try to stick to the MUTCD as much as possible. My personal favorite though has to be "Slow Hump Ahead", which I spotted in Quincy, FL last year:
Slow Hump Ahead by freebrickproductions, on Flickr
Slow Hump Ahead by freebrickproductions, on Flickr

Though here's a "Slow Bump" sign found in Casa, AR:

I have to wonder if that's what the workers in the sign shop were thinking of doing with their wives that night...

Also, going back to the second link in your post, gotta love how they mounted the speed limit sign underneath the warning sign like that... Is the sign supposed to be the advisory speed, or is the speed limit along that road actually 10 MPH? It's just too confusing, and was only done so they could save money on one sign post!

Strange sign.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.9961069 ... 6656?hl=en

Its job is to motivate drivers to drive safely. I wonder if there were several instances there of drivers not driving safely.

Ain't official either. The closest sign to that was the "Slow Children at Play" signs that wound up being removed years ago from the MUTCD due to the fact that the FHWA found that they didn't really affect driver behavior all that much.

[ToledoRailfan]

4-way signal in Perrysville, Ohio.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6574036 ... 6656?hl=en

Kind of interesting push button setup as well.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6573683 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6574742 ... 6656?hl=en

There weren't any crosswalk signals there at the time. Sense those push buttons weren't there when Google Streetview came through a few months before Google came through the last time the crosswalk signals probably hadn't been installed yet.

[ToledoRailfan]

This 8'' signal in Castalia, Ohio has a 12'' light on the bottom.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.400007, ... 6656?hl=en
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Kind of an unusual intersection. It is probably the way it is because of how the road curves there. The signal beacon above the stop sign is also pretty cool.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3933829 ... 6656?hl=en
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Unusual Stop sign font.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0318577 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0307129 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0320071 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.032506, ... 6656?hl=en
There use to be English stop signs with a normal stop sign font in their place.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.031862, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0320052 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.0324945 ... 6656?hl=en

[ZachL]

This 8'' signal in Castalia, Ohio has a 12'' light on the bottom.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.400007, ... 6656?hl=en

A majority of beacons with turn indication are 12" even with 8" full-circle beacons

[freebrickproductions]

This 8'' signal in Castalia, Ohio has a 12'' light on the bottom.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.400007, ... 6656?hl=en

A majority of beacons with turn indication are 12" even with 8" full-circle beacons

Been an MUTCD regulation for arrows since like the late 50s or early 60s, IIRC. All arrows, no matter the speed limit, have to be 12 inch lenses on new signals.

[NathanFromEngland]

Damaged PEEK lenses.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6431348 ... 6656?hl=en

[freebrickproductions]

Damaged PEEK lenses.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6431348 ... 6656?hl=en

The bulbs behind the lenses must've been too high of a voltage, and/or have the lights behind them stay on for extended periods of time.