MoDOT – Division No. 9 Operations Route 19 Shannon Co (1950) [107_003]

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Eight segments showing road work and repair work.

Part 1: Division No. 9 Operations Route 19 Shannon Co: Lorain bucket crane; dumping sand or fine gravel on a road; grader; shot from inside a truck driving down the road; Galion graders helping convert a dirt or gravel road to asphalt.

Part 2: Bituminous Deck US 66 Webster County (filmed at intersection of US Highway 66 (Route 66) and Routes Y and M in Conway, Laclede County/Webster County line): lots of regular traffic going by, including a car carrier truck and ice cream truck.

Part 3: Spot Patching US 40 Boone County and US 36 Macon County: patching potholes with asphalt as traffic drives by.

Part 4: Filling Joints and Removing Surplus Joint Material: firing tar.

Part 5: Mowing Right of Way: two men on mowers hitched to a tractor; men driving tractor mowers.

Part 6: Trimming Hedge with Power Mower: mowing a highway median.

Part 7: Patching Concrete with Limestone: men shoveling limestone into a hole in the road while others tamp it down with jackhammers and finish it off with water and gravel.

Part 8: Surface Treatment: treating a dirt road with oil, then gravel/sand mixture; Greyhound bus bound for Jefferson City drives by a Missouri Petroleum Products Company tanker; oil/tar repairs.

(A film by the Missouri State Highway Commission.)

Rights: Public domain. Please credit the Missouri State Archives RG107 Missouri Department of Transportation Collection.