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[US 28 (future US 26), 1938.] In the middle of downtown John
Day, US 395 meets its next major US highway, US 26 (which we saw
advance signage for way back in Riley in Part 18). During US
395's first signage in Oregon, however, this was actually the
junction with US 28, now decommissioned. US 28 was part of the
original 1926 Federal highway grid and ran entirely in Oregon
between Ontario, OR and Florence, OR for a distance of 462
miles. By 1937, it was truncated to Eugene. However, with
AASHTO's disapproval of US highways entirely within one state,
it was an obvious target for dismantling and was first absorbed
into the 1951 extension of US 26, designating the portion from
Prineville to Eugene as US 126 in 1952, then later
decommissioned outright as OR 126 in 1962, restoring the old
road through to Florence.  For its part, US 26 was (in 1926)
itself an insignificant non-trunkline route bet