Sumo HPS and tiny HPS?

ugh i see this too often. sometimes even different color shoe boxes or a square sag lens shoe box and a rectangle flat lens showbox together.

Maybe they figure no-one will notice the lights in parking lots (I wonder if people who aren't into lights really notice?)

I've also seen mis-matched fixtures on poles along streets, or in intersections too

Yeah most people don't even notice lights LOL.

There are a line of shoeboxes just like this on Interstate 270 in Gaithersburg, and it's intentional!

The 401 used to have lights like this in the mercury days, the inner lights lighting the express lanes were 400w B2215s while the outer lights lighting the collector lanes were 700w B2213s.

Up in Franconia Notch Park in the White mountains of NH there are some shoe boxes in I-93 identical to the one on the left that were originally MV but were converted to 250W HPS in the early 90s according to an old timer i was talking to at an infomation desk. He didn't mention lamp types of course but he said he hates the "orangish lamps in these lights over the older whitish lamps. So what if the new lamps only use 250W? In the winter it makes the beautiful mountain snow look like sherbet and in the summer they make the pines and spruces look dead and on fire." He was a very nice guy. He said in the 80s the first "orangey" lights started appearing outside Froanconia notch on the sections of I-93 owned by the NHDOT. (NHDOT uses tall truss poles with 12-14ft arms). He said in the early 2000s all the "whitish lights" were removed from the Mass state line up to Vermont (though i saw one 60s M-400 that was abandond). The lights that did the mass-replacement were new rounded nose M-250A2s. The older 80s lights were 250W HPS M-250R2s FCOs, as there are some. I saw some M-400A2s as well that looked to be from the 80s as well.

The utility poles had M-250A2s as well but they were the mid-design (mid 90s version) with the rounded top and flat nose. These were 150 and 250W HPS with a few 100W HPS ones mixed in. I also saw a couple M-400 FCOs and a glass-less M-400 split door (that i took a pic of).