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    Mr. Jim's Fund Stickers

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    4 hours ago, Jagannatha said:

    Well, I see no new design submissions as of yet so I doubt any will be available in the time frame we need. I certain something can be arranged for the people who donate though, so  they no worries... :)

     

    You do know this thread is over 9 years old, right? ?

     

    It's really just here for historical reasons. :aok:

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    Train Spotting

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    Jump forward several years and I was living in another city in another state and obviously with a new group of friends.  Freight trains used to pass through the city and very low speeds.  Most of these trains were very long and usually had a handful or more of empty box cars on them, with the doors open.  We would hop in them, along with out bikes for a quick and easy, albeit dangerous way to get across town. Really surprised no one ever got seriously hurt or killed :blink: Although at least one bike tire & wheel were not so lucky :nono:

     

    One day I remember two of us we were going to go to another friends who lived about 2 miles south of town.  Luckily there was a train passing through town, headed south!  What luck we thought!  So we hopped it, with the intent of getting off about a mile later, before it was at a speed to fast to jump from as it accelerated into farm lands.  We were bs'ing and just screwing around and before we knew it that jump point was long gone and the train was hauling-***!!! :huh:  When it finally started slowing again, we jumped off and eventually figured out that we were in the next heavily populated city... about 50 or so miles south of home!  Having no way to get back, we had no choice but to call one of our moms.  A tense couple rounds of Rock Paper Scissors resulted in a "win" for me, so Travis reluctantly placed a collect call to his house.  Lucky for us his mom was not home but her boyfriend was.  He drove down and picked us up and in exchange (aka blackmail) for not telling our moms, we had to do a bunch of crap for him for the rest of the summer.  Apparently he even told Travis's mom that the collect call on the bill was from his brother... as far as I know, neither of our moms ever found out what we really did that day!   :lol:

     

    So did we learn from that?  Come on seriously? We were in 5th grade and continued doing it through middle school too! :rofl:

     

     

     

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    Train Spotting

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    2 minutes ago, mjotrainbrain said:

     

    That sounds like a lot of fun!  All the kids had to love that.

     

    Yeah most of the kids in the neighborhood were in first grade or so at that time and we all loved it, it was a blast. :aok:

     

     

     

     

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    Train Spotting

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    21 minutes ago, RainGoat said:


    Hoquiam, Gray’s Harbor is literally the rainiest area of WA outside of the Hoh perhaps. Reminds me of when I lived in PDX & mentioned Seattle & they would say @Oh, I could never live there, it rains too much!”. Sadly, by comparison, they were right!

     

    Yep it is wet there for sure, but it is often very very nice as well. Lived in Hoquiam and Aberdeen in the early 80s, after moving from the beach, and then again in Aberdeen in early 90s for a combined total of about 8 years. If it wasn't for the crappy economy, which can mostly be blamed on the hits on the timber industry, it'd be a better place to live. Instead it's just been getting worse over the past 20 years.

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    What did you do to your Pathfinder today?

    in The Garage

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    1 hour ago, Wacky_Pathy said:

    Yes they do. I don't mind the look it, just wanted something different and I'm in the process of blacking out the entire thing. Do you ever get complements on your Pathy when people call it a Jeep?  lol

     

    Don't recall anyone ever calling it a Jeep, 4Runner yes, but not a Jeep.

    Train Spotting

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    On 10/29/2018 at 7:00 PM, Slartibartfast said:

    For anyone who finds themselves on the dry side of Washington state, there's a little train museum near Reardan that's worth a stop. It's small, but they've got some cool stuff in there. https://inlandnwrailmuseum.com/about-us

     

    Dry side of Washington state? Blasphemy! everybody in any other part of the nation knows that it rains 24/7/365 everywhere in the Pacific Northwest and there is no sun, ever... just ask them! :lol:

     

    Okay so on a serious note, I've never been there myself but one day I'll have to stop by. But this thread does remind me of my early childhood living in Hoquiam, WA, very near to a sawmill with train service. The regular engineer who ran in and out of that on a daily basis during the summer and some weekends used to stop and pick up all the neighborhood kids and give us a ride for five blocks, to the edge of our neighborhood, and drop us off and we'd all walk back home happy as can be. It may have only been five blocks but it was freaking awesome! :Aok:

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    October 2018 TotM Voting

    in Truck of the Month

    Posted




    BTW, the vote buttons don’t show up on TapaTalk which is what I use 90% of the time.
     


    Tapatalk strikes again! :thumbsdown:

    Pretty sure that has been an ongoing problem with TT, I remember reading several years ago that they had no plans of ever supporting polls in the app... have I ever told you how much I despise everything tapatalk... especially their "customer" (forum staff) support?

    OK OK, back to the actual... err, current issue...

    Press the menu button in the upper right of the app and choose Web View, pick your browser of choice if the option is presented. Be aware that you may need to log in, but you should now see the thread in NPORA's built in mobile theme or full desktop view. Either way, you should now see the poll and be able to vote (if your logged in of course.)



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