Recent content by cranberrydavid

If you're going out on the water, this is the best navigational tool out there. And it's all free! Raster Navigational Charts: NOAA RNCs

As my partner and I rolled into K-Falls on a March afternoon in ‘86 we noticed the yard was fuller than any I’d ever seen, and we knew something was wrong. When our boxcar came to a stop in the yard we jumped out and started walking south along the service road toward the SBD hop-out point. No...

This was back in March 1982. My buddy Dan and I had just figured out how to ride freights a couple months before. When you’re just learning is when you screw up most, but it makes the best stories once some time has passed. Dan and I had decided to catch the BN northbound from Seattle Interbay...

I’ve been searching this site several days now. This is a VERY cool place! That map download is amazing. Thanks Widerstand. About me. During the 80’s I worked in the Alaska fish canneries in the summers. I’d make enough to live and travel the rest of the year, mostly based out of Seattle and...