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    JWPJWP Posts: 35,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 12, 2026 6:45AM


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    TwobitcollectorTwobitcollector Posts: 4,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 12, 2026 8:11AM

    By 10:30 today the track was cleared.

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    PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 47,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    That pic always makes me smile because it shows five beetles. :D

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 33,156 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    Im glad I dont drink 😳

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    taint gud

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    1662 fathing bristal city issue

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    islemanguislemangu Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭✭

    The declaration argued that governments exist by and for the people with citizens obligated to overthrow a tyrannical government.

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    petroleum jug circa 1930s or 40s

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    edited August 13, 2026 11:56AM

    The Canadian shore defense at work

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    1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 5,469 ✭✭✭✭✭
                                                                                      A TALE OF TWO SHIPS
    

    Tote Ships arrive at the Port of Anchorage twice each week. Assisting them navigate in the Cook Inlet harbor are moored Tug Boats.

    In this below linked video playlist filmed this week watch as one of the tug boats returns to its mooring dock as the huge Tote RORO (roll on roll off) ship “North Star” departs with the dozens, if not hundreds, of trailers and vehicles that have been loaded for its journey to Tacoma, Washington.

    One should not underestimate the importance to Alaska's economy of the twice weekly Tote Ships that sail from Tacoma to Anchorage. 90% of the goods that come to Alaska arrive by Marine vessels and 50% of those goods are transported by the two Tote ships "Midnight Sun" and "North Star." (Only 5% of our goods arrive by truck over the highway and 5% by air.).
    FWIW, all of my vehicles arrived here in Alaska by having been transported on one of these two TOTE ships.
    Also of note, both of these ships, which constitute the entire fleet of based in Alaska Tote Marine Alaska, were converted to operate by clean burning LNG (liquified natural gas).

    The port turnaround time for these cargo carrying ships is the fastest in the industry at 8 hours. This is made possible by all of the cargo being loaded and unloaded by being driven on and off the ships rather than having containers loaded by cranes as is the case with most cargo ships. As opposed to container cargo ships, these are, as noted above, roll on, roll off cargo ships (RORO.)

    The ships have 13 ramps which help to facilitate the unloading and loading of the equivalent of 6 football fields of cargo carrying space on each of the Tote ships.

    FIRST, THE PHOTOS:

    SECOND, THE VIDEOS:

    The three videos in this below linked music video playlist capture views of the departing Huge RORO (RollOn Roll Off) Tote Cargo Ship "North Star"

    with added views of the Cook Inlet tugboat that guided it, an Alaska fishing boat sailing alongside it and an Alaska Railroad Train also departing Anchorage.

    Link to Video Playlist of the Departing "North Star:"

    https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLXAhyvErZNfM

    Another Ship(s) that plied these same waters in 1778:

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    Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.

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    edited August 14, 2026 7:26AM


    All EARS

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    i could get used of this

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    Pilgrim Clock and Gift Shop.. Expert clock repair since 1844

    Menomonee Falls Wisconsin USA

    http://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistr...dset.aspx?s=68269&ac=1">Musky 1861 Mint Set
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    edited August 14, 2026 5:28PM

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