My user name here comes from the Occam's Razor theory, which essentially when boiled down is, the most logical cause for something is the factual cause. You see it used a lot in cryptozoology as a supporting argument. I first came across the term when writing a school paper some years ago about sasquatch (the class was a Pacific Northwest history course), and they used it in the sense of so many people see SOMETHING over such a wide range, that there must be SOMETHING there. I thought the theory (Occam's Razor, not sasquatch) made a lot of sense, so when it came time to register for a forum name here I thought why not?
Spidge=Southern Pacific in Dads Garage. I am the dad.
John
Otto Ray Sing wrote:Printer that brings back some memories. That same year I had a chopped 52 Harley. Unfortunately it was also the bike I learned to ride on. It had a hand shifter on the left side of the tank that I'm not sure whether it was original, or if it was somebody's idea of a sick joke. It ruined me for bikes, and after I sold it, I've never been on one. I do enjoy a well built bike, and yours looks sharp.
TA462 wrote: Brandon, post some pics of the 69.
Here you go!
Would you believe that they actually trust me, a 17 year-old, with this beauty? Yep!
Eriediamond wrote:Guess!!
How many guesses do we get?
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Claymore - My Family has its roots in Scotland and I am a big fan of Medieval weaponry.1977 - First Apple Computer, First Star Wars debut and I was born ;)
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
I got mine from my radio station disc jockey days....boy were they fun at time and the people i met..:)
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
There's no place like ~/ ;)
Well, "Arjay1969" comes from a username I've used forever, "Arjay", and my year of birth. As for where "arjay" comes from, it's my first and middle initials, made into a word.
As for the Laughing Hippie, well....
See, back in 1999, a bunch of my friends got together and chartered the caboose on the Cumbres and Toltec. One of them bought the cab ride, and was in the cab when the engineer spotted me climbing aboard with my long hair. The engineer immediately asked "Did you see that G-D-M-F'in HIPPIE climbing on the caboose???" Well, from that day forward, my nickname was "F'in Hippie", or just "Hippie". Of course, most forums won't allow me to use the TRUE form of the nickname, so "Laughing Hippie" it is.
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
Mine is the license plate on my streetrod. It's very low, in fact it's "in the weeds". Marty
My Dad and my Uncle both worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad years ago, my Uncle was a steam engine engineer during world war two, my dad came home from the Navy after WW2 and got a job as a brakeman.My Uncle ran a lot of K4's and Many of them pulled the trains my Dad worked on, and my first HO steam engines were K4's, thus the name "TheK4Kid".My avatar came from a picture I bought several years ago, of the legendary races between the Pennsy's "Broadway Limited" and the New York Central's "20th Century Limited" coming out of Inglewood Illinois, headed east on parallel tracks, headed for Indiana.
The picture is named "Steel, Steam and Thunder"Dad and my Uncle both said that the races betweeen these trains sometimes got above 100 miles per hour.On occasion they both came out of the Inglewood area about the same time of day, and both railraods were very competitive for good PR, and the "occasional races" were good for this.