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I had lunch at the Rogue Pub in North Plains. The food wasn’t stellar but it was a nice respite from the heat of the day.
This is such a cute little town!
After my stop in North Plains and a brief stopover at my parents house, I rode back to Corvallis to finish my RAMROD weekend. i ended up riding around 1000 miles across three days. It was great fun!
The old Vernonia Grade School is no more.
I think this might have been the middle school. It is being torn down now.
The high school used to be here.
In one of the city parks there is the old jail. It had two cots and could hold a couple people overnight.
The old Shay geared steam locomotive in the park. This was one of the last places in Oregon that logged using steam railways.
The gear-driven wheelsets are so neat!
The pistons that produced the power.
A spark arrestor to keep wildfires to a minimum in the forests.
An old steam engine that used to drive a water pump to fill the steam train tenders with water for their daily work.
