PennSilverTaco's Aspergers (and general BS) thread!

This was solid ice a month ago!

 

The story behind the "Graffiti Highway" is that it was closed down and bypassed in about 1993 or so when the underground mine fire started causing the pavement to crack; I've heard that until just a few years ago, it was possible to bring cars and trucks onto the highway, and then in April or May 2020 people started flocking to Centralia because they saw it as the perfect social distancing activity. The powers that be did not like that, and they covered the highway with dirt to keep people from walking on it in the interest of "slowing the spread"; It gave them the perfect excuse, as I feel like they'd wanted to block access for years. The highway was covered with snow back in February, but it was all melted when I went back yesterday; As you will see in the picture below and the coming pictures, people still manage to bring dirtbikes and quads back here...

 

Nothing but mounds of dirt as far as the eye can see...

 

Get that diff locked up and I promise your truck will both surprise and impress you with where it can go

 

About the time I showed up at the highway, this group of young guys who'd also driven quite a distance also showed up; Unlike me, they didn't do their research before embarking on their trip, and were quite disappointed when I told them that the graffiti highway was covered in dirt. You can see some of them off in the distance in this picture...

 

It already has what I call a "fake posi"; It's got a brake-actuated automatic limited-slip differential that kicks in when the truck loses traction, and it emulates a locking rear diff when the traction control is deactivated...