I’ve uploaded another batch of photos to my fotopic.net site. This time, some Swiss Landscapes with no trains, including one of Tolkein’s inspiration for Rivendell. Also, as you might expect from me by now, another batch of train pictures, this time from Kandersteg.
Carnival of the Vanities #48 is at Outside the Beltway.
With apologies to The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Link from Michele)
Some of them are eerily appropriate….
Football fans
Circle I Limbo
Boy bands
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind
SUV drivers
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow
Neocons
Circle IV Rolling Weights
Everyone that served in John Major’s 1992-1997 administration
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled
River Styx
Rupert Murdoch and his minions
Circle VI Buried for Eternity
River Phlegyas
The Health and Safety Executive
Circle VII Burning Sands
Stalinist NME Journalists
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement
Spammers
Circle IX Frozen in Ice
Of course, if you’re really looking for Arthur Brown’s 1960s Hammond organ driven classic, this is what you want…
Andrew Ian Dodge explains why he doesn’t like sports. And his first commenter just proves his point.
More mountain main line working, on the BLS North Ramp and South Ramp, both from my Swiss trip in May this year.
Just like everybody else on the net, I’ve created a fotopic.net site. One reason I haven’t put many photographs up on this site is that kalyr.com is a bit tight on space, and I don’t want my blog to collapse due to running out of room.
So far, I’ve put a up a few recent UK Railway pictures, a few more Swiss ones, and a collection of attendees at Gypsycon.
A Virgin Trains express does a Mexican wave on rough trackwork at Rugeley Trent Valley in Staffordshire. I would not have liked to be a passenger on that train!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have heard about the huge power blackout across the eastern US and parts of Canada. Scott tells how it affected him, and how he achieved a lifetimes ambition.
If talk of Shoggoths, Deep Ones and Great Old Ones has you totally confused, Dodgeblogium explains everything you need to know about The Things Man Was Not Meant To Know.
I’m beginning to suspect the real reason some ‘libertarians’ appear to be in denial about global warming is that they actually want a major global rise in sea levels. Why? Because they’re in league with the Deep Ones, of course!
Some speculation on the fate of the London to Paris Eurostar services on Transport Blog. Much input from me in the comments section.
