No Title (El Tristan)

"Nope, I STILL don't have time to read the *whole internet * every day" — "Just checking to see if the internet is still there" — "Do you think that someday the internet might run out of porn?" — "oooh!!! gifs of kittens on roombas!!!" — "[CENSORED] is an inalienable human right" — tristanmorrow.com

[a-rail-fan]

WMR Class 172 at Birmingham New Street

[captain-price-returns]

Sgt. Norwood Dorman of Benson, N.C., 36th Field Artillery Regiment, stops to rest at an Italian WWI memorial. Brolo, Sicily, Italy. 14 August, 1943.

[eltristan]

Damn, surprised his name wasn't Willie or Joe — Mauldin would've sketched his dogfaced mug

[zponds]

[eltristan]

We used to have high speed rail in America, 100 years ago now... (WTF has happened between now and then???!!!)

👉The NYC Niagras here look like screenshots from a film, but which one? (AI wasn't even helpful for me to identify it this time 🧐)

[merpmonde]

The Lindau-Insel rail embankment

Lindau's historical centre is on an island, which requires some kind of structure if trains are going to reach it - which they do. Given the relatively placid nature of the Bodensee, an embankment would suffice, so, since the opening of the Bavarian line from Munich in the 1854, that's what's been in place.

The Austrian Vorarlberg line was extended to Lindau in 1872, and the two lines meet at a junction at the North end of the embankment. Being the shore of the lake, a road naturally runs across, and this means we have a four-track-wide level crossing. But it's more complex than that: the crossing is also a crossroads, with a street arriving smack in the middle of the railway junction (on the left in the picture below). For this reason, the crossing requires human supervision, from the hut in the picture above, and is the first example of a manually operated crossing that I can remember seeing.

When the signal is given to the attendants, they start by ringing the warning bells slowly, before picking up speed and the barriers coming down once the crossing is clear. Another clue for a lack of automation is simply how far ahead the barriers come down. While it's no Higashi-Yodogawa (link to a video showing the crossing closed for up to 40 minutes at a time, though this crossing was re-designed in 2019 and is no longer the bottleneck it once was), it's still signposted that you might be better off using an alternate route!

Shorter barrier closing times to Lindau-Insel left. Waiting times of up to 15 minutes here!

The Insel embankment junction is one corner of the Lindau triangle, linking Insel, Reutin and Aeschach stations. Express trains like the EuroCity Express between Munich and Zürich skip Insel, while other regional trains start and Reutin, turn around and Insel and continue through Aeschach towards Kempten. Trains from Friedrichshafen in Germany, Bludenz in Austria or Romanshorn in Switzerland, will typically terminate at Insel, meaning that one can spot trains from three countries on the embankment!

[milksockets]

'(effective ironing) campaign for rowenta flatirons' in lürzer's int'l archive (ads, tv + posters worldwide) vol. 1 - 2009

[eltristan]

planchar la ropa mapa

[eltristan]

H-Line Shipping's new cryogenic LNG tanker, the M/V PUTERI JOHOR

...anyway, this big 🔋 LNG tanker is kind of a big deal, and it's also worth noting that the cryogenic LNG is far and away, by orders of magnitude, much more energy dense than even LiPo batteries.

[the-w0nder-beards]

Sonoma Coast

California

[stickgunner]

[thelaurelhighlander]

[memories-of-ancients]

Axe head, Scandinavia, 11th-12th century

from The MET

[likegram]

This is Carly, my little van by @oscarwastaken

[desert-ducati-girl]

This exact image was captured by photographer Alec Basanec.

He took this photo during a road trip to San Francisco and the surrounding coastline, featuring the iconic winding roads of Mount Tamalpais (specifically near Trojan Point) above the Bay Area's famous low fog.

This scenic winding road is located on Mount Tamalpais (often called Mt. Tam) in Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco.The specific spot shown is known for its dramatic "low fog" or "rolling fog" phenomenon, where a thick marine layer blankets the valleys while the peak remains clear, especially during summer sunsets. This particular curve with its lone tree is a highly popular destination for photographers.

[guncodez]

https://linktr.ee/guncodez

[eltristan]

FWIW new miilitary 🇹🇷 MKE MP5SD / T94SD are ~€1500 so, if you could buy one, ask yourself, is this USD$5000 "arm-brace loophole special" better or worse?

[maureen2musings]

The Sierra Foothills, California

codymayer22

[hrs5758d]

[eltristan]

Underwater exploration by train? Nagaragawa Railway company in Gifu Prefecture, Japan — I think honoring the natural history of the eponymous Nagaragawa River.

[sonimage1965]

Edward Hopper

Study for Nighthawks

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

The Crazy Sports I British Pathé

[eltristan]

Checking if #monowheel is still a thing? #EUC ???