No Title (El Tristan)

June 8, 2026

...and that's the eponymous "Palo Alto" itself, Spanish euphemism for both "big dick" and "tall stick" that Coastal Redwood tree was the prominent landmark of the De Anza Expedition, at Palo Alto Creek. It was only natural for the railroad to be surveyed using the exact same old tree as a marker, hence the bridge's proximity to it! The logo for Stanford University depicts this specific tree in silhouette btw

Big Boy came to my town, June 2026. Second time she's been here.

March 1943 Kodachrome by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information via shorpy.com.

Ben Hurst, in Peru writes “When you do a double-take because that big cloud in your peripheral was actually a 22,000-ft mountain.”

The "McTrain," as it is unofficially known, reportedly got its start in 1992, when the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway) agreed to try outsourcing catering on long-distance routes to McDonald's. The DB allowed McDonald's to refit two of its dining cars for the program, installing deep fryers, coffee machines, soda fountains, water heaters, and multiple walk-ins in a 269 square-foot kitchen—still reportedly more than half the car. After an apparent test period in Switzerland (though there is evidence of a parallel program in that country), the DB allowed the McTrain into service in Winter 1993, assigning it to the country-spanning Hamburg-Berchtesgarden line.

This is a broad genre which'd include the "Shenia Train" but also the American McDonald's location that's in some rail cars permanently attached to a structure

graffitied.

We get nowhere, it’s been proved - Michel de Broin

via english heritage

Subaru Sambar 4x4 1998. - source Bring a Trailer.

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...and now, with the rail mounted sights, you can buy the Sig or HK diopter and put it on ... everything!