You'll Never Ride It V: The Elusive Bank-to-Steam-Engine.

via Just a Car Guy

Railway snow plows. I had no idea. But of course.

Here are a couple dozen photos from various corners of the internet. Riding-wise, the outdoor museum pieces could probably be located and sessioned with minimal detective work and a cheater-board (Ten bucks paypalled to anyone with photo or video documentation), though that's not really so important.

Just some amazing images to contemplate.

Happy New Year. Click to go big.

via Scenes and Things

via The Railway Snowplow

via Sciencepunk

via rogerdodger's panoramio

via Pirate Johnny's Flickr

via My New England Life

via lewiston-ut.org

via tnrdfilm.com

via bohemianj16's Flickr

via Laramie Historic Railroad Depot

via MichelleDormer's Photobucket

via Atchison Rail Museum

via PaulSid's Flickr

via Marsh49's Panoramio

double-edged!

via Northeast Railfan

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Post-script: some worthy Youtube:


Get Jason Levy on it.

Sounds vs Soundtrack, Revisited.

"A video with no music whatsoever"? Hat tip to InTheGnar for Brandon Westgate's music-less part from the Zoo York video State of Mind:



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Except it's not his video part at all, just the leftover clips. Hence the title "Extras." But thanks to my ignorance, that's how I watched it, foolishly thinking that the editor consciously, intentionally crafted this strangely epic thing, and I hope I kind of tricked you into watching it the same way, and I hope you enjoyed it as thoroughly as I did.

I mean, isn't it absolutely riveting?

For comparison, here's the actual video in its entirety. Westgate's part starts at 1:30. It's quite good, I guess, but seriously: I find the hushed patter of urethane wheels on brick infinitely more foreboding than the squonky cliched guitar riffs of Magic Man.

New Piff Blogs Worth a Click.

Blogball: Ben is slowly documenting all the vintage Toyotas he has owned over the past few years. I believe he is now driving Corolla number seven.

And on a related topic: Old Parked Cars, my new photoblog, with contributions from Ben and Dad.