Reilly Hamilton

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Full-stack Engineer & Pub Quiz host based in Augsburg/Munich. On the hunt for good IPAs in 🇩🇪. PNW born and raised. RPI '12, lover of ice hockey, Mariners, sports car racing, trains/transit, and more. 🏳️‍🌈

A smiling Bastian Schweinsteiger, pointing to his McDonalds Limited Ädition cup, with his face kissing the 2014 trophy, and an action shot in a #7 German National Team jersey.
A small FM/DAB receiver tuned to "R. LEMANS", which is directly connected to a compact Bluetooth transmitter. In the background is a blurry view of Tertre Rouge at the Circuit de La Sarthe.
The No Kings stage at Odeonsplatz in Munich. The covered stage has a couple of No Kings flags hanging from it, and ample loud speakers for the speeches and musical performances. A couple of signs are visible in the crowd, including one reading "Resist Fascism". There are maybe 50-75 viewable in the shot, and another 150-200 behind the photo at the point, 12:00pm. A lot of passersby were looking on due to the prominent location in the touristy inner city area of Munich.
The subject, me, pictured enjoying an Austrian beer on a train. Out the window, we see vineyards and rolling hills in South Tyrol.
An aisle end-cap at a grocery store selling several different sizes of bowls and a cutting board, branded with a low-budget Clipart logo that says "American Football".
Antti Aalto from Finland jumps 198 meters.
Beer cups with handles that telescope into each other!
A wide view of the Ski Flying hill in Oberstdorf. 235 meters long!
The front of an Alstom LINT 54, painted in DB's Traffic Red. Blue skies dotted with clouds in the background -- just like the state of Bavaria's flag.
A sign welcoming visitors to Langenwang, in Bavarian dialect. Grias di, Schi dass do Bisch Welcome, we're glad to have you here
A DB Class 612 diesel multiple unit pulling out of Immenstadt train station. The train is painted in DB's standard bright red. On the left and in the background are the hills of the pre-Alp area. On the right, the covered platform with a nice analog clock hanging from the roof.
It's me, Reilly, a 34 year old American looking guy in front of Augsburg Main Station, which is lit with lights with a very green color temperature.
Pictured is a TGV Duplex operated under the TGV Inoui brand. The front car is a power car, without any seats. TGV/SNCF is one of the few operators that still use locomotive hauled trainsets instead of distributed traction EMUs.
A 0.5l beer glass, roughly 20% of which has been consumed. On the glass is the logo of Kraftpaule, a brewpub in Stuttgart. The logo features a sailor/weightlifter type in a wifebeater with a gigantic handlebar mustache. In his outstretched hand is, naturally, a beer. In the background, heavily blurred due to the photographer's use of portrait mode, is a set of 12 tap handles.
The front of a newer Stuttgarter Stadtbahn vehicle. Sadly I don't know much more about it, but it looks sleek and you can walk between the two cars. In the foreground, the meter gauge tracks intersect the standard gauge tracks at roughly a right angle.
The flat bike car at the front of the Zacke. There are various posts for securing your bike. One bike is already loaded; two more bicyclists are on the platform about to load.
The end of the rack railway, showing the red rectangular "end of track" sign. The mast for the catenary is directly behind the buffer.
The Zacke cog railway at its end station, Marienplatz. An elevator provides direct access to the Stadtbahn platforms below.
A view of two platforms/tracks at the Stuttgart Hbf Stop of the Stadtbahn. The left track had three rails, supporting both standard and narrow gauge vehicles. The right track also has three rails, but the middle rail for meter gauge starts/ends suddenly along the platform. Perhaps it's in the process of being removed.
The beautiful walk from the train platforms to the city + subterranean local transit connections is a giant construction site. No fewer than seven cranes dot the horizon.
The hallway between two cars of the Stadler KISS train showing bathrooms on either side: men's on the right, and women's on the left. The pictograms are clutching their crotch as if they have to pee really badly - tacky. In the background are the automated sliding doors to the next car.
A view from the railway bridge over the Danube between Neu-Ulm and Ulm. In the background and dominating the "skyline" of Ulm is the Ulmer Münster, the tallest church in the entire world.
A 0.5l red and white somewhat retro looking Stiegl beer can on the fold-out seat-back table. One can see the rolling hills of Bavarian Swabia out the train window in the background.
The exterior of a Stadler KISS 200, a double decker EMU. The paint scheme is a pleasant white and baby blue, with a thick black frame around the windshield. Anti-climbers and a Scharfenberg couple protrude from the front. On the right, mostly obscured by the WestBahn train is the side of a Bombardier Twindexx Vario (DB Class 445) painted in DB's signature "traffic red" color.
A plastic pint glass full with beer stands in the foreground. On the cup is the logo of Spezi, a mix of cola and orange soda unique to Germany. On the lip of the glass/cup is a small gingerbread man, with a relatively large gap between his legs allowing him to straddle the edge. In the background, one can slightly make out my husband Lukas and an NFL game on the TV.
Two pumpkins sit on a small outdoor table on an outdoor rooftop deck. A dusting of about 5 cm / 2 in of snow covers the pumpkins, table, and an assortment of plants. Snowy rooftops peek over the wall of the deck. The left pumpkin features the carving ",la", which when spoken outloud sounds like Kamala. The right pumpkin is a donkey, representing the Democratic party. It used to have a row of stats through its body (as often pictured), but that part has already rotted away.
A small railway buffer (600mm gauge) composed of four horizontal rails, painted red and white, stands before a 50cm high stone wall.
A dry erase white board with the text "Fastest Apple Review: 4 Hours, 6 minutes -2024.03.07". The text is in red pen with bad handwriting, and is enclosed by a lumpy rounded rectangle. Above this is a similar field with the text "Cups forgotten by [illegible]", and below that four tally marks.
A doubly articulated electric Trolley Bus. It is white with red and blue stripes and says "RBUS" along the top.
An SBB Bombardier TWINDEXX Express, in standard SBB white livery with red and black accents.
A deep red Deutsche Bahn Baureihe 215 Diesel locomotive, parked at Lindau-Reutin station.
An Alstom ETR.610 New Pendolino in SBB CFF FFS livery (white base, with a red nose and black window stripe) arriving at platform 4 in Buchloe.
An Alstom LINT 41 operated by the Bayerische Regiobahn parked at platform 12 at Augsburg Hauptbahnhof. The train is carrying a white and blue paint job - the colors of Bayern!