Brian Trammell

@trammell.ch

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Yet another American-Swiss immigrant geek with a cargo bike. IETF (mostly L4), SRE (infrastructure), recovering academic and security person, frighteningly amateur electronic folk musician, unrepentant pedestrian supremacist.

a sunrise starts to burn through a layer of thick fog above the rooftops of an early 20th century Swiss railroad suburb.
A 2m Christmas tree wrapped and strapped sideways into a white front load cargo bike parked in a driveway
Sunrise over the track yard in front of Zurich HB, the spires of the old city and the right bank of the Limmat in the background
A train pulls into the Zurich Museumstrasse train station, next to a few other s-Bahn trainsets parked on a siding, with the track field before Zurich main station in the background.
A mountain bike with a water bottle enjoying the view of Lake Sils, Switzerland, a pine-covered mountain in the background and a large boulder on the water’s edge
an intercity train with a red locomotive pulls out of Zurich main station on a grey morning.
an Emirates A380, from below. Imagine the sound of a whole lot of air screaming OH SHIT as it tries to get out of the way.
a map of the Gulf of Mexico with nine red dashes delineating the territorial claim implied by the assertion that the Confederate States of America can rename it.
A conical black plastic kickstand foot (with characteristic 3d printed ridges on its surface) on a plywood table.
The skyline of Zürich-Nord with a foggy forest in the foreground at sunset, 19 January 2025
Frost on a window against a blue sky
a Nordmann Christmas tree wrapped up in the front bay of a white cargo bike
A fenced pasture, a stand of trees in the near distance, the Glarner Alps on the horizon near sundown.
a long pile of logs along a forest road, seen from above. The pile stretches out of frame on both sides.
a white longtail cargo bike parked on a paved forest road in front of a logpile
a white front-load cargo bike loaded with various beer brewing equipment pulled up in front of a 1930s house on a lightly cloudy spring day
a snow-covered platform 4 in Wallisellen, broken sunrise in the distance
a seagull in a cloudy sky over the Limmat and Limmatquai in Zürich
a stand of trees, leaves fallen, under a dark blue late fall sunset
fall colors over a creek (the glatt) with smallish rapids in the distance. Imagine the sound of an idling traffic jam overhead for the full aesthetic effect.
The Glatt River (creek, really) with kinda-fall-colors and morning fog, spanned by the ZVV S-Bahn bridge
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Sunrise over the platform at a commuter rail station in (European-)suburban Wallisellen, Switzerland