Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: cars

Zermatt isn't the only city I've been to with a lot of electric vehicles, but it is the first I've been to where other motor vehicles are banned (with the exception of the fire department, who have Land Rovers). Most of the existing electric vehicles aren't private cars, though, but taxis like these. In overall terms, though, even these are unnecessary, as Zermatt is small enough to be walkable in its entirety, and has good rail connections to just about everywhere Switzerland.

Here are some older coaches again. These ones have 1890's-style closed platforms, depressed a bit from the rest of the carbodies, but in all likelihood these are of much more recent vintage.

These narrow-gauge tracks (in the foreground) appear a bit broader, so again I'd like to look them up. The freight cars on them are noticably bigger too, although the gondola in the background is standard gauge.

Here are some more narrow-gauge freight cars, again very-narrow-gauge, although again the exact gauge is now something that I know.

I'm not aware of what mine these mining carts were used in, but they're clearly narrow-gauge, possibly narrower than the other narrow-gauge exhibits at the museum. I wouldn't mind getting some information on the gauges of the display tracks at the museum, so I'm going to log onto the internet as soon as possible and find out.

I know even less about these passenger cars, although I'm assuming the red and cream ones are designed for use with Class M262 DMU's. The blue and cream passenger car is an MOW unit, almost certainly a camp car (notice the curtains).

I decided awhile ago to cut back on the idiot parking shots, but this was so good I couldn't resist. The car on the right is not only double-parked, but double-parked in heavy snow, and obviously immobile for a long time. The Audi in the foreground was only able to park because this is the last spot before the corner.

This shot was in some ways a lucky shot, since I like how it looks, in some ways not. Really what I wanted to do was get a shot of that black tanker over by the cantenary mast, as it had, I'm not making this up, GATX markings. Apparently, GATX expanded their operations to Europe some time ago, and I've seen a lot of their stuff rolling around.

And here's a shot of even worse vandalism, much like you would see in London, or maybe New York circa-1982-89. Now...is that stuff on the ground moss, weeds, or....

Here's a shot of the lovely Cerny Most Metro, at the Cerny Most end of the tubular bridge. In reality, it's not this awful inside the station, just outside. I can't tell what that stuff on the footpath is, but I'm sure you can guess.

Here's a better shot of the tubular bridge for the Metro at Cerny Most. This is one of a few such bridges on Line B. This one runs from Cerny Most to Rajska Zahrada, and the other one runs from Luziny to Hurka. This one is in better condition, although both are heavily vandalised.

In a place as filthy and disgusting as Cerny Most, grafitti, public defecation, litter, and miscellaneous vandalism are inevitable. It seems that these things go on most where people figure the place is so vile that nobody in law enforcement will notice, and come to think of it I've never seen a cop out here (don't count on them not showing up if you're really bad, though). No criminals or cops in this picture, though, just litter, grafitti, and panelaks. Surprisingly, nobody has chosen to take a dump on that roof.

In addition to being Metro connected, even more amazingly Cerny Most has some provisions for pedestrians and cyclists, although not nearly enough. The top of the tubular bridge is reserved for pedestrians, although I don't know if bikes are technically allowed on it. I saw some cyclists on it, though, and in any case the other facilities are so bad you won't see many pedestrians in Cerny Most except in the old Sidliste, so the safety hazard would be minimal.

Cerny Most is so spectacularly repulsive that I thought recently, on another bleak car trip out of Prague, that it is indeed a work of art in revulsion. Gaia Mesiah even have a song about it called "Black Bridge," which isn't any less apocalyptic than their other stuff. The song is called "Black Bridge" because that's literally what "Cerny Most" means. Lovely.... Anyway, it is what it looks like, a chaotic collection of strip malls, freeways, highways, litter, and feces shrouded in air pollution, a product first of Communism (it started as a Sidliste), and then of unrestricted capitalism, meaning American-style sprawl without any regard for the environmental and economic consequences. The only upside is that the building and tubular bridge you see on the left is a Metro station, the eastern terminus of Metro Line B.

I shot this while out Christmas shopping with my Dad. This repulsively ugly strip mall is only a few years old, but already it's so scarred the landscape in Central New York that it is one of the many things that make the place useless for most pretty photography. This sunset, however, was an exception. The darkness below helps to hide the ugliness.