Per the M&M's/Army ad, I think the uniform on the right is supposed to be one that would fit one of the anthropomorphic M&M characters.

the critters in the last photo (around the Doritos bag) are giant isopods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

and the StarBucks one is a beach in India, not Pakistan.

If the ClearChannel sign under the Smart ForFour car ad is correct then it's: American Advertising and Marketing

The "bugs" around the doritos bag area kind of sea crab, actually called Moreton Bay Bugs, found in Coastal Aussie restaurants and upmarket fish and chip shops.....oh, and in the supermarket too at xmas.

M&M's were developed to give soldiers a way to have chocolate without it melting. That's where the old slogan came from. Bars were also inconvenient to carry. Away went the bar, in came "pan coated chocolates", M&M's.

Schizophrenia can be treated. Seek help! - Best of the bunch imo. That'd be awsome to see that in a restroom.

I love these scenes. These colors are more then beautiful!

The Vader money comoes from http://diablo2003.deviantart.com/art/Starbuck-67549133

your website is awesome.

76% at freakout :P

Woah, lolicon office equipment? That's really pushing it here.

good stuff.

whoohaa

On your Copper Canyon photo, when my family came down from Alaska in June of 1965, we drove from Anchorage to White Horse, Yukon then put our Volks camper on a flatbed railcar of the White Pass and Yukon Route railroad to Skagway, AK. It followed the GoldRush Trail of 1898 through the mountains and in place you could still see the steps worn into the rocks. The RR is running again but only to the Canada border from Skagway.

Your 1961 Ford Fairlane Hy-Rail is actually a Checker Marathon, of indeterminate age because they never bother to change the styling.

Back in the '70s I discovered that my '49 Ford pickup could ride the rails by slightly deflating the bias ply tires. Her creeper gear allowed us to leisurely cruise abandoned rail lines at 5 to 10 mph. The great thing was that it required only minimal attention from the driver.I only wish there was a system in place allowing us to similarly travel the highways. I would gladly give up some control of my vehicle in exchange for being able to pay attention to the scenery, or the newspaper, or my co-passengers.

Don't forget the "Rail Scooter"
http://thescooterscoop.blogspot.com/2006/07/wtf-scooter-of-month-4-wheeled-rail.html

or

http://thescooterscoop.blogspot.com/2007/01/return-of-rail-scooter.html

And the RailBike: http://www.toerismevlaanderen.nl/tvl/download/nl/2260653/hoofdimage/railbike.jpg

Sorry for the small pic, there are bigger ones available, but this exact pic is the only one around where I live.

Thank you, i added some more info.
Terrapin, you don't have a picture of this, by chance?

This is an old bus-train combination, used in Germany in the sixties:
http://www.mibaone.de/bahn/ssbus1.htm

To your "Truly a Light Rail Vehicle" i can say that the first and third are Simson Schwalbe KR51/1 (aka Simson Swallow) build in the German Demokratic Republic. The second is a Simson Star, also build in GDR.

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About that Volkswagen Bus: This is not some sort of "homegrown" conversion, they were produced in series equipped this way. The German railway company Deutsche Bundesbahn ordered some dozens of these (about 60 units, iirc). Some of them still roam around at several transportation museums or historic railways.

Don't forget de Back to the Future
Delorean Rail edition

http://www.jpustoys.it/JPS/images/delorean_rail.jpg

Where's polish car "Mitor" vel. "twin Żuk"?

one pic: http://www.ssb.strefa.pl/mitor/galeria/mitor02.jpg

more: http://www.ssb.strefa.pl/mitor/mitor.html

The german so-called "Schi-Stra-Bus", the red bus shown on the pictures courtesy of mibaone.de, was not only used between the towns of Siershahn and Montabaur. 15 of these were brought into use in 1953 and 1954. They were used on several routes, partly on rails and partly on roads, e. g. between Passau and Cham. However, most of the connections were cancelled by the late 50ies, early 60ies, since the conversion between road and rail was rather time-consuming (10-15 Min.) and improvements to the road-network made all-road connections more competitive. The last "Schi-Stra-Bus"-route, Betzdorf - Koblenz trough the Westerwald-mountains, lasted till 1967. One bus, the one shown above, is preserved.

More information (in German) on site linked to my name above.

nb the photo just after the "willys jeep 4x4" is ALSO a Willlys jeep 4x4. It's a "forward control" jeep.

The William Glover photo of the 1951 Chevrolet track inspection car is actually from the Eureka Springs & North Arkansas Railway in Arkansas, though it is pretty close to Missouri.

A spruce goose is an airplane, the D&RGW #2 pictured is the combination of a Pierce Arrow car body with a box car, and is known to the railroaders as a "Motor". This is evident by the 2 foot tall letters on the side that say "Motor"

To rail fans and the people of Colorado these marvels of necessity are called a "Galloping Goose"

rather nice ones, couple of slovak here as well :) http://vlaky.net/zeleznice/spravy/003153-Vyhra-zeleznica-Piestany-Vrbove-svoj-boj-o-prezitie.asp

After D-Day during WII, the US military used jeeps as locomotives, and I think I have seen the same use during the same period in Burma.

John Bessa

The second picture of the '55 Chevy Bel Air is very interesting, because the boxcars in the background have buffers. So the pictures is most likely taken somewhere in Europe.
That leaves the question, if the car was used by a european (state) railroad, or by the United State Army Transportation Corps?

Does anyone have information???

These last photos of a Russian Army "URAL" truck probably are the tests of "Unitsky's String Transportation system". Possibly it might use hi-voltage wires as a string/rail, but on the polygon these things are only tubes.
Here's the link to their site. http://www.unitsky.ru/ (translate yousing google translate, yeah).
Also I'm quite sure, that these photos with a truck were not taken in Siberia, because the only testing polygon was in Ozery (South east of Moscow district, not far from Kolomna). I visited it in 2009 with a friend of mine, it was ruined a bit... I think there is no studies of this system now... Also Dr.Yunitsky is not very popular in Russian Scientific Society... So I don't thing that someone in Russia would like to give money for this.
And a few tricks. Youngsters that we met in Ozery didn't know, where the Yunitsky Transportation System is. But they knew, where there is a "tower":)))
Bonus: video from this "tower":))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea9lk6p9CaA

Thank you Evgeny, great material, will include in the next part.

It's really tell about the very old mariage of religion with war. Always walked hand in hand for thousand of years.

And they are still walking hand in hand richard.

The Land Raider is from the "Warhammer 40000" Sci-Fi gaming system (or WH40K for short). "Warhammer" is a fantasy gaming system.

The theme song for this page should be "Onward Christian Soldiers".

Thanks for sharing :)