JANUARY 2026

The Atmospheric Road
A series of pages on the remains of atmospheric railways in Ireland, England, and France. What are atmospheric railways? Not just stage mist and subtle music cues. Look and see.

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All the Funiculars *
A series of pages on funicular railways in England and Wales, and some other cliff lifts and things.

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I replaced the insanely large PDF maps in Pittsburgh Southern with just plain large JPG maps, so that people can see them with ordinary computers.

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Nothing new this month. I have ideas for two new sets of pages and cannot decide what to do.

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I have completed the Pittsburgh material. I will now put this behind me and move on to other things. There are three insanely large PDF maps, a couple of other maps, and more words than anyone needs. Enjoy.

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I was in Pittsburgh for a few days last year and this year, and I became fascinated with the light rail system. I cannot explain these things. I just did. So I did some research and now I present parts of a work in progress that I like to call Pittsburgh Southern.

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New layout.

I made the Danbury Railways page five years ago, and then it got lost. How do these things happen? Anyway it is here at last. I'm calling it current because, as NBC said about re-runs of shows you didn't watch the first time, "it's new to you." Three large images and a torrent of words. I've never set foot in Danbury although I have driven through. It seemed like an interesting tangle of railway lines forced by geography to pass through one spot. That's all it takes for me. More like this is coming.

The Johnstown Incline page is showing itsage but I still like it. September. I was there two months ago and took some pictures and looked into its history. I hope you like it. The Pittsburgh inclines get more attention, because more cool people live there and visit there, but Johnstown needs a little love.

Beach Pneumatic has gone on vacation and reportedly is going for some kind of reconstructive surgery it didn't want to talk about. We'll see how that works out, in the fullness of time.

LINKS
NEW YORK: Forgotten NY (Kevin Walsh) | SEQUENTIAL ART CRIT: The Comics Curmudgeon | POLITICS: TPM (Talking Points Memo) | POLITICS: Daily Kos | SUBWAYS: NYCSubway (David Pirmann) | THE MUSIC BIZ: The Lefsetz Letter | TRANSIT: Human Transit

LINKS TO STRIPS
Wilde Life by Pascalle Lepas (Monday,Wednesday,Friday) | XKCD by Randall Munroe (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) | Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) | Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques (Monday to Friday) | Ra Ruu Rien by Ann Maulina (Monday, Thursday) | Johnny Wander by Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh (Tuesday, Thursday) | How to Be a Werewolf by Shawn Lenore | Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling (Thursday and Friday) | Cat and Girl by Dorothy Gambrell (Tuesday, Friday) | The Fusco Brothers by J. C. Duffy (every day)

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My pages from years ago are not 4.01 strict, but this page is.

Special note: this page is done without tables.