This is a lonely picture, indeed. It's from some asian bbs - all pictures of trains, or train tracks, train stations, mostly looks like china, or Japan. Wonderous thing, this web, with such specialized little nooks and crannies to explore. I have always been fascinated by trains, especially old steam locomotives. Goes along with my love of the old west (American). We americans have a fundamental ambivalence about "the west" - It forms a large part of our cultural mythology of rugged individualism, and boundless adventure, but it was also an era of great violence, hatred and misery - an adventure that came at a great price. The frontier was effectively closed, when the last spike was driven on the transcontinental railway, in the 1870's. While there were still some very wild places out there, even into the early 20th century, we were well on our way to becoming the heavily industrialized, hyperdeveloped country we are now. We still treasure our myth of the wide open spaces, but they are dwindling fast. Still, you can get pretty lost in west, which I plan to do.