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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh! Social research survey for Lao diaspora in my targeted ads, interesting interesting. But I wonder who is behind… ah.

Screenshot of Lao Diaspora Engagement Survey explaining it is run on behalf of “the Asia Foundation”

Wikipedia screenshot explaining the Asia Foundation is a US Central Intelligence Agency front

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Main problem with the Harry Styles tram: it doesn’t go in One Direction

A Melbourne E Class tram wearing a promotional livery for musician Harry Styles

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

ドクターイエロー!!!!!!!!!

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Good morning to everyone except those who choose to keep shilling for M*rcedes-B*nz Gr*up Akt*engesellsch*ft

The Simpsons “don’t make me tap the sign meme” comprising two images composited together; the upper image shows an illustrated cartoon bus driver is shown with the subtitle “don’t make me tap the sign” and the second lower image shows his hand pointing to a white sign inside the bus. Text had been added by the poster saying “When writing about Melbourne tram classes, a hyphen should not be used. e.g. the correct form is “W Class” not “W-class.” This applies both to the compound adjective and proper noun forms and is per longstanding Gov house style; Wikipedia is wrong.”

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

UPDATE: they are back for another season!

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

eight decades of M&MTB annual reports can’t be wrong

The Bernie Sanders request meme with caption text overlaid at the bottom reading “I am once again asking” and then in a different smaller font added later “…gunzels, nerds, and others to stop incorrectly and unnecessarily adding a hyphen when referring to Melbourne tram classes per longstanding house style”

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

you may call it the meninges, but to me it will forever remain the

A banner sign suspended over an old pedestrian mall that reads “PALACE OF INTELLECT” framed by rainbow coloured neon tubes

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Victorian number plate enthusiasts may be keen to learn the VIC Hire Car ‘VH’ series issues are now into the VHDs; and have the tagline “COMMERCIAL PASSENGER VEHICLE” printed along the lower edge

A black Ford sedan rear side wearing new VHD series hire car number plates parked on a street in Victoria, Australia.

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Here to secure your business premises AND restore the House of Stuart to the British throne

A sticker in a pub window that says the business URL “Jacobyte” spelled B Y T E dot com dot A U, and the text “24 hour Video Surveillance”. In the 1600s and 1700s Jacobites were followers of an amalgamated political movement that sought to dissent from the British monarchy in several elements, which included restoring the House of Stuart to the British Throne

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

“And this one! ‘You’re a bunch of sad train-loving anoraks.’ Who could possibly be sending these?”

Enid Blyton’s book:
THE MYSTERY OF THE
SPITEFUL LETTERS
With cover art showing some children reading letters while standing behind a model train set featuring a British Railways High Speed Train

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

In 2025 my resolution is to carry myself with the energy of the giant inflatable illuminated Moo Deng atop Hua Lamphong Railway Station

Giant pink inflatable Moo Deng, world famous baby hippo/worst cat from Thailand, atop Hua Lamphong railway station in Bangkok (aka Krungthep)

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I have found one of the few Carl’s Jr.’s’ which is still open in Clayton South, Australia. An inflatable balloon on the roof advertises ‘Tradie’s Specials’ while 3RRR is piped through the sound system, Joshua Idehen’s “Mum Does The Washing” playing to the empty store interior. For my burger I wait.

A Carl’s Jr. burger restaurant in Australia

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Kyneton station has some new mascots: a family of Striated Pardalotes has nested in a crevice in the bluestone wall on Platform 1

A Striated Pardalote (with white eyebrows, a yellow spot in front of the eye, olive-grey backs and a white stripe in the wing, with a red coloured spot at the front end of this stripe, and the black crown absent the fine white stripes) clings onto a bluestone wall at the entrance of a cavity between the blocks where mortar has eroded, where its nest and chicks are located inside. It is located above a dented air vent at a railway station platform in Kyneton VIC.

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The collection also contains ample transport related flyers and even pages from other publications. This gem shows precursor artwork for the classic Melbourne bus “give way” icon (per Victorian Road Safety Road Rules Reg 77)

Closeup view of regulatory sticker on the back right rear of an orange M&MTB bus that shows a bus silhouette with the right indicator illuminated as a red dot. The bus icon is topped with a thick green arrow line showing its intended path in front of a car, the text “thank you” set in Windsor font, the silhouette of the car is waiting for the bus to merge in front of it

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Another quality find in this book haul: a 1976 comic called TRAM FURY; written and illustrated by Geoff Cook and published by Falcon Comic in 1976 😍

Comic book titled "Tram Fury", with the subtitle "when the slowest driver on eight wheels meets the fastest dragster of the age - there can only be one outcome ...." showing an illustration of two Melbourne W2 Class trams

An illustrated comic book page from “Tram Fury” showing a boy on the roof of a tram pulling the trolley pole off the overhead electrical wire

A page from Tram Fury comic book showing a traffic inspector being pushed forward with a speeding tram behind

A page from Tram Fury showing a W2 class tram illustrated flying between two columns of the front entrance to the Victorian State Parliament

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Included in the haul: the 1956 M&MTB Annual Report, covering Joyce Barry’s initial thwarted attempt at training to be Melbourne’s first woman tram driver

Page of the report including the following item:

“Female Drivers:
On 28th February, 1956, two selected
Conductresses were instructed to commence training for tramcar driving duties at Hanna Street and East Preston Depots.

The Trainer-Drivers concerned refused to train Conductresses and were suspended from duty.

On the same day Traffic employees at both Depots held stop work meetings to consider the training of Conductresses for driving duties.

Services from these Depots did not operate between 10.20 a.m. and 4.15 p.m.

Men continued to refuse to train women and on 5th March all Traffic employees attended a stop work meeting to decide the Association's attitude.

All services were suspended from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m. by this action.

The meeting decided to ask Conductresses to withdraw their applications for driving work.
The Board had on 1st March, informed the Arbitration Court of the dispute and Mr. Conciliation Commissioner Tonkin heard the Board and the Association on 6th and 9th March when the Association expressed fears that the appointment of women as Drivers would undermine working conditions.

Despite atiurances from the Commissioner and the Board, the Association’s attitude remained unchanged and the proposition has remained in abeyance.”

Cover of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board’s 1956 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

An old mate recently passed on several boxes of Australasian tramway and railway books, magazines, and DVDs donated to him. I was expecting to fill my recycling bin but let me tell you, it contains some absolute CLASSICS

A box of tramway magazines showing “Tramway Topics” on top

Tram VHS tapes in a box, including “California Electric Trilogy” about the Key System and Pacific Electric

A box of magazines with the visible top publications “Die-Modell-Eisenbahn” and Tramway Topics (NZ)

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

G’Day @garethdennis.bsky.social from me, The Grand Old Dame (Dome?) on Flinders Street, and the iconic Melbourne W8 Class tram (no hyphen)! My preorder has finally arrived just now, and I’m very keen to digest what might be the farthest distributed copy so far 🦘

A fresh and very warm copy of Gareth Dennis’ book “How The Railways Will Fix The Future” being held up in front of Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne Victoria on a sunny Australian summer day

A fresh and very warm copy of Gareth Dennis’ book “How The Railways Will Fix The Future” being held up in front of the world’s clearly superior steel-wheeled mode (tram), represented here by green and cream City Circle car W8.981 (with dash numbers in gold transfer set in the wrong font) outside Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne Victoria on a sunny Australian summer day.

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A special movement on the Bendigo line this morning! Back leading on the mainline for the first time in a few years, ex-PN bulldog S301 hauls a scratch transfer consist including T395 and recently decommissioned BZN256, both off to the Victorian Goldfields Railway at Castlemaine

Front 3/4 angle of Green and yellow bulldog S Class locomotive S301 leading a short transfer train at Kyneton

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The local pizza joint just *gets* me

A pizza box printed with a haphazard collection of black and white newspaper clippings comprising text and images, the most prominent being a beautiful front three quarter shot of my beloved Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board L Class tram 106, which is preserved in my beloved Melbourne Tram Museum

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

In a wild crossover, my favourite local award-winning pie shop (Kyneton’s Country Cob) have adopted Pennsylvania Railroad/N&W Position-Light Signal aspects to distinguish their range of flavours

A flyer listing pie flavours and their corresponding top pastry pattern, which is reminiscent of the unique railway colour light signals as used by several railroads in the northeastern United States

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

once again the shopping centre in Castlemaine VIC continuing to mildly threaten me on each visit

A glass window at a shopping centre, with a decal warning across it that reads “Caution Slope Watch your step.” (The second word is also considered an anti-Asian slur in Australia)

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

I know Bey is on her country trip right now, but for a late #tlcnewyear gift I want to introduce Milli’s latest… Trap/Luk Thung crossover – feat veteran Thai singer Arpaporn Nakornsawan AND the triple-turbo’ed sticky rice combine harvester of my dreams liftedasia.com/article/mill...

Thai Rapper Milli and folk singer Arpaporn Nakornsawan standing on a bedazzled sticky rice combine harvester decorated with ornate lights, dazzling decals and chrome fittings

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Adam Chandler @600vdc.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

“Taylor! Its Flexity, your cousin, Flexity SWIFT. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this!” *tram gong noises*

A Melbourne E Class tram at a stop with tracks in front and trees and buildings behind. This design is based on the Bombardier “Flexity Swift” tram product

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