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Brian Trammell

@trammell.ch

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Yet another American-Swiss immigrant geek with a cargo bike. IETF (mostly L4), SRE (infrastructure), recovering academic and security person, frighteningly amateur electronic folk musician, unrepentant pedestrian supremacist.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 03/02/2026

🚂🏙️ #commute

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 01/01/2026

hello, 2026!

a sunrise starts to burn through a layer of thick fog above the rooftops of an early 20th century Swiss railroad suburb.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 13/12/2025

merry Christmas to all, and to all a good bike! 🎄🚲🌆

A 2m Christmas tree wrapped and strapped sideways into a white front load cargo bike parked in a driveway

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 27/11/2025

#commute #trainsky 🚂

Sunrise over the track yard in front of Zurich HB, the spires of the old city and the right bank of the Limmat in the background

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 12/11/2025

#commute

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 11/11/2025

#commute

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 28/10/2025

#commute #trainsky

A train pulls into the Zurich Museumstrasse train station, next to a few other s-Bahn trainsets parked on a siding, with the track field before Zurich main station in the background.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 13/08/2025

… and the not uncommon consequence, Accidental Bicycle Advertisement

A mountain bike with a water bottle enjoying the view of Lake Sils, Switzerland, a pine-covered mountain in the background and a large boulder on the water’s edge

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 21/05/2025

spotted at Zürich HB. my other Porsche is a cargo bike I guess?

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 12/03/2025

#commute #trainsky

an intercity train with a red locomotive pulls out of Zurich main station on a grey morning.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 29/01/2025

big plane is big

an Emirates A380, from below. Imagine the sound of a whole lot of air screaming OH SHIT as it tries to get out of the way.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 28/01/2025

why rename it “gulf of america” when “south maga sea” was right there?

a map of the Gulf of Mexico with nine red dashes delineating the territorial claim implied by the assertion that the Confederate States of America can rename it.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 21/01/2025

okay that’s enough politics for one month, let’s talk about how this 3D-printed replacement cargo bike part looks like Odo’s bucket.

A conical black plastic kickstand foot (with characteristic 3d printed ridges on its surface) on a plywood table.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 19/01/2025

it’s good to touch green, even when it’s grey.

The skyline of Zürich-Nord with a foggy forest in the foreground at sunset, 19 January 2025

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 11/01/2025

#mood

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 13/12/2024

obligatory 🚲🌲

a Nordmann Christmas tree wrapped up in the front bay of a white cargo bike

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 29/11/2024

#commute

A fenced pasture, a stand of trees in the near distance, the Glarner Alps on the horizon near sundown.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 27/11/2024

long log pile is loooooooooong

a long pile of logs along a forest road, seen from above. The pile stretches out of frame on both sides.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 27/11/2024

#commute #longtail #cargobike

a white longtail cargo bike parked on a paved forest road in front of a logpile

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 23/11/2024

one of the nice things about the last move being under a kilometer is that the cargo bike was faster and easier for many loads. here comes the brew kettle…

a white front-load cargo bike loaded with various beer brewing equipment pulled up in front of a 1930s house on a lightly cloudy spring day

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 22/11/2024

#commute #sbb #zvv #swisstrains

a snow-covered platform 4 in Wallisellen, broken sunrise in the distance

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 20/11/2024

#commute walking through the city and crossing the Limmat for the first time in a while…

a seagull in a cloudy sky over the Limmat and Limmatquai in Zürich

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 16/11/2024

did a good job of using up the sunshine today…

a stand of trees, leaves fallen, under a dark blue late fall sunset

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 15/11/2024

#commute same creek, a little further upstream. was literally standing under a bridge carrying one of the valley’s worst stroads when I took this…

fall colors over a creek (the glatt) with smallish rapids in the distance. Imagine the sound of an idling traffic jam overhead for the full aesthetic effect.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 15/11/2024

#commute

The Glatt River (creek, really) with kinda-fall-colors and morning fog, spanned by the ZVV S-Bahn bridge

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 14/11/2024

#commute Yes, Switzerland is considering not ramming five billion francs worth of 1960’s asphalt through the middle of Basel and St. Gallen, by popular referendum. And the referendum (NEIN here) looks like it might make it. Like a lot of things in politics here, echoes of America 50ya.

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Brian Trammell @trammell.ch · 13/11/2024

Many (most?) of my old twitter posts were variably interesting pictures of the #commute — not commuting today (and the sun has left these lands for quite a while), so here’s a rerun.

Sunrise over the platform at a commuter rail station in (European-)suburban Wallisellen, Switzerland

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