“So we all go,” She tells herself. “Even the richest and most powerful are only meat for cheshires in the end. We are all nothing but walking corpses and to forget this is folly. Meditate in the nature of corpses and you will see this.”
Emiko, Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi
Model Railroad Forums has made several more pages of their members Shacks,Sheds, and Shanties. Most of them seem to be created using wood and quite a few of seem to be scratch built.
“Technological Note:
Potassium nitrate is prepared on Riverworld by feeding a certain type of earthworm human excrement. The end product of this diet is crystallized potassium nitrate, which, when mixed with charcoal and sulfur, makes black gunpowder.”
This short clip features a very awesome Steampunk themed model train layout. I especially liked the cargo that its flat cars are carrying.
The Fabulous Riverboat, Philip Jose Farmer
