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Heres a photo I did for the fitness clothing line Refuse to Fail. It was a lot of fun and very rewarding to work with these models!
Strobist: AB1600 Octa camera right AB 800 thru BD camera left
Triggered by Scybersyncs
D329DKS was a Leyland Tiger TRCTL11/3RH / Alexander TE Type C49F new as Lowland Scottish number 329 in April 1987. It is shown later in life at Carlisle railway station after arriving on a 95 service.
For some unknown reason British Rail refused the use of their symbol.
Luckily we keep old sheets on the bed, as Skippy thinks human beds are ever so comfortable.
Also whilst he refuses to get off, if you walk away then he follows as he doesn't like to miss out!
Dunno, found the brush-like refuse interesting, stopped to photograph it. Stood out among the various wrappers and styrofoam coffee cups.
Spring is having trouble spring-ing as winter stubbornly refuses to release it's grip on the cold, windy hellscape that is the Humboldt Industrial Park. Situated on the top of a ridge Hazleton always seemed to have weather that simply wasn't happening along other parts of the R&N system. On a Saturday morning the HB1 is knocking some cars around and I'm still freezing my ass off nearly a month after arriving from Minnesota.
Today we'll take a look at the R&N around Hazleton. Through here the railroad has many personalities. Daily except Saturday the R&N runs 2 morning switch jobs (WHHB1/2) from their shack on White Birch Road in the Humboldt Industrial Park (on Saturday there is 1). The industrial park is owned by an economic development corporation called CAN DO and sold all of the rail assets in the park to R&N as of Jan 1 2016. NS had been switching the place and supposedly is still pretty pissed about it. The 2 miles or so of lead to get out of the industrial park and to the Hazleton Branch takes train to Oneida Junction which I'm pretty sure everything north of there is NS. From there southward R&N's Hazleton Branch consists of the former LV to Delano Junction (Lofty) then a mile or so of track built by Carbon County in the late 80's (the Lofty Connection) which brings trains on to the former Reading Catawissa Branch to Haucks where the mainline is reached.
The R&N also goes north from Oneida Junction and hangs a right just south of downtown Hazleton to continue east on NS's former LV and access their own Ebervale Running Track in order to wrap back around into the north side of Hazleton to serve the Jeddo Number 7 breaker. When R&N originally acquired this running track it was named the East Mahanoy and Hazleton and concurrently R&N acquired the Carbon county portion of the Carbon & Schuylkill. Moves out on the Ebervale Runner are now incredibly rare but somewhere along the way R&N got the rights to serve Atlantic Carbon's Hazleton Shaft along NS track about 3 miles east of downtown Hazleton (if anyone could explain this or give me the names of the NS tracks in the area it would be helpful). The R&N seems to go out to Hazleton Shaft 2 or 3 times a week running with an engine on each end of a cut of covered hoppers that will be loaded with anthracite. The power usually gets put back together from the return trip from Hazleton Shaft to Humboldt Industrial Park.
A B/W version of Greyfriers Bobby ...
In 1850 a gardener called John Gray, together with his wife Jess and son John, arrived in Edinburgh. Unable to find work as a gardener he avoided the workhouse by joining the Edinburgh Police Force as a night watchman.
To keep him company through the long winter nights John took on a partner, a diminutive Skye Terrier, his ‘watchdog’ called Bobby. Together John and Bobby became a familiar sight trudging through the old cobbled streets of Edinburgh. Through thick and thin, winter and summer, they were faithful friends.
The years on the streets appear to have taken their toll on John, as he was treated by the Police Surgeon for tuberculosis.
John eventually died of the disease on the 15th February 1858 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Bobby soon touched the hearts of the local residents when he refused to leave his master’s grave, even in the worst weather conditions.
The gardener and keeper of Greyfriars tried on many occasions to evict Bobby from the Kirkyard. In the end he gave up and provided a shelter for Bobby by placing sacking beneath two tablestones at the side of John Gray’s grave.
Bobby’s fame spread throughout Edinburgh. It is reported that almost on a daily basis the crowds would gather at the entrance of the Kirkyard waiting for the one o’clock gun that would signal the appearance of Bobby leaving the grave for his midday meal.
Bobby would follow William Dow, a local joiner and cabinet maker to the same Coffee House that he had frequented with his now dead master, where he was given a meal.
In 1867 a new bye-law was passed that required all dogs to be licensed in the city or they would be destroyed. Sir William Chambers (The Lord Provost of Edinburgh) decided to pay Bobby’s licence and presented him with a collar with a brass inscription “Greyfriars Bobby from the Lord Provost 1867 licensed”. This can be seen at the Museum of Edinburgh.
The kind folk of Edinburgh took good care of Bobby, but still he remained loyal to his master. For fourteen years the dead man’s faithful dog kept constant watch and guard over the grave until his own death in 1872.
Baroness Angelia Georgina Burdett-Coutts, President of the Ladies Committee of the RSPCA, was so deeply moved by his story that she asked the City Council for permission to erect a granite fountain with a statue of Bobby placed on top.
William Brody sculptured the statue from life, and it was unveiled without ceremony in November 1873, opposite Greyfriars Kirkyard. And it is with that, that Scotland’s Capital city will always remember its most famous and faithful dog
Bobby’s headstone reads “Greyfriars Bobby – died 14th January 1872 – aged 16 years – Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all”.
OMG This was the FUNNIEST thing I have seen in a long time!! I SWEAR!! He refused to use a fork or spoon to eat his cake .. he preferred to stick his head in the plate and eat it that way instead!!
I swear I took about 65 pics of this alone!!
The Great Lakes haven't been frozen over to this extent since 1994, and Lake Superior has set a new record -- 92 percent frozen over. More freezing expected the next 2 weeks.( H/t James Rhem.)
Looking to get rid of everything you see pictured. Email me at
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A photo of a Leyland refuse truck with the T45 type cab. This photo was taken in the scrap yard in May2013
From a 1950 publication on British Commercial Vehicles some examples of those often ignored but very necessary vehicles that help keep our villages, towns and cities clean.
A second page of municipal and commercial refuse collection lorries here again on a variety of chassis and with varying bodywork. The old Rural District Council of Henley is here with a Dennis Motors side-loading cart, Dennis being a manufacturer of various such specialist vehicles and one that has survived to this day.
The Metropolitan Brorough of Stepney in London makes an appearance with an early 'compressing' type lorry built by Lewis-Ochsner on an Austin Commercial chassis. The other three are a Scammell Lorries Scarab three-wheeler, showing a slightly different use for the 'mechanical horses' to the ones normally seen for the railways, a Mercury 'miniature' collector and a Leyland Motors Comet chassi fitted out for the Indian Bombay Municipality's Health Department.
Temelec (Sonoma County), CA
3/20/17
For those that don’t know, the Curotto family owns Sonoma Garbage Collectors and they made The Curotto Can for their own front loaders and eventually sold Curotto Cans to Waste Haulers throughout North America.
After many years of wanting to see Sonoma Garbage Collectors fleet in person, I finally had an opportunity to spend a day in Sonoma and I took advantage of it. I arrived in San Francisco early in the morning, grabbed a rental car and drove immediately towards Sonoma. I knew Sonoma Garbage Collectors also operates in Temelec which is before Sonoma, so I stopped there first and before I could turn left into Temelec I saw a Sonoma Garbage Collectors Autocar Wittke with of course a Curotto Can. I met Raul driving the Diesel Autocar Wittke Curotto Can, Raul is a great driver and operates the Curotto Can like a professional. The Wittke sounded absolutely amazing and still operated great for being over 10 years old. There were several 32 gallon carts in Temelec and the Curotto Can would often go 4 blocks without being emptied into the hopper.
I found a brand new yellow Curotto Can on the side of the road in Temelec. It looked great and it had all the new features that the Dedicated Curotto Can has. The new yellow Curotto Can belongs to Sonoma Garbage Collectors new Autocar Heil Freedom which finished before 10am (they start around 4:00-5:00am) because it needed some maintenance. Later on, I went to their yard and saw their 1998 commercial Bridgeport Front Loader parked out front. Eventually I found Raul returning to the yard in the Wittke. The route manager Matt also arrived to the yard around the same time in the low entry Bridgeport. Matt just finished a commercial CRV Glass recycle route and he was kind enough to start up the Bridgeport and gave me a tour of the yard.
A huge Thank you to the Wittke driver Raul, who is an efficient and nice driver. The route manager Matt, for operating the Bridgeport and giving me a yard tour. And thank you John Curotto for running such a great fleet and producing great innovations for the waste industry. I have been a huge Curotto Can fan since I first saw one on my street in 2001 and although I enjoy all refuse trucks, Front Loaders with Curotto Cans are my favorite.
Please make sure you watch the entire video so can see the new Sonoma Curotto Can detached from the new Heil. Along with a commercial and residential (with a custom Curotto Can) Bridgeport and the Curotto Can bone yard. Also check out my pictures on Flickr. The pictures include: the new Heil, older Curotto Cans in the boneyard including the Scalin Eagle, a cart from H&C Disposal from Los Angeles and a Curotto Can getting worked on outside the shop.
All credit to Newport City; as well as an all electric bus fleet, they have all electric refuse lorries.
"Allyriadus Sero" is "Zero Emissions".
Keeping myself busy during lockdown 2.0, I’m once again looking through some old prints and have scanned a few via my iPhone. I haven’t worked on them too much to try to keep the rawness of print films. Enjoy 😉
I visited Reddish MPD a couple of times in early 1982 to try to clear my class 76’s, several of which were long withdrawn grounded bodies.
However Reddish was still an operating depot with an operational wheel lathe so there were always some mainline locos on site being serviced. It was also a very welcoming depot in that I don’t recall being refused when I asked permission.
On 6th February 1982, 40117 & 065 were photographed sat outside in the depot yard when I visited.
Sadly both locos were withdrawn. 117 had been withdrawn on 07/09/1981 at Longsight Depot as she was overdue for Classified repair. She remained there until 18/09/81 when she was moved to Reddish Depot.
Sister engine 065 had been withdrawn at Reddish Depot on 08/11/1981 and had been here since then.
2 days after this photo was taken (8th Feb) 40117 was moved to Longsight Depot where on the 22nd she was towed to Swindon Works. She was finally cut up there on 17/11/1983.
40065 remained at Reddish until she was moved to Crewe Works on 31st July 1982. By 1st March 1985 she was no more 😔
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