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There is a pair of Heil carts to the left and I was told that the 65 gallon is an OP* cart.
*Thanks to "OrangeCountyWasteVehicles"
Celebrating every song off Garbage's debut album with a picture for its 20th Anniversary.
Only Happy When It Rains was my introduction to the band. I remember watching the music video on MTV, and wondering what the fuck I had just witnessed. My sister hosed me down for this shot in the severe cold. She got a real kick out of it.
iPhone photo. I should have shut the lid lest any kid walked by, saw this, and died of sadness on the spot.
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Each large city in developing countries gather poor people struggling to survive, some find a little to earn scavenging the garbage dumps...
The interior of the waiting hall in Los Angeles Union Station, Los Angeles, CA (LAUS) in 2009. Union Station was built in the late 1930's (opened 1939...) for the UP, and was first named the "Los Angeles Union Pacific Terminal". (LAUPT) It also served the SP and the A.T.&S.F.: this station was the west end-of-the-line for the SF's Super Chief, the SP's Sunset Limited, and UP's City of Los Angeles; the south end-of-the-line for the SP's Daylight/Starlight, and the north end-of-the-line for the SF (and, later, Amtrak) San Diegan. LA Union Station has sometimes been called "The last great train station built in the US".
Taken by a Nikon D40x at ISO 1600 with an 18-55mm Nikon non-VR kit lens (at 18) ( ... and I would'a used a wider lens, if I had had one at the time! [even four years on, I only have a lens 1mm wider...] [I now {2014} have a much wider lens, a 20mm for full-frame, I'll be taking a similar picture from as close to where I was standing for this one with it and a full-frame camera, the next time I get to the station with time to kill...])
Station now (9/2013...) serves: Amtrak, (Coast Daylight, Sunset Limited, Southwest Chief, & Texas Eagle) Surfliner, (Amtrak crews...) Metrolink, LA Metro (3 lines) (rail); Amtrak California via a bus connection to Bakersfield; and several non-rail-connected bus services, including Greyhound.
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Having been built as an end-of-the-line terminal for all those runs, Union Station is a back in, pull out station (or pull in, back out...) - there are no run-thru heavy rail lines. (the one platform-level L.A. Metro line is a different matter: those [light] rails are newer [2008],. and do run thru... on the two subway Metro lines, L.A.U.S is also an end of the line terminal) This is now a problem with both some of the Surfliner runs and some of the Metrolink trains, where L.A.U.S. (as the name is abbreviated...) is a middle of the line station, NOT the end of the line. For these lines, which are always equipped with a "cab-car" (a passenger car with controls for the engine, used in a "push-pull" operation) the train engineer has to switch ends: the engine pulls into the station and pushes out, or vice-versa... Construction is now under way to remedy this "problem"... (2011, still underway 1/2013, first phase complete 6/2014)
Another problem with the station's configuration, especially for trains arriving from the south, is the north/south arrangement of the heavy rail tracks: trains arriving from the south have to make a rather tight U turn into the station. Trains arriving from the east also have to make this U-ey, as they join the tracks from the south about a football field length (100 yards, about 91 meters) short of the U turn. Complicating matters is that the station is only about ½ a mile from the Los Angeles River to the east and a major freeway (US 101) to the south, and that trains have either to work with the existing bridges over (river) or under (freeway) those obstructions, or build a new bridge or tunnel.
You see LAUS used as an abbreviation for the station all the time: you still occasionally see LAUPT used, too!
I got the last old style 20 gal Brute, and a decorative patio garbage can from my local Home Depot. The mismatched lid on the 20 gal can was intentional and the cashier didn't seem to give a shit lol.
Apparently, Shirley is only happy when it rains. This is an inside joke for all garbage fans because during this photo she was singing their hit, "Only Happy When it Rains." It was also storming outside which made the song even more apropos.
Aparentemente, Shirley sólo está contenta cuando llueve. Este es un chiste interno para los fanáticos de Garbage porque durante esta foto, ella cantaba su éxito, "Only Happy When it Rains." HabÃa una tormenta afuera, lo cual hizo que la canción sea aún más apropiada.
The council took on about eight of these Superior Pak / Iveco side loaders for the garbage collections. This one was still pretty new in the picture, only a matter of months old back then. They also have a number of MacDonald Johnstons being used for garbage - trying a different body builder as I was told.
The recycling bins are organized, the garbage bins are a mess!
(This shot is a little unfair -- there's a nicely organized stack of more garbage bins to the left, but it makes for a better story this way. :-)
Based on a rescue vehicle model built in the brick just this evening. I adapted the design into this using LDD, exported into Bricksmith, edited the model, and snapped this shot with LDView.
I have a few models I need to photograph, but haven't had much time to clean up the LEGO room. My apologies for being so inactive lately.