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Owned by: Consolidated Disposal Service
Chassis: Peterbilt 320
Body: Maxon Legal One
Type of truck: Front Loader
Unit number: N/A
Additional notes: Ex Zakoff Services
Pic Credit: Shadofax96
Location of photo: Cypress, CA.
I've lived in a lot of places, and I became accustomed to flowering pear, apple, peach and other fruiting trees. But it was just last year that I saw on a daily basis huge (50 feet or more) flowering trees. The first thing that caught my eye when I was passing Bancroft Garden was a barrel cactus in bloom. I was on my way to the dentist, but I just had to get a shot of that flower, so for the first time in seven years, I used my phone for a camera.
On the way back from the dentist, I noticed six or seven huge (40 feet or more ;-) trees by the drive adjacent to the Garden. These, it turned out, were Tabebuias, one orange, one gold, one yellow and one pink. This called for a real camera so I continued my walk home, got my super duper SX50, and walked back ... every day for five days. It isn't easy to capture flowers 10-12 feet over your head with the sun at noon. That's when I became a subscriber and I continued trying to get the best out of the Tabebuias and later the Desert Willow with a 70 foot canope and, this year, the silk tree (having forgotten that there's one in the landscape at home).
Whatever time I spent on those trees, it was worth it. Breaking two cameras and my pride twice, maybe not.
You've already seen a Tabebuia: two weeks ago, I posted an Anna's Hummingbird literally entering the flower of a Tabebuia, aka, trumpet vine. flic.kr/p/2nVs4B1
Tabebuia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. The common name "roble" is sometimes found in English. Tabebuias have been called "trumpet trees", but this name is usually applied to other trees and has become a source of confusion and misidentification. (Not for me: I was already confused.)
Tabebuia consists almost entirely of trees, but a few are often large shrubs. A few species produce timber, but the genus is mostly known for those that are cultivated as flowering trees. Tabebuia is native to the American tropics and subtropics from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. It easily escapes cultivation because of its numerous, air-borne seeds. (Think dandelions.) There are 99 species of Tabeuia plus one hybrid. That's what it says, but the hybrid was not identified though when I saw one, I called it "Ralph."
I think I will post three Tabebuias in a row, something I don't normally do. The variety will be the color and you can just keep coming back here for the "backstory."
an experimental 3D design and render I did back in 2002, found the .c4d file yesterday and re-rendered it. rendered with Maxon Cinema4D R14s internal renderer, with a low resolution HDR as an environment map along with a volumetric spot light for the rays. Nothing very fancy, it was fun when I did it.
I had tried to dust this train on the adjacent gravel road, but it came slow enough that it mostly dissipated before it came into view. The almost set sun still gave some super glowy yellowy hueness to the scene. Don't worry about those birds on the rail, they'd fly up in my next frame...
The Sun Gods allowed one chance and only one chance as the short Saturday recrewed 11R crosses the Mohawk and approaches Maxon Road with the old Cornell Red colors of the past.
Not sure what the story is on this train, but it had to get recrewed just east of Albia. On the lineup, this coal empty had just two NS motors, the leader was showing as second in consist. When I found it, it not only had a different power arrangement, but also had three extra BNSF motors. I guess it just goes to show that even when you have a lineup, you can still get surprised!
A massive westbound Galesburg to Lincoln freight train is carrying a huge consist of power. Here the train drops down grade into Ottumwa west of Agency on the Ottumwa Sub. The train has a bunch of Dash 9s probably enroute for storage west of Lincoln? The train has 10 units and has 79 loads, 69 empties, 11,657 tons, and 8289 feet with BNSF's 5505, 7638, 7620, 4683, 4656, 4696, 4637, 4985, 5495, 4642. Unfortunately for us this guy would sit and wait for 3 eastbound to clear Ottumwa because the dispatcher was single tracking east of Maxon due to a combo coal train in 2 pieces around Avery. Bedtime on a school night made us head home before we would see him again.
This is a Penske truck that I rented recently. I made 3 videos of this truck... if you are interested they are here:
Interior:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6h39kAw10
Exterior:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me1EcVUQ6oc
Maxon Lift-gate:
Arcadia, CA
Here is the last picture Kevin sent me in his first set. Seen here is a broken down Newco Maxon FL. This was taken before Waste Management acquired Newco's routes.