North American Toilets In Motion
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The toilet in a washroom on board an Airbus A330 (en route from London to Detroit). One of the toilets against the fuselage skin, not one of the only slightly more roomy center ones. |
Why do your ears sometimes feel pressure changes when you flush an airline toilet? Because the vacuum flushing may cause the pressure altitude within the tiny toilet cabin to quickly jump 5 to 20 meters, say from about 2000m pressure altitude to 2015m.
For other odd A330 photographs, see my Gallery of Crash Dump Screens. The seatback entertainment systems run an embedded version of the Linux operating system. The OS is fairly stable, but the application is not.
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In the 1970's the U.S. federal government nationalized most all passenger rail service in the United States, forming Amtrak. The resulting trains are nice inside, and along the East Coast they keep to useful schedules. These, however, are from The Cardinal, which links Chicago and Washington loosely approximating a three-times-weekly schedule. At least the stainless toilets are fairly nice!
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A toilet in one of Amtrak's high-speed Acela trains running between Boston and Washington DC. |
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A toilet on a MARC (Maryland Rail Commuter Service) train between Washington and Baltimore. |
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Yes, Greyhound buses have on-board toilets. They have a holding tank with the traditional blue juice. I was surprised to see that the design is just a straight drop down a wide shaft into the tank. I would think that the toilet could get awfully smelly on a long hot trip. There is a small air vent directly to the exterior just to the right of your head if you were sitting on the seat.
The toilet compartment occupies the right half of what would be a full-width rear bench seat and what would be the pair of seats just in front of that on the right side of the aisle.
Note to self — do not sit in the back two rows of a Greyhound bus, where the door to the toilet is directly across the aisle.
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The Staten Island Ferry provides free rides from the lower tip of Manhattan (New York, USA), past the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, to Staten Island, and back. And if you need to go before you board, this is an all-stainless-steel model in the Manhattan terminal. |
Also see the Stainless Steel Toilets page if you are interested in that category.
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
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