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The ticket counters, once located directly to the east of the compass room, were expanded outward into the waiting room. In the late 1940s a set of " electric stairs " and a new side entrance to the second floor railroad offices were built over the open stairwell to Jackson Street, narrowing them by half. [ 8 ]
Runway 13R at Palm Springs International Airport An MD-11 at one end of a runway. In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. [1]
Gotthard Base Tunnel: Alps: 1999: Completed: 2015: CHF 9.56 billion: At 57 km (35 mi), it became the world's longest and deepest rail tunnel upon its completion in 2015. [citation needed] Turkey: 1915 Çanakkale Bridge: Çanakkale: 2017: Completed: 2022: $2.7 billion: The bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world [citation needed ...
Clock detail. There is a 13-foot-wide (4.0 m) clock on top of the south facade. It was installed in 1914 by the Self Winding Clock Company.The clock face has decorative stained glass framed in bronze, with cast-iron clock hands, the latter weighing 340 lbs. [9] [10] The center of the clock features a circular panel with a sunburst design. [11]
Coaster previously utilized the aforementioned contactless "Compass Card", made possible by Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc. The "Compass Card" allowed passengers from MTS and NCTD to store regional transit passes and cash value on a rewritable RFID card. Customers would have purchased passes and added cash value on the Internet or at any ...
London Stansted is a base for a number of European low-cost carriers. This includes being the largest base for low-cost airline Ryanair , with over 150 destinations served by the airline. As of 2022 [update] , it is the fourth-busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow , Gatwick , and Manchester . [ 3 ]
The M2's base armor consists of an all-around 1 inch (25.4 mm) thick aluminum hull (mix of no. 5083 and no. 7039 alloys), heavily sloped in the front and mostly vertical on the sides and rear. The bottom of the hull front has an additional 0.375 inch (9.5 mm) thick steel applique plate, primarily intended to protect against mines.