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The New York City Department of Sanitation is the largest sanitation department in the world, with 7,201 uniformed sanitation workers and supervisors, 2,041 civilian workers, 2,230 general collection trucks, 275 specialized collection trucks, 450 street sweepers, 365 snowplows, 298 front end loaders, and 2,360 support vehicles.
The Pacific was the most common type of passenger locomotive on the Pennsylvania. K2 - 153 built at Altoona 1910-1911; K3s - 30 built by Baldwin in 1913.
New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) workers collecting garbage on 172nd Street in Manhattan in 1973. New York City's waste management system is a refuse removal system primarily run by the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY).
His Pennsylvania Railroad was in his day the largest railroad in the world, with 6,000 miles of track, and was famous for steady financial dividends, high quality construction, constantly improving equipment, technological advances (such as replacing wood fuel with coal), and innovation in management techniques for a large complex organization ...
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They also hoped that the new S1 steam locomotive would have a performance equal to their Pennsylvania Railroad class GG1 electric engine and would be capable of hauling a 1,000-ton passenger train at 100 mph. [4] A conference was held between Baldwin Locomotive Works officials and W. F. Kiesel, J. V. B. Duer and W. R. Elsey for PRR, where PRR ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) class I1s steam locomotives were the largest class of 2-10-0 "Decapods" in the United States. From 1916 to 1923, 598 locomotives were produced (123 at Altoona Works and 475 at Baldwin Locomotive Works). They were the dominant freight locomotive on the system until World War II and remained
The Baldwin DR-12-8-1500/2 (known informally as the Centipede) was the Baldwin Locomotive Works' first serious attempt at a production road diesel locomotive. The Baldwin type designation was ' DR-12-8-1500/2 , ' meaning D iesel R oad locomotive, with 12 axles ( 8 of which were driven), and two engines of 1,500 horsepower (1,100 kW) each.