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Harbor Freight Tools, commonly referred to as Harbor Freight, is an American privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California. It operates a chain of retail stores, as well as an e-commerce business. The company employs over 28,000 people in the United States, [5] and has over 1,500 locations in 48 states. [6] [7]
After lengthy discussions, a small railway museum was opened in 1918 in the service building of the Zurich freight yard on Hohlstrasse. As the interest for a national transport museum became apparent in the 1950s, the SBB participated in the foundation of the Swiss Museum of Transport , which was finally inaugurated in Lucerne in 1959.
On March 22, 2020, Eric Smidt directed Harbor Freight to donate its entire supply of N95 masks, Face shields, and 5/7 mil Nitrile gloves to hospitals with a 24-hour emergency room. In June 2022, Eric & Susan Smidt donated $5 million to the Holocaust Museum LA , which will allow the museum to double its campus in Pan Pacific Park .
Merger of Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn and Wohlen-Meisterschwanden-Bahn, 1,000 mm / 3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in gauge passenger traffic, 1,435 mm / 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in gauge for freight: Wohlen - Villmergen and Wohlen - Bremgarten West (dual gauge, still owned by SBB) BLS AG: BLS 2006 Merger of BLS Lötschbergbahn and Regionalverkehr Mittelland
In 2013, SBB Cargo had 7360 freight wagons in service (of which 6677 were low-noise vehicles). SBB Cargo purchased 50 Re 482 dual-voltage freight locomotives for its Switzerland-Germany services, 15 of which can also be operated in
The Forch railway (German: Forchbahn, FB) is a meter gauge railway in the canton of Zurich that operates from Zürich Stadelhofen FB to Esslingen as S18 service of the Zurich S-Bahn. It uses the Zurich tram tracks between Stadelhofen and Zürich Rehalp, while operating on its own tracks outside of the city of Zurich. It is owned and operated by ...
The first stage of the Rail 2000 project finished in 2005, included a new high-speed rail track between Bern and Olten with an operating speed of 200 km/h (125 mph).. The second stage of Rail 2000, still in project, includes line upgrades in the Valais canton (200 km/h (125 mph)) and between Biel and Solothurn (also 200 km/h (125 mph)).
Zurich Instruments Ltd. is a privately owned company (since 2021 owned by Rohde & Schwarz) developing and selling advanced test and measurement instruments [1] equipped with software for dynamic signal analysis. The company is based in Technopark, Zurich, Switzerland, and has international subsidiaries operating in Shanghai and Boston. Its ...