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This, in turn, controls the flow rate of the gas and the size of the flame at the burner, and thus the amount of light it produces. This type of lamp generally has a reflector behind the flame to help project the light forward. An acetylene gas powered lamp produces a bright, broad light.
This branch (known as the Lick Branch) once served the quicksilver mining area of New Almaden, located south of San Jose. In later years, it ended at the current site of the Almaden Light Rail Station and served a lumber yard. The freight railroad was abandoned in 1981. A light rail car laying over at the outer end of the line in 1993
It consists of a white material (linen) and served in the Middle Ages to protect the miner when descending below ground (unter Tage). Later it was replaced by the miner's hat (Fahrhut or Schachthut), from which the leather cap or helmet were developed and subsequently today's mining helmets.
Pre-2009 map of the TriMet MAX Light Rail system in the Portland metropolitan area. Unlike the official map, this one is geographically correct (At normal size, 1 pixel=100 feet). Made using official TriMet data that's been made publicly available for Google Transit and others.
The following is a list of all light rail systems in North America, ranked by ridership. Daily figures for American and Canadian light rail systems are "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated.
The MAX Red Line is a light rail line serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.Operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system, it is an airport rail link connecting Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland City Center, and Northeast Portland to Portland International Airport.
A section of the light rail tracks next to the Banfield Freeway A MAX train next to the Sunset Highway, east of Sunset Transit Center The Blue Line operates along the Eastside and Westside MAX segments, which combined total 32.6 miles (52.5 km) [ 50 ] [ 155 ] [ a ] to 32.7 miles (52.6 km).
Built in 1991–1992, the miners' row, or "raw" shows typical workers' homes from the 1880s to the 1980s. In the row there is also a sweet shop selling old fashioned sweets and some of modern houses have gardens such as the 1940s house which has a wartime "dig for victory" garden with Anderson shelter. The row is used frequently as a location ...