Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southern Cross is the name of the Fokker F.VIIb/3m trimotor monoplane which in 1928 was flown by Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew in the first ever trans-Pacific flight, from the mainland United States to Australia, about 7,250 miles. The Southern Cross began life as the Detroiter, a polar exploration aircraft of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic expedition. The aircraft had crashed in Alaska in 1926, and was recovered and repaired by the Australian expedition leader, George Hubert Wilkins. Wilkins, who had decided the Fokker was too large for his Arctic explorations, met with Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm in San Francisco and arranged to sell them the aircraft,...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-5525-5
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. South 9th Street/Theater District is a light rail station on the Link's Tacoma Link in Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A.. The station officially opened for service on August 22, 2003, and is located at the southern end of downtown and is named for the several nearby performing art centers. Downtown businesses also extend through this corridor. Tacoma Link is a 1.6-mile (2.6 km) light rail line located in Tacoma, Washington. The line was completed in 2003 and serves the downtown area, and primarily functions to transport commuters between a combined parking garage/transit hub and the downtown core. The service is free...
ISBN: 978-6-1347-9684-2
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The South East Central Railway is one of the sixteen railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Bilaspur and comprises Nagpur division, reorganized Bilaspur division of South Eastern Railway and new Raipur division. This zone was the part of South Eastern Railway. This zone was inaugurated on 20 September 1998 and dedicated to nation on 5 April 2003. The South Eastern Railway (SER) is one of the sixteen railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Garden Reach, Kolkata.
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1985 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 45 Class 11E locomotives in service. The South African Class 11E 25kV AC electric locomotive was designed by General Motors (GM) and built in South Africa by General Motors South Africa (GMSA), whose corporate name was changed to Delta Motor Corporation two thirds through the building program. In the steam era South African steam locomotives bore unlettered numbers, while electric locomotives bore numbers with an “E” prefix and diesel-electric locomotives numbers with a “D” prefix. Narrow gauge...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0764-7
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. South African Airways Flight 201, a de Havilland Comet 1, took off at 18:32 UTC from Ciampino Airport in Rome, Italy en route to Cairo, Egypt, on the second stage of its flight from London to Johannesburg, South Africa. The flight crashed, killing all aboard at around 19:07 UTC on 8 April 1954. The flight was operated as a charter by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) using the aircraft G-ALYY ("Yoke Yoke"), with a South African crew of seven, and carrying 14 passengers. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0601-5
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 1888 the Natal Government Railways (NGR) placed the first five of its eventual 100 Class A 4-8-2T tank steam locomotives in service. The last of the 100 was delivered to the NGR in 1899, and another two were built from spare parts by the South African Railways (SAR) in 1915. The NGR Class A 4-8-2T tank locomotive was designed by W. Milne, the locomotive superintendent of the NGR from 1877 to 1896, and built by Dubs and Company. 100 of these locomotives, numbered 49 to 148 and known as the “Dubs A”, were delivered in ten batches by Dubs Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-1954-1
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Southern Pacific Transportation Company (reporting mark SP), earlier Southern Pacific Railroad (1865-1885) and Southern Pacific Company (1885-1969), and usually simply called the Southern Pacific, was an American railroad. The railroad was founded as a land holding company in 1865, later acquiring the Central Pacific Railroad by lease. By 1900, the Southern Pacific Company had grown into a major railroad system which incorporated many smaller companies, such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad, and which extended from New Orleans through Texas to El Paso,...
ISBN: 978-6-1303-5241-7
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1917 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed ten Class 16B 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives in passenger train service. The South African Class 16B 4-6-2 locomotive was designed by D.A. Hendrie, chief mechanical engineer of the SAR at the time, and built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland. They were identical to predecessors Class 16 and successors Class 16C in most respects, except that they had wider cabs than the Class 16 while the Class 16C had a combustion chamber fitted to the boiler. Данное издание не...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0964-1
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1963 and 1964 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 130 Class 5E1, Series 2 locomotives in service. Series 2 of the Metropolitan-Vickers South African Class 5E1 3kV DC electric locomotive was built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel. UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to the locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to allocate builder's numbers or works numbers to record the locomotives built by them, UCW simply used the SAR road numbers for their record...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-1596-3
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between September and December 1973 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed twenty Class 91-000 diesel-electric locomotives in service on its 610 mm (2 ft) narrow gauge lines, the Langkloof apple line between Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape and Avontuur, Western Cape and the Alfred County line from Port Shepstone to Harding, Kwa-Zulu Natal. The South African Class 91-000 type GE UM6B diesel-electric locomotive was designed and built by General Electric in Erie, Pennsylvania, and imported. It was designed for 2 ft (610 mm) gauge (Cape narrow gauge) and is...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-1910-7
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1914 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed twelve Class 16 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives in passenger train service. The South African Class 16 4-6-2 locomotive was designed by D.A. Hendrie, chief mechanical engineer of the SAR at the time, and built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland. The design of the Class 16 closely followed that of the Class 15 4-8-2 that was introduced at the same time from the same builder, and many parts were made interchangeable. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0953-5
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1990 Spoornet, formerly the South African Railways (SAR) and later renamed Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed three prototype Class 14E, Series 1 locomotives in service. They were the first dual voltage 3kV DC and 25kV AC locomotives to see service on South African rails. They were followed in 1994 by ten locally manufactured Class 14E, Series 2 locomotives. The South African Class 14E Series 1 3kV DC/25kV AC electric locomotive was designed by the 50 c/s Group (ACEC, AEG, Alsthom, Brown Boveri and Siemens) and built by Swiss Locomotive Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0820-0
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In 1902, towards the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War, the Imperial Military Railway placed 35 4-10-2T tank locomotives in service, built to the specifications of the Natal Government Railways “Reid tenwheeler”. At the end of the war, these locomotives were transferred to the Central South African Railways as CSAR Class E 4-10-2T. The CSAR converted six of them to 4-8-2T tank engines by removing the fifth set of coupled wheels and these became the Class H1 in 1912 with the creation of the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR). Данное издание...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-2067-7
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. South Arkansas Regional Airport at Goodwin Field (IATA: ELD, ICAO: KELD, FAA LID: ELD) is a public airport located eight miles (13 km) west of the central business district of El Dorado, a city in Union County, Arkansas, United States. It is mostly used for general aviation, but is also served by one commercial airline. Service is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program. As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 2,182 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 1,954 enplanements in 2006. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-4998-2
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SouthSide Works is an open-air retail, office, entertainment, and residential complex (often referred to as a lifestyle center) located on the South Side of the city of Pittsburgh and just across the Monongahela River from the Pittsburgh Technology Center and the University of Pittsburgh. The $300 million complex opened in stages between 2002 and 2004 and offers more than 34 acres (140,000 m2) of shops, offices, hotels and apartments, and has a new urbanist design. The retail alone will have over 300,000 square feet (30,000 m2) of space. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-5595-8
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. South Acton is a station on the MBTA Fitchburg Line in Acton, Massachusetts. The station is owned by the Town of Acton and is located at 10 Central Street near Massachusetts Route 27. It is the busiest station on the Fitchburg line, accounting for roughly 873 weekday passenger boardings, generating 15% of the line's traffic. The station is 25.06 miles (40.3 km) away from North Station. While most trains on the Fitchburg Line run to Fitchburg, some trains terminate at South Acton instead, and the line is sometimes referred to as the Fitchburg/South Acton Line by MBTA. The station is located in Zone 6....
ISBN: 978-6-1347-9748-1
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between December 1974 and July 1976 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 100 Class 34-600 diesel-electric locomotives in service. The South African Class 34-600 type GT26MC diesel-electric locomotive was designed by Electro-Motive Diesel and built by General Motors South Africa (GMSA) in Port Elizabeth. In the steam era South African steam locomotives bore unlettered numbers, while electric locomotives bore numbers with an “E” prefix and diesel-electric locomotives numbers with a “D” prefix. Narrow gauge locomotives and most narrow gauge...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-1378-5
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! South Caucasus Pipeline (also: Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum Pipeline, BTE pipeline or Shah-Deniz Pipeline) is a natural gas pipeline to transport natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea to Turkey. It runs parallel to the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline.On 21 May 2006, the commissioning gas was pumped to the pipeline from the Sangachal Terminal. First deliveries through the pipeline commenced on 30 September 2006. Deliveries of gas from Shah Deniz gas field started on 15 December 2006. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1333-9695-1
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1983 and 1984 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 60 Class 7E3, Series 1 locomotives in service. This was followed by another 25 Class 7E3, Series 2 locomotives between 1984 and 1985. Most of these were dual cab locomotives and were later reclassified to Class 7E6, while the single cab units (at least one observed) were reclassified to Class 7E4. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-1897-1
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1974 and 1975 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 100 Class 6E1, Series 5 locomotives in service. During the late 1970s one of these, E1600, was withdrawn from revenue service for use as an experimental 25kV AC locomotive and reclassified to Class Exp/AC. South African Class 6E1 Series 5 3kV DC electric locomotives were built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to the locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other locomotive builders was to...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-2008-0
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. South Dakota Highway 49 is a state route that runs north to south across the south central South Dakota. It begins at a junction with South Dakota Highway 47 just south of the White River, and terminates at the junction of U.S. Highway 18 and U.S. Highway 183 in Colome. It is 37 miles (60 kilometers) in length. The road currently known as South Dakota 49 first received a number in the late 1960s, when South Dakota Highway 147 was established as a branch off South Dakota 47. This branch extended from the junction near the White River to Hamill. In 1976, the route was designated as South Dakota 49, with the number...
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1987 and 1989 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 50 Class 10E1, Series 1 locomotives in service. The South African Class 10E1 Series 1 3kV DC electric locomotive was designed by GEC and built by Union Carriage and Wagon (UCW) in Nigel, Transvaal. In a break with prior practice, builder's numbers were allocated to Class 10E1 locomotives. With the exception of the Class 9E, also a GEC locomotive, UCW did not allocate builder's numbers to previous locomotives it built for the South African Railways. While the practice by most other...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0722-7
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 1927 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed two Class 18 2-10-2 steam locomotives in service. The South African Class 18 2-10-2 steam locomotive was designed and built by Henschel Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1348-1038-8
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Between 1914 and 1925 the South African Railways (SAR), later renamed Spoornet and then Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), placed 119 Class 15A 4-8-2 steam locomotives in service, delivered in ten batches from three manufacturers. The predecessor Class 15 locomotives had one flaw, excessively long firetubes. When more were ordered, SAR chief mechanical engineer D.A. Hendrie improved the boiler by adding a combustion chamber and shortening the distance between tube plates from 21 ft 9 in (6.629 m) to 19 ft (5.791 m) in the process. These locomotives became the Class 15A and were built in ten batches by three...
ISBN: 978-6-1348-0892-7
Издательство:
Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Southern is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Govia operating the South Central franchise. It is a subsidiary of Govia, a joint venture between transport groups Go-Ahead and Keolis, and has operated the South Central rail franchise since August 2001 and the Gatwick Express service since June 2008.