For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Transportation Security Administration nominee Maj. Gen. Robert Harding told senators last week that he hoped to quickly transform aviation security by having screeners interact more with airline passengers and moving "closer to an Israeli model."
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TSA left in holding pattern? (USA Today)
The great snowstorm of Feb. 5-6, 2010, is history - quite literally.Officially, 28.5 inches was measured at Philadelphia International Airport, just shy of the all-time record for snow in 126 years of record-keeping.
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HAMMERED! (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
It's time to start appointing our State Supreme Court judges. After the high court ruled it was OK for justices to stay on cases involving even those who contribute significant sums of money to their campaigns, I can see no other way for us to regain some sliver of trust in the impartiality of the system.
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Emily's Post: Activist judges, trains and bikes, Scott Walker, and Feingold and the filibuster (Isthmus)
Only four passenger trains daily visit Pittsburgh's Amtrak station, taking five hours or longer to trek across mountains to Harrisburg and Washington, or nine hours through the night to Chicago.
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Rail stimulus paltry for Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
London, Shanghai and several other international cities have had it for long; closer home, Delhi will have one before the Commonwealth Games.
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Fliers can check in at Metro station, zip to airport (IE via Yahoo! India News)
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Readers Write 10/01 (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Like a train moving along the tracks, Larry Smykalski reached his destination.
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The Canada Line is proving history has a way of repeating itself. By the dawn of the 20th century, Richmond had no sophisticated transportation, only horse-drawn vehicles. Cannery workers commuted from Vancouver to Steveston by boat.
Imagine zipping above the sidewalk crowds in a personal transporter pod suspended from a two foot wide cable propelled by a magnetic field. It's not as far-fetched as you may think. A California startup called Unimodal is building what it calls the SkyTran system--a series of two-person pods that move eight to fifteen feet above people on the ground. Unlike traditional Maglev trains that run on ...
The house on Larue Court is bombarded by noise from nearby trains, cars, trucks and planes using Louisville International Airport. But the sound is diminished inside the home, thanks to $48,000 in improvements. Airport officials cite the home as a model for a new soundproofing program.
More here: Airport's soundproof program takes off (Louisville Courier-Journal)