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Metroliner (other)
Metroliner or Metro Liner may refer to: *Metroliner (train), a former train service between New York and Washington, D.C. *Budd Metroliner, rail coaches and cabs used on the Metroliner service above *Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner, an aircraft *MCW Metroliner, a British bus *NABI BRT, NABI 60-BRT, the buses developed for the Metro Liner bus rapid transit system in California See also *Metro line (other) * * * * *Metrolina (other) *Liner (other) *Metro (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metroliner (train)
The ''Metroliners'' were extra-fare high speed trains between Washington, D.C. and New York City which operated from 1969 to 2006. They were briefly first operated by Penn Central Transportation (successor to the Pennsylvania Railroad, which originally ordered the equipment), then by Amtrak for 35 years. Service originally ran with Budd Metroliners, self-powered electric multiple unit cars designed for high-speed service. These proved unreliable and were replaced with locomotive-hauled trains in the 1980s. The trains had reserved business-class and first-class seating. The fastest trips between New York's Pennsylvania Station and Washington, D.C.'s Union Station were scheduled for 2.5 hours, though some midday trains around 1980 had schedules as long as 4 hours. Amtrak replaced ''Metroliner'' service with the high-speed ''Acela Express'', which runs up to in revenue service. The first ''Acela Express'' trains ran in 2000, but due to equipment difficulties they did not fully r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budd Metroliner
The Budd Metroliner was a class of American electric multiple unit (EMU) railcar designed for first-class, high-speed service between New York City and Washington, D.C. on the Northeast Corridor. They were designed for operation up to : what would have been the first high speed rail service in the Western Hemisphere. Although was reached during test runs, track conditions and electrical issues limited top speeds to in revenue service. The single-ended units were designed to be arranged in two-car sets, which were in turn coupled into four to eight-car trains. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) ordered 61 Metroliner cars from the Budd Company in 1966 as part of a collaboration with the federal government to improve railroad service between New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. After difficulties testing the cars, PRR successor Penn Central began its eponymous '' Metroliner'' service on January 16, 1969. Amtrak took over the service in 1971. Despite high aspirations, the Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (previously the Swearingen Metro and later Fairchild Aerospace Metro) is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas. Design The Metroliner was an evolution of the Swearingen Merlin turboprop-powered business aircraft. Ed Swearingen, a Texas fixed-base operator (FBO), started the developments that led to the Metro through gradual modifications to the Beechcraft Twin Bonanza and Queen Air business aircraft, which he dubbed Excalibur. A new fuselage (but with a similar nose) and vertical fin were then developed, married to salvaged and rebuilt (wet) Queen Air wings and horizontal tails, and Twin Bonanza landing gear; this became the SA26 Merlin, more or less a pressurized Excalibur. Through successive models (the SA26-T Merlin IIA and SA26-AT Merlin IIB) the engines were changed to Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6, then Garrett TPE331 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MCW Metroliner
The MCW Metroliner was a coach built by Metro Cammell Weymann (MCW) in the 1980s. The Metroliner was available as a standard single-deck coach, or the more numerous and striking tri-axle double-deck coach. The Metroliner saw service in the UK with nationalised operators National Bus Company (NBC) and Scottish Bus Group (SBG) for their long-distance coach National Express and Scottish Citylink express services, as well as with competing operators such as Tyne & Wear PTE's Armstrong Galley ''Clipper'' service and the London Buses/ West Midland Travel ''London Liner'' joint operation. Others saw operation with NBC subsidiaries' commuter coach operations, such as the short-lived ''Kentish Express'' of Kentish Bus, Alder Valley and the Oxford Bus Company's ''Oxford Citylink''. Few Metroliners were purchased for touring or private hire work, although many were used for such duties after retiring from express duties. Due to the limited demand for older double deck coaches and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NABI BRT
Nabi may refer to: People *Adil Nabi (born 1994), English footballer * Heiki Nabi (born 1985), Estonian wrestler * Isadore Nabi, satirical pseudonym of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, scientists in the 1960s * Mohammad Nabi (born 1985), Afghan cricketer * Samir Nabi (born 1997), English footballer * Yusuf Nabi (1642–1712), Turkish poet * Nabi Avcı (born 1953), Turkish academic and politician * Nabi Şensoy (1945–2018) Turkish diplomat *Nabi Tajima (1900–2018), Japanese supercentenarian and last living person born in the 19th century Acronym * Native American Bahá'í Institute, a Regional Bahá'í Training Institute in Burntwater, Arizona, United States * North American Bus Industries, a bus manufacturing company based in Alabama, United States Other uses * ''Nabi'' (film), a 2001 South Korean film * Nabi, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran * Typhoon Nabi, a 2005 super typhoon * Prophets of Islam, humans who, in the Islamic faith, have been chosen as prophe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Line (other)
The Metro Line is a light rail transit line on the Edmonton LRT system. The line operates from northwest Edmonton to south Edmonton, and was scheduled to have begun operation by spring 2014 but instead opened on September 6, 2015, at a reduced speed and frequency. The line uses of new track, three new stations, and seven stations on the existing Capital Line. In August 2021, service on the Metro Line was modified to end at Health Sciences/Jubilee station, as was originally planned but delayed due to signalling issues which caused trains to run a reduced frequency to the interim terminus at Century Park station to ensure the Capital Line could run at full frequency. The cost of the project was $665 million, jointly funded by the City of Edmonton, Province of Alberta, and the Government of Canada. It is the first new line that is not an extension of the existing line. The line was expected to add 13,200 riders per weekday. A trip from NAIT station to is expected to take nine m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metrolina (other)
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Metrolina is the metropolitan area within and surrounding the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. Metrolina may also refer to: * Metrolina Native American Association, a Native American community association in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina * Metrolina Regional Scholars' Academy, a charter school in Charlotte, North Carolina * Metrolina Speedway, a defunct auto racing track located in northeast Charlotte, North Carolina * Metrolina Theatre Association, a non-profit organization based in Charlotte, North Carolina See also * * Metroliner (other) * Metro line (other) The Metro Line is a light rail transit line on the Edmonton LRT system. The line operates from northwest Edmonton to south Edmonton, and was scheduled to have begun operation by spring 2014 but instead opened on September 6, 2015, at a reduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liner (other)
A low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER) is a type of galactic nucleus that is defined by its spectral line emission. The spectra typically include line emission from weakly ionized or neutral atoms, such as O, O+, N+, and S+. Conversely, the spectral line emission from strongly ionized atoms, such as O++, Ne++, and He+, is relatively weak. The class of galactic nuclei was first identified by Timothy Heckman in the third of a series of papers on the spectra of galactic nuclei that were published in 1980. Demographics of LINER galaxies Galaxies that contain LINERs are often referred to as ''LINER galaxies''. LINER galaxies are very common; approximately one-third of all nearby galaxies (galaxies within approximately 20-40 Mpc) may be classified as LINER galaxies. Approximately 75% of LINER galaxies are either elliptical galaxies, lenticular galaxies, or S0/a-Sab galaxies (spiral galaxies with large bulges and tightly wound spiral arms). LINERs are f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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