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. Amtrak owns 2,142 railway cars and 425 locomotives for revenue runs and service Examples include the GE P42DC the Siemens ACS-64 the Amfleet car and the Superliner car Occasionally private cars or loaned locomotives from other railroads can be found on Amtrak trains. 51/11 63/17 In 1784 James Watt a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer patented a design for a steam locomotive Watt had improved the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen hitherto used to pump water out of mines and developed a reciprocating engine in 1769 capable of powering a wheel This was a large stationary engine powering cotton mills and a variety of machinery; the state of boiler technology necessitated the use of low pressure steam acting upon a vacuum in the cylinder which required a separate condenser and an air pump Nevertheless as the construction of boilers improved Watt investigated the use of high-pressure steam acting directly upon a piston raising the possibility of a smaller engine that might be used to power a vehicle Following his patent Watt's employee William Murdoch produced a working model of a self-propelled steam carriage in that year, 8 Transportation Ridership increased during the first decade of the 21st century after implementation of capital improvements in the NEC and rises in automobile fuel costs the inauguration of the high-speed Acela Express in late 2000 generated considerable publicity and led to major ridership gains However through the late 1990s and very early 21st century Amtrak could not add sufficient express freight revenue or cut sufficient other expenditures to break even by 2002 it was clear that Amtrak could not achieve self-sufficiency but Congress continued to authorize funding and released Amtrak from the requirement in early 2002 David L Gunn replaced Warrington as president In a departure from his predecessors' promises to make Amtrak self-sufficient in the short term Gunn argued that no form of passenger transportation in the United States is self-sufficient as the economy is currently structured Highways airports and air traffic control all require large government expenditures to build and operate coming from the Highway Trust Fund and Aviation Trust Fund paid for by user fees highway fuel and road taxes and in the case of the General Fund from general taxation Gunn dropped most freight express business and worked to eliminate deferred maintenance, Tree canopy Formation Composition Despite their highly technical backgrounds Tech graduates are no strangers to the arts or athletic competition Among them comedian/actor Jeff Foxworthy of Blue Collar Comedy Tour fame and Randolph Scott both called Tech home Several famous athletes have as well; about 150 Tech students have gone into the National Football League (NFL) with many others going into the National Basketball Association (NBA) or Major League Baseball (MLB) Well-known American football athletes include all-time greats such as Joe Hamilton Pat Swilling Billy Shaw and Joe Guyon former Tech head football coaches Pepper Rodgers and Bill Fulcher and recent students such as Calvin Johnson and Tashard Choice Some of Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Josh Okogie Chris Bosh Derrick Favors Thaddeus Young Jarrett Jack and Iman Shumpert Award-winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown Mark Teixeira Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Varitek in golf Tech alumni include the legendary Bobby Jones who founded the Masters and David Duval who was ranked the No 1 golfer in the world in 1999.

Climate chart (explanation) Main article: List of Atlanta Braves team records, 15 References Surrounding Atlanta's three high-rise districts are the city's low- and medium-density neighborhoods where the craftsman bungalow single-family home is dominant the eastside is marked by historic streetcar suburbs built from the 1890s-1930s as havens for the upper middle class These neighborhoods many of which contain their own villages encircled by shaded architecturally-distinct residential streets include the Victorian Inman Park Bohemian East Atlanta and eclectic Old Fourth Ward on the westside and along the BeltLine on the eastside former warehouses and factories have been converted into housing retail space and art galleries transforming the once-industrial areas such as West Midtown into model neighborhoods for smart growth historic rehabilitation and infill construction in southwest Atlanta neighborhoods closer to downtown originated as streetcar suburbs including the historic West End while those farther from downtown retain a postwar suburban layout including Collier Heights and Cascade Heights home to much of the city's affluent African American population Northwest Atlanta contains the areas of the city to west of Marietta Boulevard and to the north of Martin Luther King Jr Drive including those neighborhoods remote to downtown such as Riverside Bolton and Whittier Mill which is one of Atlanta's designated Landmark Historical Neighborhoods Vine City though technically Northwest adjoins the city's Downtown area and has recently been the target of community outreach programs and economic development initiatives, 9.1 Major healthcare systems Handball ? ? 48/9 84/29 52/11 83/28, Georgia Tech's East Campus and Central Campus as seen from an elevated point near Peachtree Street and North Avenue Bobby Dodd Stadium is in the foreground Tech Tower and Junior's Grill are in the background to the left and the Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center is in the background and to the right the Varsity is in the immediate foreground between the viewer and Bobby Dodd Stadium, The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain 1864. Braves baseball had been on TBS since it was WTCG in 1972 and had been a cornerstone of the national superstation since it began in 1976 WPCH-TV/Peachtree TV formerly WTBS Atlanta still carried Braves games after 2007 but only in parts of the Southern United States After the transfer of the channel's operations from Time Warner to Meredith Corporation all Peachtree TV games were simulcast on Fox Sports South outside of the Peachtree TV coverage area in 2011 and 2012 on February 27 2013 it was announced that Fox Sports South and SportSouth (now called Fox Sports Southeast) would carry every regionally televised Braves game exclusively ending the team's partnership with WPCH-TV after 40 years, Meriwether (21,049) Athens 51/11 Georgia county and city public school systems are administered by school boards with members elected at the local level as of 2013 all but 19 of 181 boards are elected from single-member districts Residents and activist groups in Fayette County Georgia sued the board of commissioners and school board for maintaining an election system based on at-large voting which tended to increase the power of the majority and effectively prevented minority participation on elected local boards for nearly 200 years a change to single-member districts has resulted in the African-American minority being able to elect representatives of its choice. 2 World Series championships AAA Gwinnett Stripers International League Lawrenceville Georgia, 8.1 Colleges and universities Industry in Georgia is diverse. See also: List of hospitals in Georgia (U.S state), MaggieMoo's and Marble Slab Creamery had their headquarters in an unincorporated area in the county however,[citation needed] now those companies are located in neighboring Gwinnett County in Norcross.