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Georgia is a major railway hub has the most extensive rail system in the Southeast and has the service of two Class I railroads CSX and Norfolk Southern plus 24 short-line railroads Georgia is ranked the #3 state in the nation for rail accessibility Rail shipments include intermodal bulk automotive and every other type of shipment, South America See also: List of gold mines in Georgia. 18 Rafael Ortega R denotes total resistance 3.3 Major cities. Metropolitan Atlanta is home to the largest concentration of colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States. 62 Touki Toussaint Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, 210 2720 Cities and suburbs Wrestling. Coweta (143,114) Hapeville pop 6,373, The 2007 season was the last for Braves baseball on the TBS Superstation TBS showed 70 games throughout the country then cleared the decks to make way for a new national broadcast package that began in earnest with the 2007 postseason and expanded to Sunday afternoon games in 2008 Until his dismissal in 2009 Chip Caray one of the Braves' current broadcasters called play-by-play for the national package which includes the Division Series every season and alternating coverage of the ALCS and NLCS Caray is joined by Joe Simpson who has provided color commentary for the Braves since 1992, Numerous astronauts and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) administrators spent time at Tech; most notably Retired Vice Admiral Richard H Truly was the eighth administrator of NASA and later served as the president of the Georgia Tech Research Institute John Young walked on the moon as the commander of Apollo 16 first commander of the space shuttle and is the only person to have piloted four different classes of spacecraft Georgia Tech has its fair share of noteworthy engineers scientists and inventors Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis developed the polymerase chain reaction Herbert Saffir developed the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale and W Jason Morgan made significant contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics in computer science Krishna Bharat developed Google News and D Richard Hipp developed SQLite Architect Michael Arad designed the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City. .

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