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Portugal: RTP See also: Electric locomotive and Railway electrification system, 1.4 The 1980s and 1990s The Atlanta Opera brings opera to Georgia stages the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is the most widely recognized orchestra and largest arts organization in the southeastern United States. Rail corrugation is a common issue with transit systems due to the high number of light-axle wheel passages which result in grinding of the wheel/rail interface Since maintenance may overlap with operations maintenance windows (nighttime hours off-peak hours altering train schedules or routes) must be closely followed in addition passenger safety during maintenance work (inter-track fencing proper storage of materials track work notices hazards of equipment near states) must be regarded at all times at times maintenance access problems can emerge due to tunnels elevated structures and congested cityscapes Here specialized equipment or smaller versions of conventional maintenance gear are used, 1.4 Stadium firsts In fiscal year 2018 Amtrak served 31.7 million passengers and had $3.4 billion in revenue while employing more than 20,000 people Nearly 87,000 passengers ride more than 300 Amtrak trains on a daily basis Nearly two-thirds of passengers come from the 10 largest metropolitan areas; 83% of passengers travel on routes shorter than 400 miles (645 km).

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. The architecture of Atlanta is marked by a confluence of classical modernist post-modernist and contemporary architectural styles Due to the complete destruction of Atlanta by fire in 1864 the city's architecture retains no traces of its Antebellum past Instead Atlanta's status as a largely post-modern American city is reflected in its architecture as the city has often been the earliest if not the first to showcase new architectural concepts However Atlanta's embrace of modernism has translated into an ambivalence toward architectural preservation resulting in the destruction of architectural masterpieces including the Commercial-style Equitable Building (Atlanta's first skyscraper) the Beaux-Arts style Terminal Station and the Classical Carnegie Library the city's cultural icon the Neo-Moorish Fox Theatre would have met the same fate had it not been for a grassroots effort to save it in the mid-1970s. The Kessler Campanile seen from the Georgia Tech Student Center In 1972 the OMNI in Atlanta became home to the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League in 1980 the team had departed for Calgary Alberta becoming the Calgary Flames in 1999 the NHL returned to Atlanta in the form of the Atlanta Thrashers the Thrashers played in Philips Arena; however the team moved to Winnipeg Manitoba and became the current Winnipeg Jets in 2011 again leaving Atlanta without an NHL franchise. Georgia State Stadium is a college football stadium in Atlanta Georgia the stadium is the home of the Georgia State University Panthers football team as of the 2017 season replacing the Georgia Dome which had served as their home stadium from the program's inception in 2010 until 2016 it was also the home of the Atlanta Legends of the Alliance of American Football (AAF), KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Joint venture with Delta Air Lines), Main article: List of Atlanta Braves team records. . . M Amtrak points out that in 2010 its farebox recovery (percentage of operating costs covered by revenues generated by passenger fares) was 79% the highest reported for any U.S passenger railroad This increased to 94.9% in 2018. A College Football Hall of Fame Buford pop 12,225 13 See also Rail transport Tom Glavine.