Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Washington DC and Lexington, Virginia
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:26:45 -0400
References: <3.0.2.32.20011025212906.006cbeb8@roanoke.infi.net>

> At 08:55 PM 10/25/01 -0400, Simon Stevens wrote:
> >>the longest escalator in the world goes from street
> >>level down, down, down to the Metro.
> >But anyway, is Dupont's really the longest? I seem to recall riding on
> >escalators in London where my ears popped on the way down, down, down,
> >down.

In FACT, the escalator at the Roslyn, VA Metro station - right across
the river from D.C., is the SECOND longest in the world - or at least
was when it was put in. The longest, then, was in Russia - I'm not sure
where, but I believe it was in Moscow.

B. D.
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In reply to: Message from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> ([Leica] Washington DC and Lexington, Virginia)