Swiss Celebrate Completion of World's Longest Railway Tunnel
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On October 15th, the people of Switzerland celebrated with abandon, as the drill broke through the last piece of rock, finally connecting the two ends of the Gotthard Base Tunnel - The world's longest railway tunnel. The mammoth undertaking that cost about 10 billion USD took 2,600 workers, 12 years to accomplish - And, it's not done yet.
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- frenchvanillababe약 15년i love the Swiss alps. i have read about them in one of the 4000000000000 books i have read!!!! they are coolio!
- skippy약 15년this was great,i think,i wasn't really sure whether or not but i liked the stone age people eat meat and bread better i didn't know caveman would eat bread but i can see why meat
- project gaga약 15년omg, im doing this for my discussion bord, my teacher is insane for thinking a 7th grader would be intrested in this!
- pj약 15년cool
- frewe약 15년spain
- someone약 15년great, now all i have to do is wite it down for my current event.
- Pink Panther약 15년For a person who named their sticker 'Nerd', for something you put on your comment, the country is not Swiss. Its called Switzerland, the cheese and chocolate there is called Swiss. Haha, yummm Swiss chocolate is actually got to be the best chocolate I have ever tasted in my life.
- Pink Panther약 15년12 years is actually long, but you have to remember that they are railing in the mountains of Europe aka The Alps. In the United States of America the railways usually took around 2 to 6 years. I am in the seventh grade in the Southeastern part of the US.
- nerd약 15년I would like to go to Swiss. Many of my questions must be heard. :)
- athena약 15년omg 12 YEARS ON A RAILROAD IS PRETTY DARN LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!