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Mark Brader wrote:
> 
> 
> Speaking of worlds limited to the NYC-DC axis, is it false that the DC
> subway system includes the world's longest escalator.  There are several
> longer ones elsewhere, mostly in the subways of the former Soviet Union.
> (Details tend to be fragmentary, with different sources giving different
> ones as the longest.)

Lessee. We used to ahve the world's longest subway escalator, which was in
the Rosslyn, Virginia, station. Then it developed that the Soviet Union, not
to be outdone, went and built a slightly longer one.

To the best of my knowledge, the Wheaton, Maryland station now does have the
world's longest escalator. It's a bit more than twice as long as the Rosslyn
escalator.

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