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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Bi-State Development Agency, Chicago Transit Authority, RTA, Rapid transit in Illinois, Gateway Arch, Chicago 'L', List of Chicago 'L' stations, 108 North State Street, List of closed Chicago 'L' stations, Purple Line, Metra, Blue Line, List of Chicago Transit Authority bus routes, Green Line, MetroLink, Red Line, Brown Line, Regional Transportation Authority, Pink Line, Orange Line, Yellow Line, List of St. Louis MetroLink stations, The Loop, MetroBus, Ron Huberman, Pace, South Side Elevated Railroad, Northwestern Elevated Railroad, Chicago Card, Railfan: Chicago Transit Authority Brown Line, Wells Street Terminal, Kenwood branch, Madison County Transit, Delmar Loop Trolley, St. Louis Downtown Airport, 1977 Chicago Loop derailment, Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, MetroSouth Corridor, Metropolitan Main Line, Lake Street Elevated Railroad, Chicago Rapid Transit Company, St. Louis Commuter Rail, Alfred H. Savage, St. Louis Bus Rapid Transit, Madison County Corridors, Chicago Motor Coach Company, St. Clair County Transit District, NorthSide Corridor, Daniel Boone Corridor, MetroNorth Corridor, SouthSide Corridor, St. Charles Corridor, MetroWest Corridor, NorthWest Connector, Frank Kruesi, SouthWest Corridor, St. Clair Extension, Metro Call-A-Ride, Ewing Yard, 29th Street Yard, Roosevelt, Harlem, Pulaski. Excerpt: The Gateway Arch, or Gateway to the West, is an arch that is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. It was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States. At 630 feet (192 m), it is the tallest man-made monument in the United States, Missouri's tallest accessible building, and the largest architectural structure designed as a weighted or flattened catenary arch. Located on the west bank of the Mississippi River where the city of St. Lo...