The plan is to transfer the Giotto Tower, Verona Tower, Little Chimney and the Engine House in Holbeck Urban Village into a trust.

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He also got a peek at the NASA engine shop, shuttle landing facility and control tower, vehicle assembly building, and mobile launch platforms, as well as several other difficult-to-remember locales.

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In one, he captures the experience of being from a "jerkwater" town: a village so small that steam-train crews had to "jerk" water up from streams or from people holding buckets along the tracks because there was no water tower from which to refill the engine.

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The fire house -- Engine Company 8 and Ladder Company 2 -- lost eight firefighters in the twin tower attacks.

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