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Redbirds
New York, NY - Peter - Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 : goo
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Two Redbird trains
in Manhattan's 72nd Street station in 1999. These two particular cars were
a permanently-attached "married couple", in which the car numbered 8900 contained the
motor-generator and batteries and the car numbered 8901 contained the air compressor.
These two subway cars were manufactured by the St. Louis Car Company for the
New York City Transit Authority in about 1963 and retired by the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) in 2003 and disposed of like this...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-submerged-subway-reef
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Brewster North: 9th Sep 2009 - 14:08 GMT
I think I may have seen that same pair considerably more recently, just randomly laid-up on one of the express tracks at 86th St quite late in the evening. Wonder what the MTA uses them for, besides artificial reefs and museum-pieces?
anon (pool-151-202-89-179.ny325.east.verizon.net): 10th Sep 2009 - 01:52 GMT
Don't they use the old cars as parts of "work trains," those trains you see late at night made up of old cars that do maintenance on the tracks and in the stations?
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