Inside a Metro Train Control Room

Get a behind the scenes look inside one of Metro's train control rooms. See the equipment and track circuit control modules in action.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• WMATA
• Metro
• dc
• trainsit
• transportation
• subway
• bus
• washington

[missuma2]

Quite interesting, informative & detailed. Thanks for giving an insight of this - seems more understandable (& reminds me of some "train" movies like The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (original & remake w/Denzel Washington & John Travolta), etc. Growing up in NYC & always taking trains in Manhattan this also gives me more of an "appreciation" of what the Subway & Metro controllers do behind the scenes, so to speak... Kudos!

[metroopensdoors]

@missuma2 Thanks for the comments.

[sturmovikdragon]

The 1970's were the last time when electronics technology could still be considered interesting from a human perspective. today all of these discrete components have been consolidated into integrated circuits or simple implemented "virtually" in software. On a new system when a train crashes it will be because some coder programmed in some integer overflow that causes a race condition and not some failure of physical equipment.

[oscardaone]

For a simple way of detecting the metro, it looks a bit complicated.

[Mariofan19991]

That's what I hate about leaving comments on YouTube, they always mess up.

Again, I'm REALLY sorry!!!

[Mariofan19991]

heh, heh.... sorry....

[WhopBobbaLuBop]

I was agreeing with the sturmovikdragon comment at the top of the page. Obviously, you are busy trying to be profane & a worthless piece of dog shit!

[Mariofan19991]

You both shut the Fuck up the Metro rocks!!!!

[WhopBobbaLuBop]

Yup!