Subway cars for reef deployment

Subway cars from NYC MTA stripped and cleaned for deployment on artificial reef sites. Super habitat for increasing the biomass.

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Sports

Tags:

• reef
• fishing

[timo518]

This makes no fucking sense. Why don't they make one model of a train and stick with it. These R40's were perfectly good running trains, but NOO, they needa throw it in the damn ocean.

[music1chanel]

why throw old trains in the water?

[zapper067]

Good way to clean these trains...

[my90tp]

@tryithere The V sets on the Cityrail Network in Sydney Australia were released in 1968 and there still on the rails (last one put on to tracks in 1989) so some of which are 44 odd years old and there a good reliable train there soon to be retired from 2020, there an awesome train and despite there age they are quieter and more comfertable then the Newer trains on the cityrail fleet but I prefer the Tangara's (Tangara is an aboriginal word meaing "TO GO" known as the T and G sets)

[junjun798]

@kidfrombrooklyn66 its 40 yrs not 30

[solarisgalrocks]

wow, imagine being inside that subway - better hold on to the pole.....!! lol

[tryithere]

@timo518 They were perfectly good running trains because they cost a fortune in maintenance with their age.

[skorpeon450]

@timo518 some people want to get to places faster. they throw the trains in the ocean to promote marine life and to control erosion

[Noveltooner]

80 of the R46s (more, it the North Shore line ir reactivated) are slated to replace the R44s on the Staten Island Railway. The R44s have a modified structure and stainless steel beltlines (unlike the subway versions, which were carbon steel). They were modified for the SIR when they originally arrived to FRA standards and run under a special waiver, as the SIR is a class-B commuter railroad. The R46 structure was already designed for the LIRR and the aborted Queens Super Express Bypass.

[Noveltooner]

The cost of realigning the sides of the A units to line the doors up with each other (necessary to accomodate the necessary full-length cabs) was cost prohibitive. However, the 75-foot all-stainless steel R46s are being considered for such a re-fit, with the same ceiling, lighting, speakers and HVAC units as the R160, fluting added to the exterior roof structure, similar Kawasaki trucks (modified to handle the weight of the heavier cars), and Bombardier propulsion in current A-B-B-A form.

[Noveltooner]

The R40s and R42s (a few of the latter still running on the J line) were becoming structurally unsound, thanks to St. Louis Car's shotwelding of stainless steel parts to carbon steel and the extreme corrosion at the points where they were joined; that's what killed the R44 cars. Kawasaki had proposed useing the all-stainless steel and aluminum R32 shells to remanufacture them as new cars with the R160 features in A-B-B-B-A unit configuration like the R160s.

[mrlal1234]

@timo518 Along with the 68'sand the 44's they were one of the fastest