Thu 12 Nov 2009
Time to Make the Subway Cars!
Posted by TJ under Subway
National Geographic has a special tonight on how New York subway cars are made. It’s a series called Ultimate Factories, which visits the production plant in Hornell, New York to see how the R160 cars come together.
Actually, the NY Times notes, the cars come together in France and Brazil, and are merely finished in New York.
The Times TV critic says watching the decades-old cars tossed off the Maryland coast to become marine life reefs comes with some degree of satisfaction.
Writes Neil Genzlinger:
Watching those cars going under feels like revenge, or vindication, or something, for all those appointments missed because the R and the N — the Rarely and the Never — didn’t show up, or because an indecipherable intercom failed to convey that the E train was going to skip the next 20 stops, or insert your own subway nightmare here.
It’s on Nat Geo at 8 tonight.