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From: sullivan@acf4.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Attention: Subway Enthusiasts
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Date: Tue, 8-May-84 08:54:00 EDT
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Nf-From: acf4!sullivan    May 25 08:54:00 1984


I love to talk about subways too, as do a few others here at New York 
University.  Needless to say, the NYC subway line is our strong point,
being the one most of us have to survive twice a day.  I hold the somewhat
dubious distinction of having to ride the longest distance (though not by
much of a margin over the #2 rider here) which takes me about 1 1/2 hours
to traverse on a "good" (read, "rare") day.  Here in NYC the big subway
item is the new cars just bought from a Japenese firm.  The cars are in a
test state right now, seeing limited duties on various lines to get the
feel of them.  I recall that the major problem with them has been with the
doors breaking down;  the doors are one of the parts made in the good ol'
US of A.  I believe that on the first day these babies hit the tracks, before
they had left their first station, someone was arrested for trying to be the
absolute first to put graffiti on them!

Does anyone have any good references to how signalling is done on various
railroads?

David Sullivan				...!floyd!cmcl2!acf4!sullivan