Man overboard! (Photo courtesy of Reuters)
Last Tuesday, I noted the impending reefing of a bunch of old subway cars. Well, bad weather postponed the sinking of the old cars until Friday, and three days ago, Reuters reporters and photographers were on hand to capture the subways going down to the sea bed. The news wire had a short story about the sinking and a nifty slideshow too. My favorite is this one that shows the train slowly sinking. It’s poignantly sad. I’d love to be on that barge watching the cars go down.
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Am I the oly one that wonders, at a time when ferrous metal prices are at an all-time high, NYCT is PAYING tothers to throw away what appears in the picture to be some solid stainless-steel carbodies?
I had the exact same thought.
I actually love the idea of building reefs with our old subway cars.
But these things have got to be worth a significant amount of money with scrap prices where they are today.
At the very least, some other agency should be paying the MTA the scrap value for the use of these cars.