Sunday:
A visit, again sponsored
by the New York Transit Museum, to the 180th St. Maintenance Facility, right by
the Bronx Zoo.
View of
yard, with 180th St. station in background.
Inside of
facility - Left - changeout of a subway air conditioning unit commonly done in
this facility.
The latest
model of subway cars are maintained at this facility and the superintendent of
the facility was discussing some of the engineering. 'Springs' on some models are actually air
bags.
As a side
note, if you exit the station at 180th St, you'll see a rather ornate Spanish
style buliding, that was the headquarters of a short lived railroad, the New
York, Westchester and Boston. It lasted
from 1912 to only 1937, and the portion of it from here to the northern Bronx
(Dyre. Ave.), became the northern segment of the #5 line in 1940. See map below. Note NYWB logo still on the building.
See http://www.nycsubway.org/nyc/nywb/
