I like to imagine at night the wall pocket flips 180 and they have a small apartment. and then in the morning they all flip back around at the same time and they start working again
When there is a section of rail (five to eight feet approximately) that needs to be replaced in a hurry or in an emergency, those five guys are also the reason they're there.
@SNOWDROP10NYCTISALSOVERNONBLV thats the last place i wanna live, id be sleeping next to 600 volts that be a rude awakening if i touched it, id also have to deal with train sounds and people talking bad place to live
You should note - for those that want to try this, not all of them are made for standing there. There are some that don't go as deep and if you try it you will get hit by the oncoming train.
I wouldn't want a camera on top of me filming while I was trying to work either. Clever guy to put a stop to it with the bright glare from his flash light!
Filming people without reason can be considered rude or disrespect them, if they are on vacation or not in work it maybe fine, but in this case especially ppl in worker class filming them can be considered you looking down on them and you made them feel uncomfortable. Just respect other people doing their work.
The depth of the niches as shown here are an indicator of the thickness of the layers between the face of the steel frame for the station and the sidewall with the tiles. The farther away the distance, the wider the niche. When the Eighth Avenue subway was built, the section between 14th and 207th Streets apparently still used the 2" standard between face of steel frame and sidewall that was used for building the Dual Contracts sections of IRT and BMT stations in the 1910's and early '20's. It had gone up to 3.5" by the time the section between West 4th and what was then Chambers Street-Hudson Terminal was built, and by the time the Sixth Avenue line was built in the late 1930's that distance had increased further to a total of 7.5". (Info from old Engineering News-Records.)
Dam Pham the tube was first built in 1863, the new York subways first underground line was built in 1904 if that answers your question. London was the first underground system ever built and even if we are talking about deep level lines (eg 20m compared to 10m) the first deep level tube line was built in 1870 Edit: in summary, much older than the new York subway actually but TFL (transport for London) which are the operators are upgrading what they can. For example, we are building a whole new railway line that will go underground in the centre (search crossrail)
I know they are still building out there. I did fact check to see which was built first. It still does not compare to the size and scope of the NYC system. So I can imagine London should be much easier to maintain. Since it does not run 24/7.
The UK rail maintenance has a RU-vid channel, they seem to work on active lines too. One guy keeps an eye down the line and blows a horn when a train comes. I think it’s pretty common in a lot if not most countries. Roads and electricity networks are kept live also while work is being done on it. So why not on train lines.
Water Tester: I worked 11 years with BART (SF Bay Area Rapid Transit) as a train operator. If a section of track has a problem that needs immediate repair and service doesn't need to stop in order to allow it (i.e., it's not a dangerous situation), the trains continue to roll and workers move out of the way when necessary. As a train approaches, BART Central takes the train out of automatic mode and the train operator controls the train's movement until it is out of the work area. At that point the train returns to automatic mode. If the work needed is not that pressing, it waits until the system closes for the night. Just about every subway system does this, as do commuter and long distance railroads. This is far from unusual - it's commonplace.
Negevs are for pros : There's usually a flag man at the end of the station to signal the train to stop if the track workers need to evacuate the tracks. That's why the train entered the station at a reduced speed.
MISINFORMATION I TELL YOU!!!!! the legendary subway workers (not the food kind) can jump between realities and their subways systems when their work is obstructed. thats how train lines are maintained on a multiverse level. well atleast acording to legend.
But these are simple recruits into the subway maintenance worker faction. They are yet to master their powers unlike their more heavily trained veteran comrades.
Delia M Yes, There training is extensive....around 5 years of schooling for electricians, and they make BANK working on the tracks Also the guys that take overtime, confined spaces, ect. are making around $120+....This is what they do, There more likely to die by electrocution then by a train
Nuxf Official I have a uncle who worked for Mta They we’re doing track work.. and higher up forgot to turn of tracks and his toes got burnt off thank god it was just that.. so idc what kind of training they have one simple mistake that’s your ass.. so idc about all that money they make I’m sorry I just don’t have a good night 🤷🏽♀️
Reminds me of Superman when Lex Luthor pushed a button from his lair, and made the wall extend outward, pushing the cop out onto the tracks in front of the train. Lol
Man do you even know how big those big fat monster trains are, they're extremely big and if you're fat and working there it will run you over and rip off your guts and intestines
THATS what those holes on the wall are used for. They look so smug and chill as a massive train rummbles into the station and are no more then 1 fooraway from it
Pretty sure we have them here in Sydney, Australia too. I'm not sure if they use them that often. I'm pretty sure our train workers just shut down the entire train line if they need to work on them.
I have seen this hides in an old Superman movie where the police investigator was chasing a helper of Lex Luthor in a subway tunnel and a train was coming. The investigator took such a hide and Lex from inside his hide pressed a button and pushed the detective onto the tracks!
(1) There is a 5-foot (1.5-meter) difference between the railbed and the platform, thus "jumping onto the platform" is nearly humanly impossible, especially for someone of an average height, to do so without running the risk of falling onto the tracks and being crushed by the train or making contact with the third rail and being fried to death and then being crushed by the train. (2) That's what those niches were made for--the MTA is one of the few subway (metro) systems that run 24-hours a day, 7 days a week in the world and shutting down a line just to repair one component would bring an entire section of the city, if not the entire city, to a standstill. And (3) there is "one person working while others are looking" because of safety. If you have your head down and hammering in a pin, you cannot always hear the oncoming train--the other workers are there to watch for any oncoming dangers. It's called "safety first"--because if that worker were killed, his family could sue the MTA for millions simply because the other workers were not present to warn him (or her) of an oncoming danger. In other words, in the United States (for the most part) people's lives aren't put in danger just for a paycheck.
Those track beds are deeper than they look and it would be a waste of time and energy for those men to climb in and out of the track bed every time a train comes.
3rd rail will kill you; it's really hard to climb that shit; why would they do that when they could just wait? I can tell you're definitely not from ny
