I have seen old sub. cars used for trash but what do they keep in the cars? I have seen 4 or 5 cars on the sub train why do they need so many? Crew, tools what else?

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Originally posted by trainman311:
I have seen old sub. cars used for trash but what do they keep in the cars? I have seen 4 or 5 cars on the sub train why do they need so many? Crew, tools what else?

Wellll - bins for picked up trash? Quite a bit of it accumulates as its picked up at each station.

Maybe space for a few replacement station trash cans for any that might be damaged, were set on fire, etc. A 4 to 5 car train length might be used for better or safer operation, in signal detection, braking, going through third rail gaps at crossovers and junctions, etc.

Ed Bommer

Make sense;Thanks Ed.

In NYC, if using R127 cars (they look like windowless R62's) in trash-collection service, thre are usually just two of them.

In hot weather, they may take a single-unit R62 along for the air-conditioning (speculation--I don't know for certain, but it's a likely explanation--the R127s' don't have A/C).

If using Redbirds, they may be a car class that only exists as married pairs.

I've seen video of trash-collection trains in Toronto--apparently they just carry bagged trash inside old cars withdrawn from passenger service. (must stink to run those )

---PCJ