Where does that trash come from, where is it going, and why is it on in the subway between two Redbirds?
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Station platforms I guess. Doubt they haul it upstairs to the street. Have you ever seen how much trash a 100,000 + people generate in a day?
Apparently there was a pilot program to remove the trash cans from the subway. Rather than encouraging people to take their trash with them, it had the opposite effect. There seems to be a lot of trash that now needs to be removed.
RSJB18 posted:Have you ever seen how much trash a 100,000 + people generate in a day?
I don't think I want to see (or smell) that much trash. 
Sometimes it's between Redbirds, sometimes other old cars - train needs propulsion. Crew that empties the trash receptacles and puts the bags onto the train rides in the cars from station to station. I think some trash (perhaps from receptacles outside the fare gates) does get brought up to street level. I often see a pile of bags on the street near the top of the steps to the Cortlandt Street station late at night.
David
Simple answer...it's garbage from the system,it's always been collected that way...trash cans from the platforms etc.
NKP Muncie posted:Sometimes it's between Redbirds, sometimes other old cars - train needs propulsion. Crew that empties the trash receptacles and puts the bags onto the train rides in the cars from station to station. I think some trash (perhaps from receptacles outside the fare gates) does get brought up to street level. I often see a pile of bags on the street near the top of the steps to the Cortlandt Street station late at night.
David
Usually a porter collects the trash bags from the outside-of-fare-control area and places them inside the mini-Dumpsters located in enclosures on the platform.
---PCJ
RSJB18 posted:Station platforms I guess. Doubt they haul it upstairs to the street. Have you ever seen how much trash a 100,000 + people generate in a day?
Approximate daily average: 6 million customers.
No one knows where it goes. Maybe put it on a barge and send it to Joisy.
Railfan Brody posted:Where does that trash come from, where is it going, and why is it on in the subway between two Redbirds?
ummm....its gotta go somewhere....
Joisey? No try penciltucky and points farther out West.
A one minute video. April 11, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2SMUBHZ_G0
NYC Subway HD 60fps: GE R37 Work Diesel 52 Shoves Garbage Train @ Jay Street - Metrotech
You may find this interesting, Gary: Railfan
Arthur posted:RSJB18 posted:Station platforms I guess. Doubt they haul it upstairs to the street. Have you ever seen how much trash a 100,000 + people generate in a day?
Approximate daily average: 6 million customers.
Yea I know I was way off but I did put a plus sign on the end
Dredging this up - saw trash being removed from the platform area inside the gates to the bottom of the steps leading to the street (outside the gates) at Cortlandt Street at 2:10a. So at least some trash doesn't leave by train!
David
I think it comes up here to a landfill in Fairport NY.
They are for MPC-era Lionel.
trainroomgary posted:A one minute video. April 11, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2SMUBHZ_G0
NYC Subway HD 60fps: GE R37 Work Diesel 52 Shoves Garbage Train @ Jay Street - Metrotech
You may find this interesting, Gary: Railfan
That's probably demolition debris from track replacement work (most track in tunnels uses concrete ballast, so it has to be jackhammered out to replace rail+ties). Trains collecting trash from station platforms are virtually always powered by electric box motors (R-127/R-134 "garbage motors"), with the occasional inclusion of a regular single-unit subway car if air-conditioning is needed for the crew.
Consists are always arranged as a powered unit on each end bracketing three modified flatcars equipped with subway couplers (to carry control signals between the powered cars)
---PCJ
