| ThurgreedMarshall |
10-28-2013 04:52 PM |
Re: school tours
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
(Post 483751)
I was visualizing a center platform that went to the side of the car, but they're thinner?
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I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Or maybe you don't understand what I'm saying.
Subway platforms are longer than the length of the train. If you have arrived on the platform and the doors to the train have just closed, you have a small amount of time in which you can jump between cars on trains that look like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Comparison.JPG
If you look closely, there are two lines of chains. You have to grab hold of the bars above the first line of chains, jump over those chains and land with one foot on each train. Then, you have to unhook the second line of chains in order to access the doors that lead to the actual train car. Sometimes those doors are locked, so that people can't walk from one car to another. This leaves you in the position of riding to the next stop between cars and then having to hop out like you hopped in to go through the normal doors. See below (although this type of car is very old, you get the idea):
http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncsta...0ede3.jpg?ve=1
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TM
etc top photo to a link because of the margin issue.
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