Friday, May 28, 2010

Where Subways Will Ride...Inside the 2nd Avenue Subway - msnbc - Rachel Maddow

To close out Geek Week, Rachel Maddow took a trip below New York City's Second Avenue to see the site where the new Second Avenue subway tunnels will be drilled...Seeing the boring machine and it's control panel is truly fascinating...

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Here is a subterranean slideshow from The Rachel Maddow Show's Flickr photostream...



Now here's a video of the Independent Rapid Transit (IRT) Third Avenue El line which was decommissioned and turned into scrap metal in 1955...It used to run up and down Manhattan until the mid-1950's, and was scheduled to be replaced by the Second Avenue subway...