[HN Gopher] Repair shops where subway cars go for a makeover
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Repair shops where subway cars go for a makeover
Author : ianrahman
Score : 43 points
Date : 2024-03-03 14:49 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| sea-gold wrote:
| https://archive.ph/1KtNB
| jessriedel wrote:
| Alt:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20240303150044/https://www.nytim...
| mjevans wrote:
| Paywall loading at the scroll
| jessriedel wrote:
| Ugh yea. It at least shows the first few paragraphs and
| pictures for those of us on cloudfare who can't access
| archive.is
| freitzkriesler2 wrote:
| Oh hey, I know that place. That's Alstrom in Hornell NY!
| neilv wrote:
| I couldn't find a photo of this in the article:
|
| > _Attached to one component underneath that car -- out of sight
| to virtually everyone but the rats, once the train resumes
| service -- there was a round, black-and-white sticker. It
| featured a smiling cartoon face resembling Thomas the Tank
| Engine, and it proudly bore the words "Coney Island Overhaul
| Pneumatic Shop."_
| woodruffw wrote:
| > New York City has some of the oldest subway cars in the world
| -- some have been in service since the 1980s.
|
| If you count the SIR, some of the system's cars are over 50 years
| old[1]. The R46 is also approaching 50 and is still the standard
| trainset on the A/C and N/Q/W.
|
| (The MTA also ran R32s[2] until very recently, which were
| approaching 60.)
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R44_(New_York_City_Subway_car)
|
| [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R32_(New_York_City_Subway_car)
| banana_giraffe wrote:
| Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/nyregion/subway-
| repair-sh...
| neilv wrote:
| The photos show people doing their jobs skillfully and
| conscientiously.
|
| That makes sense, because it's safety-critical important
| infrastructure for an economic powerhouse city.
|
| But why don't we always see skill and conscientiousness in all
| the other jobs where that would be appropriate?
| hoten wrote:
| Are you asking why it isn't present, or why we don't see it/it
| isn't put on display? What areas do you have in mind?
| GuB-42 wrote:
| Many places that appear skillful and conscientious on camera
| and in newspaper articles are really not that much.
|
| Many companies offer a kind of tour to officials and
| journalists where they show what they want to show. Cleaning up
| what is visible, giving the right tasks to the right employees
| and generally hiding the mess. Journalists may be complicit,
| they have to if they want these pretty pictures. Essentially,
| that's an ad. Not saying it is the case here, but I know for a
| fact that it can happen.
| ilamont wrote:
| Because private companies in the United States have much more
| leeway to cut corners, _even in heavily regulated industries._
|
| Boeing spins off a manufacturing unit to save money and the FAA
| takes their word for quality control, with predictable results:
|
| _As part of the federal securities lawsuit, a Spirit employee
| allegedly told higher-ups about an "excessive amount of
| defects," later telling a colleague he "believed it was just a
| matter of time until a major defect escaped to a customer."
| According to the court filing, the company ignored the
| warnings._
|
| https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/boeing-subcontractor-sub...
|
| Blackstone-owned meatpacking cleaning company hires 15 year
| olds to clean slaughterhouses, with predictable results:
|
| _Blackstone-owned slaughterhouse cleaning company Packers
| Sanitation Services (PSSI) in February paid a $1.5 million US
| Department of Labor (DOL) fine for "oppressive child labor."
| DOL investigators found more than 100 children working in
| hazardous jobs, under illegal conditions, with multiple
| children suffering injuries._
|
| https://pestakeholder.org/news/large-investors-challenge-bla...
|
| Blackstone's CEO was paid a quarter BILLION dollars in 2022:
|
| https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
| beAbU wrote:
| Beautiful photography!
| simmonmt wrote:
| The photos are gorgeous. The first one, of the motor disassembly
| area, has a bridge crane (labeled M-23) with a _1-ton_ capacity??
| I didn 't realize bridge cranes that size went that low.
| dtgriscom wrote:
| I always right-click and "Open Image in New Tab"; you can see
| so much more than the Times makes available in the context of
| the article.
| jrockway wrote:
| Interesting point. I am sure the steel beam that is stenciled
| with "1 ton" can hold more than that, but the plasticky thing
| that's the actual lifting mechanism looks pretty hardware-store
| grade.
| Luc wrote:
| Photographer's book "Made in America":
| https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Christopher-Payne/dp/1419747398/
| analog31 wrote:
| Wow, I never expected "an electric motor and some wheels" to be
| so complex.
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