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Posts Tagged ‘old subway cars’
AMMO Over a KEL & MIN Car- Then the digital cleanup – More from the archive of Henry Chalfant – Coming to a dvd soon!!!
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008OLD SCHOOL TRIANS
Thursday, April 10th, 2008Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
[Via:NYTimes.com]
A New York City subway car being added to an artificial reef off the coast of Delaware. The reef’s success has led to crowding for marine life and fishermen
SLAUGHTER BEACH, Del. — Sixteen nautical miles from the Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater, a building boom is under way at the Red Bird Reef.
One by one, a machine operator has been shoving hundreds of retired New York City subway cars off a barge, continuing the transformation of a barren stretch of ocean floor into a bountiful oasis, carpeted in sea grasses, walled thick with blue mussels and sponges, and teeming with black sea bass and tautog.
“They’re basically luxury condominiums for fish,” Jeff Tinsman, artificial reef program manager for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said as one of 48 of the 19-ton retirees from New York City sank toward the 666 already on the ocean floor.[Read More]
