Six-car 'pump train' helps get subways back on track in wake of Sandy superstorm [Daily News]
Date: 02/11/2012
Beneath the streets of Manhattan, one of the MTA^s giant diesel-powered work trains is reclaiming the No. 1 subway line from the sea. The six-car ^pump train^ has made it to about 2,000 feet shy of the South Ferry station as of Thursday afternoon, its back car on muddy tracks, its nose plunged in about 4 feet of brackish water. Farther down the line, the water gets deeper and deeper, reaching all the way up to the tunnel^s ceiling as it nears the tip of Manhattan.
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