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		flyGuyOnTheSly on Nov 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s ... I was riding the NYC Subway a year or two ago, when my brother in law asked me if I noticed anything strange about it. After thinking it through, I realized that I had ridden that exact same subway car in the past. It was a recommissioned car from Toronto! So they're obviously doing something to try and save money. It really made me question my own city's transit system as well. How could NYC make do with something that Toronto thought was worth getting rid of?

oasisbob on Nov 20, 2017 [–]

It could make sense if you consider different car series, in the same way that airliners will move between carriers depending on what kinds of fleets they want to run.

Or, old OEM parts.

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