The New Yorker, July 17 , 1926 P. 7We were outraged about subway strike and breaking of contracts entered into by employers and employed, but touched by protests of motormen and switchmen.
In one day of the life of a motorman there are 2667 curves, stop signals, switch crossings and potential rear-end collisions.
McGuinness had been asked to issue a statement about the IRA's Derry Brigade during the period of Operation Motorman, when the British army dismantled so-called "no go" areas of the city where barriers prevented the free movement of security forces.
When an L train finally arrived, they tried taking pictures of the motorman.
In the case of the motorman driving the DeKalb train, further tests determined there were no irregularities with the results.
The police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, said that moments later, Mr. Gelman pounded on the door of the motorman's compartment, identifying himself as a police officer and demanding entry.
He is the man who has built the eerily realistic mock-up of a motorman's cab from an old IND train in his extra bedroom.
I turned and looked into the keyhole of the motorman's tiny compartment and shouted to Adrienne that I could see "a man in there!" Suddenly, the door popped open and the motorman said, "Hey kid, you want to drive?" This was my moment to do what nobody I know to this day has ever done — drive a subway train.
Lou Brusati, the A line's superintendent, had come along that day for the ride, and as the train barreled through the tunnel, you could see him smile in the darkness of the motorman's cab.
He does not, like one buff in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, have a mock-up of a motorman's cab in his extra bedroom, supplemented with recorded sounds from the subway to make sitting in the cab more realistic.
