(Source: New York Daily News, November 2, 2012)
NEW YORK — 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.
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