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Subway Sounds? |
Travel Info Well, the NYC subway has its whole group of buskers and such, but on the subway itself, on the trains, when was that bleepy sound introduced when the doors are closing? its on some trains, but not on others. when did it first appear, on which train? ive always wanted to know. Travel Tips I would guess it was the 4,5,6 line since they were the first to have the most automatic features like the time, what station is next, automatic voice (who incidentally is Jessica Ettinger Gottesman of 1010 Wins) etc. Others I do know that there are a variety of such sounds, and i know that they can be heard on the older cars, even the ones that were made before the newest cars. The new ones have a cleaner, quicker, higher-pitched "bing-bing." The older ones are more like a "dooong-dooong." It's quickly become apparent that this is very difficult to explain via text. Suffice it to say, I'm not sure exactly when the first door-warning sounds were introduced. I'm a life long New Yorker and I gotta tell you that is one of the most unique questions about New Youk I ever read. I tried researching your question but the closest I got was to automated doors which were introduced in the 1930's nothing on the door closing sound. I seem to remember that in the early1960's when the now defunct 'redbird" cars starting running on the IRT the door closing sound appeared. |
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