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New York has always been associated with the subway ever since its early days. These subway systems have grown over time and the technology has been improved. One generation of these subway cars was known as the Redbirds. The subway cars were known as redbirds for their color and were built by the American Car & Foundry Company and the St. Louis Car Company. New York has had the problem of what to do with this abundance of subway cars. Usually, each car is stripped and eligible pieces are sold as scrap, which costs around $16,000, even after scrap sales. In the recycled reef process, each car is stripped down of all plastics, tanks, degradable materials, wheels, wires, seats, doors, light bulbs, etc., drained of oil and then scrubbed and cleaned to avoid any kind of water contamination. Then the train shells are loaded onto barges and shipped to their various destinations along the east coast. This whole process costs about $9,500 per car, that's $6,500 dollars left, and...

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Title: Redbirds
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