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NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Engineers have confirmed New York's No. 2 subway train plays the opening notes of a ballad from the musical "West Side Story" when the cars start moving.
The electronic whine sounds like the beginning of the song "Somewhere," The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Saturday.
It has to do with the operating system in the new cars which, if I'm not mistaken, involve hydraulics. Those would be the model R-142's running in the IRT, and the R-143's and R-160's in the BMT/IND. I know that the latter emit a whiny squeak when the trains begin to move--since I don't work in the IRT division, I was unaware of the West Side Story notes...but you have to admit, it's appropriate since the #2 is, in fact, a West Side line!
I always noticed that distinctive three-note "song" that the new cars play when they begin to move, but I know nothing about West Side Story, so I never made that particular connection.
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