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Jul 25, 2009

Personally, I Prefer Asteroids

What you’re looking at above is a video of “what a train controller sees when a train is operating through a circuit that’s been turned off for maintenance,” according to WTOP. Now, perhaps it’s just me, but: isn’t it indicative of the current state of Metro that their train monitoring system is apparently running off an old Atari 2600? Can WMATA operators get Pitfall on that thing after the system closes for the night?

 
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