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More Great Links

• NYCSubway.org
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• Transit Toronto
• Metro Bits
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Sources

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• Britt, Robert Roy. "Subway Flooding: A Hidden and Neglected Risk." LiveScience. 1/14/2005 (2/23/2007) http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/ 050114_underground_floods.html
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• Discovery Channel Online. Subways in America. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/ subways/interactive/interactive.html
• Discovery: Extreme Engineering: American Subways. Episode 103, 2003.
• Dutemple, Lesley A. "The New York Subways." Lerner Publications Company. 2003
• Feinman, Mark S. "Early Rapid Transit in Brooklyn." (2/23/2007) http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/earlyrapidtransitinbrooklyn.html
• Hovey, Tamara. "Paris Underground." Orchard Books. 1991.
• McNeese, Tim. "The New York Subway System." Lucent Books. 1997.
• Metro Bits: World Metro List (2/23/2007) http://mic-ro.com/metro/metrolist.html
• Middleton, William D. "Metropolitan Railways: Rapid Transit in America." Indiana University Press. 2003.
• New York City Subway: Its Construction and Equipment (2/23/2007) http://www.nycsubway.org/articles/irtbook_index.html
• New York City Transit. Subways. (2/23/2007) http://www.mta.info/nyct/subway/index.html
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• Subway Signals: A Complete Guide (2/23/2007) http://www.nycsubway.org/tech/signals/
• The Associated Press. "Brazilian Subway Construction Site Turns into Crater, Swallowing Three Trucks." (2/23/2007) http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/12/ america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Subway-Crater.php
• Transit Toronto. "How Cut and Cover Worked in 1951." (2/23/2007) http://transit.toronto.on.ca/subway/5116.shtml
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (2/23/2007) http://www.wmata.com/