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Old Mar 6, 2012 | 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by YVR Cockroach
I don't think you can do too much about steel on steel. Have a relatively-new (in it's 28th year or so now) light rail system in my town and any curve it goes around can be loud. I don't think the NYC subway is appreciably louder than some of the London Underground lines FWIW.
Skytrain has linear motors, which make most of the noise.
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