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Armored "money Metro train"?
Posted by: zimm ()
Date: October 11, 2013 07:57PM

Okay, maybe outside Fairfax, but weird enough to post. I was at Pentagon City Mall having some Chipotle because the food in the Pentagon sucks. I go down to the station waiting for a blue or yellow back and a train pulls up. It's dark inside, windows look like they're covered in condensation, so you can't see inside. It's at least 5-6 cars long. Signs say "no passengers". Sign board in the station just shows "------" for the train. And it stops on the platform. I figured it was a train going in for maintenance. As I tell my buddy, "looks like a Halloween train" and it's spooky, the door in front of me opens up and a suited up armed guard with what looked like an M-4 machine gun sticks his head out and is scanning the platform. A door opens and two people dart out of the shadows and run onto the train. Doors shut and off it goes.


I got back to the office and did some googling. Only reference I found was a blog from 2009 saying it was Metro's armored money train to get station money.

Anyone have the story?

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Posted by: German_the_Dean ()
Date: October 11, 2013 08:24PM

Its a decoy. The cash was in the bag that the bum sitting behind you was carrying.

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Posted by: Ford Big Block 12MPG ()
Date: October 11, 2013 08:50PM

What the fuck is..."METRO"?

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Posted by: MLBNati0nals ()
Date: October 11, 2013 09:07PM

No it wasn't a money train, stop dreaming.

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Posted by: XcNMy ()
Date: October 11, 2013 09:19PM

Ford Big Block 12MPG Wrote:
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> What the fuck is..."METRO"?

Based on expert analysis here on FXU, the "Metro" is supposedly a transportation device that ghetto types from DC and PGC use to travel from their homes to Springfield, VA, and prey upon shoppers and retailers at Springfield Mall.

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Re: Armored "money Metro train"?
Posted by: x6pTh ()
Date: October 11, 2013 09:31PM

Yes, there is a Metro "money train" that collects money from all of the stations. It does exist. You can find more info online somewhere... I read an article on it once. They're just collecting all the cash/coin fares that built up on the machines at that station. No different than a Brinks truck, but for collecting fare money from the stations.

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Posted by: Commuter ()
Date: October 11, 2013 10:19PM

It was the Obama family trying to sneak out of town since they did not want bad press for using a helicopter during the shutdown. Michelle needed to get to J Crew for the weekend sales.

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Re: Armored "money Metro train"?
Posted by: b74hP ()
Date: October 11, 2013 10:52PM

Yes, that was one of WMATA's "money trains", but no it was not armored. It's just a regular train with the lights turned off. It does, however, carry a number of well armed Metro Transit Police officers, one of whom you obviously saw.

Ride the system for awhile and you'll see them fairly often.

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Posted by: justincaseyouneedwarning ()
Date: October 12, 2013 12:10AM

yea if you take photos of it and publicize it's timings and route

wells fargo will probably snap out out of the air before you can say "what?"

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Posted by: but why ()
Date: October 12, 2013 01:44AM

why not just use a Brinks truck?

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Posted by: German_the_Dean ()
Date: October 12, 2013 01:57AM

but why Wrote:
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> why not just use a Brinks truck?


Why pay a contractor (like BRINKS) when you have your own trains?

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Posted by: but why does your ass hurt? ()
Date: October 12, 2013 01:17PM

Also a Brinks guard can't arrest you after you shoot him. <- notice it's always the guard who gets shot and never the holdup guys?

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Re: Armored "money Metro train"?
Posted by: my ass ()
Date: October 12, 2013 02:03PM

my ass only hurts because of that thing your wife kept doing with her tongue

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Posted by: fjkdajdf ()
Date: October 12, 2013 02:15PM

Did you see Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lopez on the Money Train ??

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Posted by: VUcKp ()
Date: October 13, 2013 01:25AM

People all over the world!


Join in!

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Posted by: Urban Dictionary ()
Date: October 13, 2013 05:59PM

Metro: Previously a modern heavy rail system designed to bring white collar professionals and government employees from the nice suburban homes into government and contractor jobs in and around D.C.

Over time, the system was expanded into less desirable areas, leading to overcrowding, increased crime, and poor service as the system could not compete with the demand.

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Re: Armored "money Metro train"?
Date: October 13, 2013 06:46PM

Hey, ricky, there really is a money train. A real money metal train. It's a lock. The money train collects cash from Metro stations on unannounced frequencies.

Relax, donkey dick. You won't find the money metal train except by accident, rick.

I am Mister Seven. I am money. Borgata, Borgata, Borgata.

I live in a money metal mouse. It's a show.

Borgata.

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Posted by: Bruce the hugger ()
Date: October 13, 2013 11:02PM

The king of ashburn is at the helm of the Money Metal Train..Don't sleep on it ..rickey....YEEAAHHH..
Hamburger..

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Re: Armored "money Metro train"?
Posted by: Deep Rider ()
Date: October 14, 2013 01:29PM

That's not a "money train." For years the government has transporting aliens from Area 51 to the White House and a secret Pentagon bunker.

Probably a test run for the new laboratory never Sunset Hills Rd in Reston code named "Silver Fox 1."

You can tell the train because they have just "-------"

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Posted by: DC MOok ()
Date: February 22, 2017 09:30AM

Its NEVER a bag of money

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Posted by: getitright ()
Date: February 22, 2017 09:37AM

The M4 is not a machine gun.

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Posted by: Lottery Loser ()
Date: February 22, 2017 10:02AM

DC MOok Wrote:
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> Its NEVER a bag of money


The money is in secured push carts, about the size of a shopping cart at Safeway. They push the carts onto the train car down the center aisle and move on to next station to repeat.

Two Metro Police step out of the train on the platform to observe as the carts are pushed on. Only the train car doors that is recieving the carts actually opens, and it is done manually.

The carts are secured and big and heavy. No way could you steal one.

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Posted by: M4 ()
Date: February 22, 2017 10:25AM

getitright Wrote:
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> The M4 is not a machine gun.

Yes it is. Full auto = machine gun. Even at 3 round burst, I think it qualifies.

Bag of money guy, good job bumping a 4 year old post

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Posted by: Bout Time ()
Date: February 22, 2017 11:17AM

M4 Wrote:
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> getitright Wrote:
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> > The M4 is not a machine gun.
>
> Yes it is. Full auto = machine gun. Even at 3
> round burst, I think it qualifies.
>
> Bag of money guy, good job bumping a 4 year old
> post

Thank you, can finally go buy my gun now, been waiting for someone to clear this up in this thread.

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Re: Armored "money Metro train"?
Posted by: FdwYF ()
Date: February 22, 2017 12:41PM

it's 1st class coach - protects well mannered people from metro staff and loiterers

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Posted by: NH7Ky ()
Date: February 22, 2017 12:43PM

zimm Wrote:
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> Okay, maybe outside Fairfax, but weird enough to
> post. I was at Pentagon City Mall having some
> Chipotle because the food in the Pentagon sucks.
> I go down to the station waiting for a blue or
> yellow back and a train pulls up. It's dark
> inside, windows look like they're covered in
> condensation, so you can't see inside. It's at
> least 5-6 cars long. Signs say "no passengers".
> Sign board in the station just shows "------" for
> the train. And it stops on the platform. I
> figured it was a train going in for maintenance.
> As I tell my buddy, "looks like a Halloween train"
> and it's spooky, the door in front of me opens up
> and a suited up armed guard with what looked like
> an M-4 machine gun sticks his head out and is
> scanning the platform. A door opens and two
> people dart out of the shadows and run onto the
> train. Doors shut and off it goes.
>
>
> I got back to the office and did some googling.
> Only reference I found was a blog from 2009 saying
> it was Metro's armored money train to get station
> money.
>
> Anyone have the story?

should i make a long range gun and drop lead on wherever they are ?

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Posted by: 4YhxJ ()
Date: February 22, 2017 12:44PM

probably the 2 million in jewlery that canadian actress just had stolen

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Posted by: Vt7E7 ()
Date: February 22, 2017 12:48PM

obama-kenya-arms-deal-01-800x416.jpg

Obama sold their military transportation to Kenya. Can you blame them for wanting to get out more?

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Re: Armored "money Metro train"?
Posted by: WMATA Admnistrator ()
Date: February 22, 2017 07:47PM

STOP asking questions about the tactical inter-station transport system (T.I.T.S.) NOW.

TITS is top secret and classified. You will never get TITS. Don't try. You don't have the skills to even see TITS.

So fuck off and stop trying.

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Posted by: Mike O'Meara Show Fan ()
Date: February 23, 2017 04:04PM

One of the news shows the other night was supposed to do something on what the Metro booth niggers do all day. How'd it come out?

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Posted by: Metro booth workers ()
Date: February 23, 2017 10:04PM

Mike O'Meara Show Fan - saw the show the other night. Turns out, all they do in those booths is sit there and scarf down hush puppies and fries from Arthur Treacher's.

Great expose. Really brought to light some problems facing WMATA and the regional transit system.

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Posted by: Mike O'Meara Show Fan ()
Date: February 23, 2017 10:14PM

So niggers nigging it up? That sounds like a solvable problem. It's not sending people to Mars, it's cleaning obese baboons out of a subway.

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Posted by: Metro booth workers ()
Date: February 23, 2017 10:17PM

But they do it all while still managing not to spill those little paper baskets of fish and french fries (or sometimes hush puppies) and their coke from Arthur Treacher's. Very impressive, if you as me.

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Posted by: Matt Lesko's personal train ()
Date: February 23, 2017 11:38PM

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Posted by: GEhYb ()
Date: February 24, 2017 12:42AM

If McDonald's can change from human servers to automated robotic systems, I am sure there is a way to convert the metro system to do the same. Why pay someone to sleep and eat all day in a booth and grouse when someone wakes them up of asks a stupid question at them?

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Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: February 24, 2017 10:09AM

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https://ggwash.org/view/39840/ask-ggw-that-weird-looking-metro-car-is-probably-full-of-money





Ride Metro long enough and you’ll see plenty of non-passenger carrying vehicles on the rails, from The Pickle, to maintenance vehicles, to… The Money Train! Reader Sarah writes in with a question about what, exactly, that is.

Sarah writes,


“I was waiting for a Silver, Orange, or Blue train at Federal Center SW around noon yesterday, and a no passenger train went through. The first car was very bizarre looking and I’m almost certain was #8003. What is this mystery car?”


Our Metro-expert-in-chief, Matt Johnson, had the answer.

Cars 8000, 8001, 8002, and 8003 (formerly 1010, 1011, 1044, and 1045) are the “money train” cars.

WMATA collects coins and bills from the ticket vending machines (TVMs) around the system using railcars modified for that purpose. Throughout the day, Metro employees escorted by MTPD officers use special carts to empty fare revenue from the TVMs and store the carts in rooms in the station until time to put them aboard the Money Train. The Money Train makes two sweeps through the system each weekday.

There are two pairs of Money Train cars. It is not clear to me whether they use both each day or whether they rotate them. Regardless, two Money Train cars are paired with two regular cars and run through the system as a 4-car train. The Money Train cars are used for the carts. The other cars are just backup power and to make sure the train doesn’t get caught in any third rail gaps longer than 150 feet.

The Money Train cars are specially modified in a few ways. First, they have extra tinted windows, making it nearly impossible to see inside. All seats have been removed to make way for the carts. The floors are also reinforced to hold the weight of the carts. They also apparently have shotgun racks for MTPD officers to defend the train as necessary. On the exterior of the train, the cars still have plastic mylar rollsigns (as opposed to flipdot (1000 & 4000) or LED (2/3000, 5000, 6000, 7000) signs on revenue cars).

These four cars will be the last 1000 cars running in the system for regular service, though without passengers. Metro’s plans call for replacing the Money Train cars with specially-built cars as part of the 8000-series order, which will likely be executed in the early 2020s. That order will replace the Money Train cars, the 2/3000 cars, and may be used to expand the fleet size beyond 50% 8-car operation.

Have a question? We regularly pose reader questions to the Greater Greater Washington contributors, and post appropriate parts of the discussion. Send us you questions by email to ask@ggwash.org. We can’t answer every question, but we’re most likely to answer fact-based informational questions like the one in this post!



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Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: February 24, 2017 10:13AM


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https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/3lbt9c/8000_series_metro_money_train_spotted_at_metro/






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8000 series Metro "Money Train" spotted at Metro Center
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John_Mason • 1y
What's the story behind the "Money Train"?

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vaxciliate • 1y
Metro uses special train cars to move cash (from ticket machines) around. The 8000 car has racks for cash carts. They have armed guards (which I did not have time to take a photo of). It's like an armored car, but a train car. The rest of the train was empty (no passengers), though as you can see there were bags and computers on board.

There was a movie in the '90s about a fictional robbery of a similar train on the NYC Subway.

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dcd00dDC • 1y
The cars aren't armored. They've just been stripped of the standard interior and fitted with racks that the vaults are strapped down to.

http://imgur.com/izDYZ2B

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Pele2048NoVA Resident; Totally not a WMATA Worker • 1y
And they have that old school, "Doors Closing... Dee Doo" annunciator... AKA, My work phone ringtone.

Except for bosses. Then its "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats.

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SandBoxJohn • 1y
8000–8003 are formerly cars 1010-1011 and 1044-1045, they are based out of Alexandria Yard where WMATA has its Metrorail currency processing facility.

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spaceheatr • 1y
Yup. Super eerie to see the cops jump out wielding shotguns. Seen it a couple times.

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captainsmoothieRosedale • 1y
To me, it's the pace of movement that's startling. I've gotten used to seeing MPD/Metro cops carrying long guns and SMGs since 9/11, but to see a squad of them rushing somewhere is always a bit spooky. I fully understand why they don't want to dally with the cash-carts on the platform, but still.

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John_Mason • 1y
Really cool, thanks for the explanation!

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dmpastufAdams Morgan • 1y
Be interested in finding out how much cash vs overall revenue is done since metro opened. Wonder if that's available anywhere

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GrayAntarcticaAlexandria/FFX County • 1y
Metrorail recovers 76% of expenditures with revenue, Metrobus about 24%. For US heavy rail, Metrorail is 2nd only to Amtrak for operational cost recovery, as I recall.

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dmpastufAdams Morgan • 1y
Right in curious more about the physical change and cash vs debt and prepaid/transit benefit

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Date: February 24, 2017 10:29AM

Please Don't Point the Shotgun at Me






http://unsuckdcmetro.blogspot.com/2009/08/please-dont-point-shotgun-at-me.html






It's not a common sight, but Metro operates trains that solely collect and transport cold, hard cash. They are protected by heavily armed guards. If you've never seen one, or don't know about them, it can be somewhat startling when one pulls into a station. From reader Joseph:

About three weeks ago, I was trying to get on an Orange Line train for Vienna at Metro Center at about 10:30 p.m. As I was going down the escalator to the platform, a "no passengers" train pulled up. The doors opened, and to my bewilderment a uniformed man stepped out of the first car brandishing an enormous shotgun. Since he was holding it up, and I was elevated on the escalator, it was pointing directly at me.

I yelled out in shock, and he looked up and saw that he was pointing the gun at me, but he calmly and expressionlessly continued to while two other uniformed guys moved a box off the platform and onto the train.

Still eying me without emotion, he stepped back onto the train, and it left.

Prior to him stepping out, there was no announcement that any kind of police would be getting out. So I had no way of anticipating, right before I was threatened with a deadly weapon, that he wouldn't be a criminal or madman.

And yet he didn't hesitate to scare the shit out of me for no reason.

By the time it was all over, I realized that he was some kind of official, but still, it's inconsiderate.

Furthermore, this is America. Just because you work for Metro, it's not an excuse to act like the Stasi or something.

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Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: February 24, 2017 10:35AM

Old Money Train Platform






http://www.belowthecapital.org/metro/


When the Metrorail system opened in 1976, the only line, the red line, ran between Farragut North and Rhode Island Ave. The Transit Authority needed a way to collect the daily revenue and used a money train to accomplish this task. For whatever reason, they decided not to locate a revenue facility at the rail yard in Brentwood, which would seem to be a logical choice. The headquarters of the Transit Authority is located directly above the red line tracks between Chinatown/Gallery Place and Judiciary Square stations. There is a very small platform, amounting to no more than an emergency exit, located on the inbound side (toward Metro Center) of the red line tracks. On the other side of this door, a steep, narrow set of stairs leads to the basement-level of the headquarters building, known as the Jackson Graham Building ("JGB"). At the top of the stairs, a 90-degree left turn leads down a long hallway to the main, open section of the basement. Today, cameras, a heavy door and an intercom system are all that indicate the use of this hallway. However, you can only imagine the poor saps who had to haul bags of quarters up these stairs - it must have taken hours to unload the trains.

Best place to view this: last car of an inbound (toward Metro Center) train from Judiciary Square station, looking to the near-side tunnel wall. The platform is still lighted, but it is so small it goes by in a flash.

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