stackyFACTSThat signature breeze you feel right before the train arrives isn't modern air conditioning. It is the piston effect. The train acts like a giant plunger in a tight tube, violently shoving thousands of cubic feet of sweaty, rat-scented tunnel air straight into your face.
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