A closer look
New York City transit authorities secretly operated an armored money train exclusively designed to quietly collect massive heaps of cash from subway station ticket booths in the middle of the night, heavily guarded by armed transit police. This subterranean steel vault on wheels ran completely undetected by the general public for several decades until it was slowly phased out due to the introduction of electronic metro cards that drastically reduced the amount of physical coins needed to ride. It sounds exactly like the perfect plot for a gritty nineties action movie heist, but unfortunately, the legendary train was mostly just filled with sticky nickels and gross pennies collected from angry commuters complaining endlessly about daily train delays
