Metro Installing Debris Collectors on Its Tracks

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IF YOU'RE WAITING for a train at Union Station, Judiciary Square or Gallery Place-Chinatown, you might spot new small yellow contraptions on the track bed, like the one pictured here.

If you see a copy of the Examiner or City Paper — or, perhaps, Express — get pushed under the contraption by the magic forces of train-powered wind, the things are doing their job.

Metro today announced the deployment of debris collectors at select stations as part of a new program to try to reduce the number of track fires, often sparked by newspapers and similar items getting blown into tunnels and other problematic places.

If the program is successful, Metro says it could expand the use of the debris collectors to other parts of the rail system.

Photo courtesy Metro