New York Subway in Smoky Chaos

    April 8, 2005
    Hundreds of terrified subway riders were trapped on four trains for nearly two hours yesterday after a transformer exploded and filled the tunnels with smoke.
    N.Y. Post/Jim Alcorn
    HOLE LOT OF TROUBLE: MTA and Con Ed workers look over a subway grate near the burning 141st Street substation yesterday as clouds of smoke pour out.
    HOLE LOT OF TROUBLE: MTA and Con Ed workers look over a subway grate near the burning 141st Street substation yesterday as clouds of smoke pour out.

    April 8, 2005 -- Hundreds of terrified subway riders were trapped on four trains for nearly two hours yesterday after a transformer exploded and filled the tunnels with smoke, crippling the A, B, C and D lines for nearly four hours. The blaze at the power substation on St. Nicholas Avenue and West 141st Street started at 11:02 a.m. and knocked out power along the 600-volt third rail.

    The Transit Authority said four trains

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