Ghost Stations of the Paris Metro
You know what? I&#x27;m sometimes wondering why I can&#x27;t see any picture of something I&#x27;ve experienced while I traveled by train from Bonn, Germany to Madrid, Spain to visit my best buddy, who moved away to there with his parents. For my summer holidays, about 1980 or so. Alone. For two days on the trains! Yay!<p>What I will never forget was while I had to take the Metro in Paris to switch from one terminal station to another, the Metro rode trough some subterran depot&#x2F;switching yard, which was a large rectangular hall, at least several 100 meters long, almost 100 wide, and 10s of meters high. Dark. Except for the signals, warning-lights, whatever in orange, white, yellow, red, green, blue lining all tracks and the ramps going up and down into and out of it. I&#x27;ll never forget that, because it was so unexpected. Almost like the glide-path indicators during night approaching large airports, as seen from the cockpit. But below the ground. And not old and grimy at all. Modern, light concrete. Really very &#x27;spacy&#x27;.<p>Maybe because it would be unwise to go there, because not abandoned? Anyways, at the times I rode through there it was empty, no other trains at all. Just the blank tracks and switches reflecting all those colored lights and signals.<p>I really wonder what and where exactly that was.