No Word Yet On The Battery-Seller Lasso Event

The International Rail Rodeo comes to the Coney Island rail yards this weekend:

It’ll be hand-to-hand combat — at the controls of trains — at the Coney Island rail yard this weekend.

That’s when the world’s finest subway conductors and train operators will be competing against each other in the cutthroat annual contest known as the International Rail Rodeo.

The event pits transit workers from 18 cities against each other in tests of skills and wits. Events include subway driving, maintenance, safety and customer service.

Although no one will lasso any trains Saturday, rodeo organizers say the competition has no shortage of cowboys

“There’s a lot of intimidation and trash-talking,” said Melanie Hazel, the chairwoman of the rodeo, which is sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association. “The competition is taken very, very seriously.”

But is there a Roger Toussaint angle here? Of course there is:

Meanwhile, transit-union boss Roger Toussaint may try to embarrass the MTA by launching some kind of protest outside, union sources said.