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A subway motorman survived a terrifying explosion when he removed a garbage can from the tracks that has been tossed by a group of notorious subway punks, transit sources said.

The 6 train hit the front of the can about 5:50 a.m. Sunday at the Cypress Avenue stop in the Bronx, sources said.

The motorman climbed down to the rails and moved the can out with a third rail paddle.

The can then rolled onto the third rail, creating a series of explosions. “This showered him in sparks, but didn’t electrocute him,” a transit source said.

One subway rider posted on Facebook that it was a crazy scene. “We hit a garbage can that was set on fire,” wrote user TY’z OnEverything. “And thrown in2 da tracks.. smh. shit was krazy!!!”

The train operator then gets back up on the platform with the burnt garbage can, which a rider captures on video.

“He wasn’t injured,” said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz. “We’re working with NYPD to investigate.”

A group of transit-obsessed punks who wreak havoc on the rails that call themselves the ‘subway conquestors’ tossed the can onto the tracks, the You Tube video says.

One ‘conquestor,’ 16-year-old Keyshawn Brown, was arrested in April for causing a small explosion when he allegedly ripped a metal sign box from an A train and tossed it onto the tracks at the Nostrand Avenue station.

When a C train went over it, there was a loud boom and heavy smoke began pouring out.

Brown, who is the son of an MTA conductor, was charged with reckless endangerment, arson, and criminal mischief, according to authorities.

A video was also posted Sunday on Facebook that showed a teen who trespassed in the back of a moving train and hitting the controls that open and close subway doors.

However, he did not have the key that would activate the controls, so he is only able to blast the horn.

It was not clear what subway line it was, but the video shows an R160 car used on lines like the E, F, J, and M.

It was not clear how the punk got inside.

If it was an older car, he could have broken into the cab if the lock is weak, or the door may have been left unlocked. He also could have gone in through an outside door on the end of the train if it was unlocked, climbed onto the back of the train, and opened the door from there, a transit source said.