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Holiday Nostalgia Rides will run every Sunday in December.<\/p>\n
Photo courtesy of the New York City Transit Museum<\/p>\n
\t\t Search our comprehensive guide to things to do in Brooklyn<\/a> for more local events \u2014 or submit your own<\/a>!<\/p>\n The New York Transit Museum and the\u00a0MTA<\/a>\u00a0are bringing back their cheerful annual tradition of\u00a0Holiday Nostalgia Rides<\/a>\u00a0next month.<\/p>\n New Yorkers will step back in time when they ride the Downtown Brooklyn museum\u2019s historic railcar fleet<\/a> that dates back to the 1930s. The train of cars will run between the Lower East Side\u2019s 2nd Avenue-Houston Street on the uptown F line and 96th Street-2nd Avenue on the Q line every Sunday in December, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n Vintage train riders will explore the past as they ride the Holiday Nostalgia train, which consists of eight cars from the Depression era that ran along lettered lines through the late 1970s.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The vintage Independent Subway System cars were built for the first subway company operated by the City of New York. Modern for their time, the R1\/9s complemented the IND\u2019s Depression-era Art Deco aesthetic. With rattan seats, paddle ceiling fans, incandescent light bulbs, roll signs, and period advertisements, these are the very cars that inspired Billy Strayhorn\u2019s song, \u201cTake the A Train.\u201d<\/p>\n Ticket prices to ride the train are $2.90 each, the price of a subway ride.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s something magical about seeing our vintage subway cars filled with holiday cheer,\u201d Regina Shepherd, acting director of the New York Transit Museum, said. \u201cThe Holiday Nostalgia Train connects riders to the joy of New York\u2019s past and reminds us why the city\u2019s transit system remains at the heart of our shared stories.\u201d<\/p>\n When they are not in use during the holiday season, the vintage cars remain preserved in the New York Transit Museum\u2019s collection.\n<\/p>\n New Yorkers who want to keep their holiday fun on track this year, the\u00a0Holiday Train Show at Grand Central Terminal<\/a>\u00a0will open on Nov. 13.\u00a0The transit museum\u2019s beloved display will feature Lionel model trains zipping through a 34-foot miniature New York City, complete with a model of Grand Central Terminal at its heart.<\/p>\n