All aboard! The vintage subway nostalgia train, featuring cars with rattan seats, incandescent light bulbs, paddle fans, old-time advertisements, and rolling rather than electronic signs, will be rolling through Manhattan every Sunday in December.<\/p>\n
The Holiday Nostalgia Trains are the last operating remnants of 1,700 subway cars of a fleet that first began operating during the 1930s. Today, the eight surviving cars are kept in operating condition by NYC Transit.<\/p>\n
And so, on Dec. 7, 14, 21, and 28, riders will have the opportunity to ride on the New York Transit Museum and MTA New York City\u2019s Holiday Nostalgia Train for just the price of a Metrocard or OMNY subway ride.<\/p>\n
You could make an entire day out of traveling between Second Avenue Station (at Houston Street) on the F line and 96th Street and Second Avenue on the Q line and back. Approximately a 40-minute ride in each direction, the sights, sounds, and smells are quite different from our normal subway rides. Your ride will be enhanced by ceiling fans, whistles (not horns like current trains) that announce each station arrival, and an enthusiastic cadre of Transit Museum volunteers and NYC Transit employees who negotiate the unusual equipment through busy subway lines, filled with regular scheduled Sunday subway trains.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s quite the balancing act.<\/p>\n
Preserved as part of the New York Transit Museum\u2019s collection, the eight vintage Independent Subway System (IND) cars on the train began to enter service on the Eighth Avenue line (today\u2019s A\/C\/E) in 1932 and ran until 1977, when they were sidelined for newer equipment. Once the pride of the first subway company operated by the City of New York, the R1\/9s used on the train evoke the IND\u2019s Depression-era Art Deco aesthetic. Of special note, car 1575 runs in the middle of the train and was rebuilt from its original appearance in 1946. It became a testbed subway car with new interior and cosmetic features, and looks quite different from the rest of the train cars.<\/p>\n
The Holiday Nostalgia Train equipment that you will ride in are the last operating remnants of 1,700 subway cars of that fleet, kept in operating condition by NYC Transit.<\/p>\n
This year, the Train will operate on December Sundays, from Second Avenue \u2013 Houston Street on the uptown F line in Lower Manhattan at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. The return trips from 96th Street \u2013 Second Avenue on the Q line will be at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Holiday Nostalgia Trains will stop in both directions at Second Avenue \u2013 Houston Street (F); Broadway \u2013 Lafayette Street (D, 6); West 4th Street \u2013 Washington Square (A\/C\/E, D\/F); 34th Street \u2013 Herald Square (D\/F, N\/Q\/R); 42nd Street \u2013 Bryant Park (A\/C\/E, D\/F, N\/Q\/R, S, 7); 47th \u2013 50th Streets \u2013 Rockefeller Center (D\/F); 57th Street \u2013 Sixth Avenue (F); Lexington Avenue \u2013 63rd Street (F, Q); 72nd Street \u2013 Second Avenue (Q); 86th Street \u2013 Second Avenue (Q); and 96th Street \u2013 Second Avenue (Q) stations.<\/p>\n
Passengers can board the train at any of the stations.<\/p>\n
Accessible stations along the route include Broadway \u2013 Lafayette Street (D, 6); West 4th Street \u2013 Washington Square (A\/C\/E, D\/F); 34th Street \u2013 Herald Square (D\/F, N\/Q\/R); 47th \u2013 50th Streets \u2013 Rockefeller Center (D\/F); Lexington Avenue \u2013 63rd Street (F, Q); 72nd Street \u2013 Second Avenue (Q); 86th Street \u2013 SecondAvenue (Q); and 96th Street \u2013 Second Avenue (Q).<\/p>\n
Please note for stops between Second Avenue \u2013Houston Street and Lexington Avenue\u201363rd Street, board on the F-line platform. Stops between Lexington Avenue \u2013 63rd Street and 96th Street \u2013 Second Avenue, board on the Q-line platform.<\/p>\n
Like other octogenarians, timing, routes, and equipment of the train are subject to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All aboard! The vintage subway nostalgia train, featuring cars with rattan seats, incandescent light bulbs, paddle fans, old-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,18464],"class_list":["post-53459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nostalgia-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}