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Lionel’s CEO and President, Jerry Calabrese, holding up the motor car of the R-27 subway train, at the opening of the Holiday Train Show.
As we mentioned yesterday, the MTA's Transit Museum Annex opened its annual Holiday Train Show-- and this year there are the first-ever MTA-licensed NYC Subway Lionel Train Cars along with the recently released Metro-North Commuter Lionel Trains. A press release from Lionel Trains explains how the model subway train cars are extremely detailed:
"The R-27 Subway Car was first put into service by the MTA in 1960 and continued to serve New York City riders into the early 1990s. Lionel has created an exact replica of these trains all the way down to the kale green enamel finish, rooftop rivets and even the destination boards on the exterior of the train cars, along with opening doors and authentic subway sounds!"The NY Times wrote, "Lionel sent a sound engineer to record noise in Brooklyn subway tunnels and on modern subways. That noise is played back as the four-car train makes its rounds."
The Lionel R-27 four-car set retails for $699.99; the Lionel Metro-North M-7 four-car set is $279.99. But you can see both for free at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal Holiday Train Show. There are nine trains en route from Grand Central to the North Pole! More details here.
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Weird. My the looks of this photo, it seems as if he's holding an Uzi disguised as a toy train.
what would be really impressive would be authentic thoughts of subway riders - out loud!
"would it kill you to use some deodorant?"
"she looks pregnant, maybe i should give her my seat. nevermind, she'll find one eventually"
"you better not try and squeeze on this fucking car"
"if i only had a gun"
you know, the usual stuff.
Those are really neat but the price is really high. If our layout was O scale (we run HO), I guess I'd have to shell out the money for these. It's amazing that there isn't a subway-inspired set. I think Marklin once had one, btu that was a while ago.
haha wow 2 days of coverage for this? i am so excited!!
my dad was operating this yesterday @ the transit museum & was in the ny times article!
neil young is actually part owner of the company as well in case anyone is interested. apparently neil is an engineering/electrical genius.
buy this train or at least go look at it in the transit museum!!
now years of my dad torturing us with this stuff has paid off i guess! ha!
I guess none of you watched NY1 this morning. The train is close to $700 dollars because some of the proceeds are going to help the 'troubled' MTA (under the guise of licensing fees). Slimy Sander gave a little speech about it.
oh man!! i am so mad i missed it i wanted to tape it!! :(
They even have a little machine that spits out Metrocards that gyp you 2 fares.
Well peanut100, you are in luck:
http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?ArID=89584
S R -- thank you for finding that for me!!!