Train To The Past

From NYC Transit

NYC Transit offered some folks heading to the Bronx for tonight's Yankees' ALDS playoff game a ride on a four-car Nostalgia Train, which originally began service in 1917 (they were retired in the 1960s). If you missed it today and are heading to Friday's game, keep this in mind, another "Nostalgia Special" will depart 42nd Street-Grand Central at 3:45 p.m. (it makes "all express stops on the Lexington Avenue Line and arriving at 161st Street-Yankee Stadium about 35 minutes later").

NYC Transit adds, "The Lo-V subway cars served customers for more than five decades before they were retired in the 1960s and currently serve as a splendid illustration of just how far rapid transit car design and technology have advanced over the past 100 years." And if you can't make it on a Nostalgia Train, visit the Transit Museum.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 7, 2009 6:36 PM

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bklynbagel

so awesome! i think i might have to duck out of work for an hour to ride this for a stop then turn around.

potsmoker

spend billions on new trains, then incovenience everyone else in the name of nostalgia by running old trains to a billion dollar stadium.

ill be "on board" when the yankees finish building & reopening the mullalay park & pool which the local residents lost to build the new stadium, then ill be bitter and pissed about something else.

until the world turns upside down and teachers millions and live in mansions while baseball players get paid minimum wage and live in roach infested studios, ill be bitter.

dreamking

Seriously, guys? Who stole your banky and pacifier that you're still bitter and pissed with the world? One of the reasons this city is so awesome is because of things like this. Stuff like this, I consider my significant city tax dollars well-spent.

potsmoker

the nostalgia train prob causes other problems and delays for other riders?

photo opportunities, slower service and delays for real express trains and local tracks.

MTA http://tripplanner.mta.info/

says it takes 18 minutes express.

from 42nd -grandcentral,

next its 59th, 86, 125, 149,

161-yankee stadium

why does that take thirty-five minutes unless your cascading delays and inconveniences to other riders.

goodcow

What's the point of this?

It can't be cost effective and then you have to worry about vandalism.

zodak

wtf!? who is going to be on that train at 3:45 on a weekday? unemployed losers & teenagers??

Mr Mel

I miss that shuttle that went from 161st St or 167th St and Jerome Ave to the Polo Grounds, 155th St & 8th Ave. On game days it had 4 cars, the rest of the time just 2.

Quenepa

If you want the same experience (slow train, short 4 car train, there is only one and it's always on the other side going the other way, shortened stops) just take the G train