I was born and raised in NYC, I'm 69 years old, and I remember riding the majority of those subway cars. What a great throwback. Thanks for filming this.
I found this video to be extremely interesting since I've never been in a subway. Those care were really fascinating. Thanks Chris for sharing. Stay warm in this brutal cold
This is amazing to see all the old trains with the adverts. Good to see they have been restored and open for all to see and reminiscence how it was back all those years.
Chris, I remember those cars when I was a little boy, I moved to New Jersey from the Bronx, when I was 21/2 in 1944 but in the fifties I remember riding on trains like that. A lot of memories. Thanks, Frederick "Rik" Spector
I bet you have a lot of great stories. I would have loved to have seen the original Penn Station and the Singer Building (which was torn down in the late 60s). NYC is quite a city and I never grow tired of visiting.
I visited this museum in spring of 2022. Just loved it. As a person really into subways as well as history, it was right up my alley. I also visited the London Transport museum many years back and recommend it. The history of some of these systems is fascinating. I grew up in the Midwest in the 80’s and 90’s spending more time in Chicago, and have since still visited there a few times every year. The CTA has a complicated but interesting history too. Each year they usually bring out a vintage L car for a day and actually run in through the current system. They also do a “holiday” train, that they decorate up with lights and other directions, have music inside, and sometimes people in costumes giving kids candy.
Being an antique fan, It is amazing how the entire car changes the further back you go, yet, they retained the utilitarian "Handles" in all of them. Can only imagine what they smell like xD.
I do remember the low voltage car from 1917, They still had some of them running on the number 4 line back in early 1960's. I was very young but I do remember going into the train door which was a small area, then you walk through another opening to the seats.
I HAVE BEEN IN THIS MUSEUM, I BELIEVE AT LEAST TWICE, BACK IN THE EARLY 1990S!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NOT NATIVE TO NEW YORK CITY, AND I HAVE NOT BEEN THERE IN YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT I REMEMBER THIS PLACE REASONABLY WELL, INCLUDING SOME OF THESE CARS AND FIXTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS KIND OF THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND BY COINCIDENCE, I JUST READ ABOUT THE MALBONE DISASTER FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE THOSE NEW YORK CITY MEMORIES, AND LONG LIVE THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT MUSEUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I like about your channel is you keep things simple. No fancy effects. Love the places you show us. Places I will never see in person. Keep up the good work and God Bless.
Born and raised here n I’ve been to that museum since I was 4 till this day I go once n a blue moon but those trains are very original and I’m a transit enthusiast for nyc so Ik all of those cars by heart. There are modern subway cars but they move around here n there it’s cool ngl, and it’s a beautiful museum and there are 2 more locations in Manhattan the one in Grand Central and at Bowling Green.
As a teenager, I remember riding on these trains back in the '70s. I believe it might have been on the IND line. I find them so much more welcoming than the cold, present-day cars.
Not necessarily! The late 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, early 90’s, they weren’t so nice. I moved away in 2021. They’re back to their former use as a homeless shelter, haunt of violent criminals and filth.
In the spring and summer they run those cars on special trips out to the Rockaways or Coney Island. Most of those cars are still operational, and those museum tracks connects to the subway system.
That's awesome - looks huge! Does it have any facilities, like cafe, loos, gift shop? Even us, who have never been to NY would probably find it quite interesting to track around some of the more famous streets & locations. We see it in TV shows, but how much was real & how much in a studio?! Keep warm up there and safe - how is it at night? I've heard it's not as hectic as it used to be?
I remember riding these cars in the late 50’s into the 60’s. No, not the 1917 cars, but 1948, definitely! There was no AC, those dingy fans! Went to the Worlds Fair with my Dad and my brother. Both have passed away now.
I'm 63. I rode many of those cars as a teenager in the 1970's-1981. It was always a trip. Then in 1979 the Navy stationed me in the San Francisco area where I took the nice clean Bart subway. I always kept away from the edge. Son of Sam days. Still NY was fun then and entertainment was affordable. You couldn't pay me to go back now.
I well remember the Son of Sam back in 1976. NYC recorded 1,622 murders that year. Last year NYC recorded 378 murders. In 1976 the NYC population was 7.4 M. Today it is about 8.2M.
I grew up 70 miles SE of Dallas, and remember seeing the old street cars out in people's pastures - being used for storage. They eventually fell apart and rotted into the ground, I guess...
who can forget when the lights would flicker or go out as it crosseds the ties. i remeber the 7 redbirds well. and the wicker seats on the f to coney island in 1968
Yes it is in an unused subway station was abonded till 1976 when it was used for a bicentrnial exhibit, which was so populatr it became the transit museum.
I visited this museum about a year ago and me being a little overweight myself, all I could think about the iron maiden was: what did people do back in those times if they just didn't fit through? 😅
When you were over in England you should have gone to the National Railway Museum in York, North Yorkshire. Now they are old carriages and some Royal Family trains.
In 1964 we were jealous of the folks who lived on the "7" line , who got to ride those new blue cars.BTW those straw seats were taken out because punks were cutting them up with switch blades.
i would imagine even those early century cars were used deep into the sixties...i assume they were expensive at the time they were built and they used them until they were worn out and then sent to the bone yard for parts
The Iron Maiden turnstiles certainly prevented people jumping them, but they couldn’t use them today. People are too fat to fit. You’d have the FDNY using the Jaws of Life to extract all the obese! I do remember them at certain side exits in lower Manhattan and elevated lines in Brooklyn.
They dont need that many cars afew would do for the museum. Alot of homeless freezing ,dieing in the street .Most could be used for shelter .The funding for this is a waste of Tax payers dollars .
I was born and raised in NYC, I'm 69 years old, and I remember riding the majority of those subway cars. What a great throwback. Thanks for filming this.
My son & I watched a doc about the Redbirds
i remember riding in those cars with the wicker seats
I first came to NYC in 1974 and never realized there was a time that existed before then. I still have a lot to learn
I remember the straw seats as a 7 yr old in 1968.
I as well.
I found this video to be extremely interesting since I've never been in a subway. Those care were really fascinating. Thanks Chris for sharing. Stay warm in this brutal cold
Having grown up near Boston, I can assure you that this is far more interesting than trying to get somewhere on an active big city subway.
You feel the cool standing on those train platforms brrr🌬️
I'm almost 65 years old, and I can remember riding some of these trains back in the 60's when I was a child with my mother.
All those cars were restored, before they were placed in the museum. From time to time, the cars do come out for trips.
This is amazing to see all the old trains with the adverts. Good to see they have been restored and open for all to see and reminiscence how it was back all those years.
Those cars are so cool. I love the old advertisements 😮
Brings back lots of memories.
From NYC. 1950-1968..Countless subway rides.. Miss Brooklyn and Manhattan 😢..Thanks Chris❤
Chris,
I remember those cars when I was a little boy, I moved to New Jersey from the Bronx, when I was 21/2 in 1944
but in the fifties I remember riding on trains like that.
A lot of memories.
Thanks,
Frederick "Rik" Spector
I bet you have a lot of great stories. I would have loved to have seen the original Penn Station and the Singer Building (which was torn down in the late 60s). NYC is quite a city and I never grow tired of visiting.
Ty!! How fun and peaceful this video is.
Transit Museum is awesome. Welcome to Brooklyn 👏
How awesome is that. Thanks for the tour Chris
This was as so cool and interesting. Love your always -great videography and narration. Thanks for this content, Chris. Try to stay warm
Great trip down memory lane. Amazing an entire world built underground at turn of last century.!! This vid was a gem Chris. 3 👍👍👍up.
Maybe some day the subway will be that peaceful again.
never again. this was back when the majority of people that rode the subway were white
I absolutely love your video mobile instinct. Thank you so much. That was amazing
Very cool. I love finding old stuff and restoring them. Would love to check out this museum.
I visited this museum in spring of 2022. Just loved it. As a person really into subways as well as history, it was right up my alley. I also visited the London Transport museum many years back and recommend it. The history of some of these systems is fascinating. I grew up in the Midwest in the 80’s and 90’s spending more time in Chicago, and have since still visited there a few times every year. The CTA has a complicated but interesting history too. Each year they usually bring out a vintage L car for a day and actually run in through the current system. They also do a “holiday” train, that they decorate up with lights and other directions, have music inside, and sometimes people in costumes giving kids candy.
Being an antique fan, It is amazing how the entire car changes the further back you go, yet, they retained the utilitarian "Handles" in all of them. Can only imagine what they smell like xD.
I can!
They probably smell much nicer now than when they were in service
Very interesting place. The people that came and went in thoses cars. A trip down memory train lol. Thanks for sharing
That's a cool museum with a lot of nice old cars!
5:40 It's called "wicker" (i.e., not "tweed")
Nice little tour. 🚆👍
I do remember the low voltage car from 1917, They still had some of them running on the number 4 line back in early 1960's. I was very young but I do remember going into the train door which was a small area, then you walk through another opening to the seats.
I rode subway cars just like this with”basket weave” seats to high school in 1968. I must get down to Court St. soon !!
I HAVE BEEN IN THIS MUSEUM, I BELIEVE AT LEAST TWICE, BACK IN THE EARLY 1990S!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NOT NATIVE TO NEW YORK CITY, AND I HAVE NOT BEEN THERE IN YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT I REMEMBER THIS PLACE REASONABLY WELL, INCLUDING SOME OF THESE CARS AND FIXTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS KIND OF THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND BY COINCIDENCE, I JUST READ ABOUT THE MALBONE DISASTER FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE THOSE NEW YORK CITY MEMORIES, AND LONG LIVE THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT MUSEUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I like about your channel is you keep things simple. No fancy effects. Love the places you show us. Places I will never see in person. Keep up the good work and God Bless.
Born and raised here n I’ve been to that museum since I was 4 till this day I go once n a blue moon but those trains are very original and I’m a transit enthusiast for nyc so Ik all of those cars by heart. There are modern subway cars but they move around here n there it’s cool ngl, and it’s a beautiful museum and there are 2 more locations in Manhattan the one in Grand Central and at Bowling Green.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this.
Visited this museum in October. It is very highly recommended!! Thanks for the video!!
If you want to watch a great NYC subway-themed movie, watch 'The French Connection' with Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider.
That car chase under the ELS
As a teenager, I remember riding on these trains back in the '70s. I believe it might have been on the IND line. I find them so much more welcoming than the cold, present-day cars.
Very cool. I will definitely have to see this if I ever visit NY
Everything was so nice back then
Not necessarily! The late 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, early 90’s, they weren’t so nice. I moved away in 2021. They’re back to their former use as a homeless shelter, haunt of violent criminals and filth.
The 1960s started the beginning of the end of that
In the spring and summer they run those cars on special trips out to the Rockaways or Coney Island. Most of those cars are still operational, and those museum tracks connects to the subway system.
That was so very cool. I loved it. I never heard of this museum before. Thanks so much.
A must visit.
Very cool Chris!!
"It was way louder then expected "
As the guy on the other side of the old turn style looks over at you. That was funny to see. 😂
Im going to visit this museum sometime soon.
thanks for sharing this! i’d totally visit this! come up all the way from south texas. 😀
What a cool place to check out!
Very interesting great video thank you always love your videos educational. Cheers!
Great Video !
nice i add this place for my next trip
Thanks, Chris!
Next time you are in Maine you gotta check out the Seashore Trolley Museum. They have super old trolleys from all over the world!
Welcome to NY, have fun. I just moved from Brooklyn to Queens if you want a tour.
a place you dont hear about, thanks Chris, great video!
I still miss the Redbird subway Trains on the 2&5 &4&7 line 😢
That's awesome - looks huge! Does it have any facilities, like cafe, loos, gift shop? Even us, who have never been to NY would probably find it quite interesting to track around some of the more famous streets & locations. We see it in TV shows, but how much was real & how much in a studio?! Keep warm up there and safe - how is it at night? I've heard it's not as hectic as it used to be?
I remember riding these cars in the late 50’s into the 60’s. No, not the 1917 cars, but 1948, definitely! There was no AC, those dingy fans! Went to the Worlds Fair with my Dad and my brother. Both have passed away now.
I'm 63. I rode many of those cars as a teenager in the 1970's-1981. It was always a trip. Then in 1979 the Navy stationed me in the San Francisco area where I took the nice clean Bart subway. I always kept away from the edge. Son of Sam days. Still NY was fun then and entertainment was affordable. You couldn't pay me to go back now.
I well remember the Son of Sam back in 1976. NYC recorded 1,622 murders that year. Last year NYC recorded 378 murders.
In 1976 the NYC population was 7.4 M. Today it is about 8.2M.
I grew up 70 miles SE of Dallas, and remember seeing the old street cars out in people's pastures - being used for storage. They eventually fell apart and rotted into the ground, I guess...
who can forget when the lights would flicker or go out as it crosseds the ties. i remeber the 7 redbirds well. and the wicker seats on the f to coney island in 1968
Awesome video.
Great ride!
Yes thank you 😊
Thanks chris
The destination signs light up when the reverser key is inserted into the reverser at the Train Operator’s cab in the forward facing position.
Thank you, Chris! ❤
Were any of these used in the TV series the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?
The woven seat covers would be called "Wicker" construction. Like a wicker basket.
Cool stuff
I remember those wicker seats.
Great Video, it looks like they put it in an old station? Or, is it above ground (in a railcar museum?)
Yes it is in an unused subway station was abonded till 1976 when it was used for a bicentrnial exhibit, which was so populatr it became the transit museum.
Glad they're not trashed!
In the early to mid 80s the PATH trains sometimes brought out the older cars 😂
I visited this museum about a year ago and me being a little overweight myself, all I could think about the iron maiden was: what did people do back in those times if they just didn't fit through? 😅
Happy new year Chris. All the best in 2025
When you were over in England you should have gone to the National Railway Museum in York, North Yorkshire. Now they are old carriages and some Royal Family trains.
I saw that! I ll be back and it's on my list now
Lots of movies and TV shows are filmed there
Very Cool!
The wicker seats were apparently a nightmare on women’s hose they had to sit on newspapers or they would snag. Can’t remember where I read that.
love them trains 0:01, 2:04, 3:04, 5:38
In 1964 we were jealous of the folks who lived on the "7" line , who got to ride those new blue cars.BTW those straw seats were taken out because punks were cutting them up with switch blades.
This was filmed within the past week? I'm shocked the R-32s are still in there and not the R1/R9s...
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The PA system and announcements were very hard to understand and the windows were functional.
There's a similar museum in Philadelphia foe the septa system.
i would imagine even those early century cars were used deep into the sixties...i assume they were expensive at the time they were built and they used them until they were worn out and then sent to the bone yard for parts
Strap hanger. The word for passengers.
The iron maidens need to come back.
Washington DC used to have vintage ones, and they got rid of them all.😢
Lotta ghosts in those cars.
The Iron Maiden turnstiles certainly prevented people jumping them, but they couldn’t use them today. People are too fat to fit. You’d have the FDNY using the Jaws of Life to extract all the obese! I do remember them at certain side exits in lower Manhattan and elevated lines in Brooklyn.
The country was a lot better then. There was respect.
I have a sudden craving for Viceroy cigarettes.
That's what wrong, I need a hat.
They dont need that many cars afew would do for the museum. Alot of homeless freezing ,dieing in the street .Most could be used for shelter .The funding for this is a waste of Tax payers dollars .
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You have not done your homework.
Very cool Chris 😊❤
Im going to visit this museum sometime soon.