Long Train Runnin'
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I wanted to share a few photos from my visit to New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. It came highly recommended by a few members, and I agree with them its well worth a visit if you have some time in New York.
I don't think anyone wants to a full written report, so I will just share a few key points. I took the A train right from Penn Station to Jay St. From there its a 5 or 6 block walk to the museum. The neighborhood was fine IMHO, and I felt fine making the walk alone.
The museum is in the old Court St. station, and is entirely underground. Google Maps didn't relay that information to me, so I was a little taken surprised when I got to the location and there wasn't anything more then a set of typical subway entrance steps. I understand there is another entrance with an elevator somewhere. I descended into a subway station where there were a few security folks standing at the entrance who were very polite and greeted me with a smile. I bought my ticket from a women inside a classic NYC subway agents booth. Admission was only $5. I won't go into a display by display breakdown of whats inside instead offer up a few photos.
With anything you need to do a little rail fanning. ALP-46 leads 10 Alstom Multilevel commuter cars up the coastline to New York Penn Station
Jump into the museum. They had about 10 subway cars open for you to walk through. Luckily, I got there early, so I was able to be pretty much alone in the cars. When I left around noon it was crawling with young kids. This car is from the 1960s.
One unexpected surprise inside the subway cars were either original or recreations of the time periods advertising. For example in the car from the 60s you find this ad. Offering a 4.25% return on your money!
I liked this ad as well. "Almost a Kodak" The beginnings of personal photography.
They also had 2 cars from an MTA "Money Train" which they use to get money out of the stations and to a processing center. They said MTA processed over 2 billion dollars in currency in 2008.
After I visited the museum proper I rode the subways some more, and finally found myself on the Shuttle from the 42 St. Times Square Station to Grand Central Terminal. I walked into the main waiting area in GCT in time to catch one of the laser light shows in progress on the ceiling. I watched for a few moments and then visited the Transit museums annex located in the shuttle passageway. It was a zoo inside with a very large holiday train layout running inside. I looked around for a few moments then got a few t-shirts.
It was a nice day and I would highly recommend a visit to the museum in Brooklyn.
You can find the rest of my photos by clicking here I have captions for all the shots, but feel free to ask questions.
Thanks so much for reading!
I don't think anyone wants to a full written report, so I will just share a few key points. I took the A train right from Penn Station to Jay St. From there its a 5 or 6 block walk to the museum. The neighborhood was fine IMHO, and I felt fine making the walk alone.
The museum is in the old Court St. station, and is entirely underground. Google Maps didn't relay that information to me, so I was a little taken surprised when I got to the location and there wasn't anything more then a set of typical subway entrance steps. I understand there is another entrance with an elevator somewhere. I descended into a subway station where there were a few security folks standing at the entrance who were very polite and greeted me with a smile. I bought my ticket from a women inside a classic NYC subway agents booth. Admission was only $5. I won't go into a display by display breakdown of whats inside instead offer up a few photos.
With anything you need to do a little rail fanning. ALP-46 leads 10 Alstom Multilevel commuter cars up the coastline to New York Penn Station
Jump into the museum. They had about 10 subway cars open for you to walk through. Luckily, I got there early, so I was able to be pretty much alone in the cars. When I left around noon it was crawling with young kids. This car is from the 1960s.
One unexpected surprise inside the subway cars were either original or recreations of the time periods advertising. For example in the car from the 60s you find this ad. Offering a 4.25% return on your money!
I liked this ad as well. "Almost a Kodak" The beginnings of personal photography.
They also had 2 cars from an MTA "Money Train" which they use to get money out of the stations and to a processing center. They said MTA processed over 2 billion dollars in currency in 2008.
After I visited the museum proper I rode the subways some more, and finally found myself on the Shuttle from the 42 St. Times Square Station to Grand Central Terminal. I walked into the main waiting area in GCT in time to catch one of the laser light shows in progress on the ceiling. I watched for a few moments and then visited the Transit museums annex located in the shuttle passageway. It was a zoo inside with a very large holiday train layout running inside. I looked around for a few moments then got a few t-shirts.
It was a nice day and I would highly recommend a visit to the museum in Brooklyn.
You can find the rest of my photos by clicking here I have captions for all the shots, but feel free to ask questions.
Thanks so much for reading!
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