Old subway cars are once again rolling under the streets of New York City. Some R-1 models from the 1930s now form the “Nostalgia Train” running for the holidays
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/12/17/nostalgia.train/index.html#cnnSTCText
This is a link to the video:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/12/17/nostalgia.train/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
I remember the feel of those old wicker seats.
That’s a cool link! Thanks!
Isn’t that the model Life Like had out a couple years ago?
It makes the model more interesting to see the prototype in action.
Eric
Being born and raised in NYC, I remember taking those older trains for the 2 hour trek to Brighton Beach to visit the grandparents.
Thanks for the link Mr. B.
BTW, those fans didn’t work all that well as I recall when there was a full car…[:)]
The subway on my layout has Lifelike R-17s.
I grew up riding those cars. BOY, does that bring back memories!!!.
I remember those old wicker seats too. I also remember some other things about those old trains though I never took the V line. Most of my memories deal with taking the trains to Coney Island or Brighton Beach.
I particularly hated the Brighton Beach line since the trains had these things between the cars and if you were unfortunate enough to get caught in them when train made a turn you could have been in real trouble because once you were between cars you were stuck with no way out.
Trains with wicker seats in them wouldn’t last 2 seconds in todays world before they were either cut up or marked up with all sorts of gunk. And the old padded seats were often cut to shreds by whom I do not know but I can imagine.
Irv
I remember the pattern left on my legs - all boys wore shorts from Memorial Day to Labor day!! (And they didn’t hang below our but t s!!!)[:O]
Ditto, in aces and spades!
BTW, these are the old IND cars. The Life-Like models are of 1950s-era IRT cars - shorter, only three doors, used on different routes.
Chuck (native New Yorker modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)