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We just got the word that a recent practice we’ve come to consider a grand holiday tradition will continue this year. That’s right, the Nostalgia Train will be making its weekly runs once again along the tracks of the NYC subway.
What’s the Nostalgia Train, you ask?
Every holiday season in recent years, the good folks at the NYC transit have run the Nostalgia Train, which is made up of subway cars that operated from the 1930s to the 1970s. Not only do train fans and nostalgia buffs get to experience subway cars from another era, but all the ads that line the upper walls of the cars are vintage ones, ranging from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Our first experience with the Nostalgia Train came some summers back, on a special express run from midtown to Coney Island, but it’s even more fun at holiday time.
The train runs on Sundays from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m., November 28 thru December 26, making the same stops as the M train, traveling from the 2nd Avenue station on the Lower East Side to Queens Plaza and back again.
In the past, we’ve donned vintage clothing for the occasion, and in a perfect world, everyone else would do the same—think how it would heighten the experience!
The photos in the slideshow are from a ride we took in December 2008. They’ll give you an idea, we hope, of what a delightful experience the Nostalgia Train is.
