The Brooklyn Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn, housed inside a former subway station. Where old trains go after they die to be preserved like mechanical mummies. Worth a trip if you're into vintage New Yorkia.
A 5443 Lo-V from 1924. Like riding in a German tank.
And interior.
A BMT 1407 dating from 1907. Classy ride, eh?
An R-11 #8013 prototype from 1949. Looks like the interior of an aqua-submarine. Note the portholes.
A BMT Q-Type #1612C. Originally from 1907, rebuilt in 1938. Paint job by the Crayola Factory, presumably.
Advertising was so quaintly earnest in those days.
The IRT R-15 from 1950, the first to contain an air conditioning unit.
Inside an IND R-7A / R-10 1575 from 1938.
29 October 2010
Brooklyn Transit Museum
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Oh Wow. I wish I could be there!!
I want to sit on the yellow seats; look out the portholes in the aqua-submarine; read the old advertisements; and most of all, visit the 1938 model, and pretend it's a time machine. Maybe hole up there, and write a novel.
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Such lovely photographs! Thank you for sharing. :)
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