Every year, the New York Transit Museum collaborates with the MTA to roll out vintage trains for an old-timey commute in celebration of the holiday magic in NYC. The longstanding tradition, dubbed Holiday Nostalgia Rides, returned last year after a two year hiatus, and it will be back once again this year on Saturday, December 2nd!
The museum will roll out eight vintage cars from the 1930s, featuring rattan seats, paddle ceiling fans, incandescent light bulbs, roll signs, and period advertisements. They entered service on the Eighth Avenue line (today’s A/C/E) in 1932 and ran until 1977.
The train will operate on Saturdays between Thanksgiving and New Year’s: Saturday, December 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th. The vintage train will run on the F line from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., stopping between 2nd Avenue on the uptown F line platform and 145th on the downtown D line platform.
It’ll only cost the $2.90 of a MetroCard swipe or OMNY tap.
This year the train will depart from 2nd Avenue on the uptown F line in lower Manhattan at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and from the 145th Street on the downtown D line at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m., all with plenty of stops in between for straphangers to hop on.
It will be making stops at these stations as it goes uptown:
- 2nd Avenue (F)
- Broadway-Lafayette Street (D/F/M)
- West 4th Street – Washington Square (D/F/M, A/C/E)
- 34th Street – Herald Square (D/F/M)
- 42nd Street – Bryant Park (D/F/M)
- 47th – 50th Streets – Rockefeller Center (D/F/M)
- 59th Street – Columbus Circle (A/C/D)
- 125th Street (A/C/D)
- 145th Street (A/C/D)
It will be making stops at these stations as it goes downtown:
- 145th Street (A/C/D)
- 125th Street (A/C/D)
- 59th Street – Columbus Circle (A/C/D)
- 7th Avenue (D/E)
- 47th – 50th Streets – Rockefeller Center (B/D)
- 42nd Street – Bryant Park (D/F/M)
- 34th Street – Herald Square (D/F)
- West 4th Street – Washington Square (A/C/E, D/F)
- Broadway-Lafayette Street (D/F/M)
- 2nd Avenue (F)
For more specifics on this year’s Holiday Nostalgia Rides schedule, check out their website here.