So-called MTA Nostalgia Holiday Trips have resumed this year after being put on hold due to the pandemic, according to the New York Museum of Transportation.
Holiday Nostalgia Rides has an updated route! The Train of Many Colors will only make EXPRESS stops on local platform 1 between Chambers St and 137th St – City College St stations on 4th, 11th and 18th December. Learn more about https://t.co/8tuKdyMcio. 📷 @alexmtzphotos pic.twitter.com/VPCNFdQBRu
— New York Museum of Transportation (@NYTransitMuseum) December 1, 2022
On this occasion it will be the ‘Train of Many Colors’ which will travel along the 1 line from the Chambers Street station to West 137th Street-City College, on various Sundays from 10:00 to 17:30
These “many colors” floats are part of the “Kingdom of the Red Birds” exhibit, a reference to the colorful floats introduced in the 1960s.
The trips started last Sunday and will continue for another three Sundays: 4, 11 and 18 December.
The Holiday Nostalgia Train will make stops on the local Line 1 platform between Chambers St and 137 St-City College:
Rooms St.
Calle 14
34 St-Penn Station (The train will stop at the local line platform 1).
Times Square-42 St
59 Circle of San Colombo
72S.
96 St.
125 St
137 St City College
TIMETABLES
The Holiday Nostalgia train leaves from the station Rooms St on line 1 at the following times:
10am
12:00 pm
2pm
4:00 pm
The Holiday Nostalgia train leaves from the station 137th St on line 1 to:
11 in the morning
1:00 pm
3pm
5pm
The Train of Many Colors features a selection of cars made in the 1960s: the R-33, R-33WF and R-36 cars. Featuring bird reds ‘Tartar Red’ and ‘Gunn Red’, Kale Green ‘Green Machines’, blue and silver ‘Platinum Mist’, and striking two-tone robin’s egg blue and cream ‘Bluebird’ colourways, the festive Holiday Nostalgia Train represents different eras in the history of the New York City subway.
