Transit will send the Nostalgia Train up to Yankee Stadium this week as the ALCS continues. (Photo courtesy of NYC Transit)
As they did with the Yankees’ ALDS match-up against the Minnesota Twins, New York City Transit will be rolling out the Nostalgia Train three times this week as the Major League Baseball playoffs continue in New York. For railfans and Yankee fans looking to capture a bit of the past, Transit will send the Nostalgia Train from Grand Central up to the Bronx for the American League Championship Series tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday afternoon.
The four-car train is scheduled to leave an hour before game time. Tonight and tomorrow, the trains will depart Grand Central at approximately 7 p.m., and on Wednesday, the vintage subway will leave at 3 p.m. Transit says these cars were Interborough Rapid Transit company originals from 1917 and were in service through the early 1960s. Many Yankee fans can remember taking these subway cars up to the Bronx as kids decades ago.
Transit, meanwhile, took the time to remind Bronx-bound baseball fans that extra playoff-special trains will run along the 4 and B/D lines after the games are over. “For generations, Yankee fans of all ages have relied on the Jerome Avenue Line or Concourse Line to gethem to the Stadium during post-season play, and this playoff series is no different,” Thomas Prendergast, president of NYC Transit, said. “By taking the train, Yankee fans can save their energy for more important things, like rooting the Bombers on to victory.”
A Yankee victory or three sure do sound good to me.
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For an agency that’s trying to demonstrate that they’re pinching every penny they’ve got, I can’t see how this is anything but a bad idea
The cost of this is a rounding error by the standards of any medium-sized capital project.
Rounding error, perhaps, but so setting all office computers to print on both sides of the paper, or shutting off lights in conference rooms when they are empty, both of which I’m told are recent MTA policy. (Some of the recent service cuts don’t save all that much money, either) The point is: waste is still waste, and it does contribute to the bottom line.
If the agency demonstrated some financial restraint and still came up short, perhaps they’d earn some sympathy from the politicians who fund it, or at least from the riding public.
Setting printers to print on both sides of the page saves about half the paper that would be used on any document of more than one page. In any organization the size of the MTA that can add up to an enormous amount of savings, much more than three trips of a special train will cost them. It’s not like the nostalgia train costs extravagantly more to run than a normal subway train, or they have huge costs involved with getting it operational, or anything like that which would make this more expensive.
What’s wasted? I can’t imagine it’s costing them much of anything.
Can’t cost any more than a regular 10-car IRT train making the same trip. Don’t be such a Scrooge.
It is good publicity. That has a value.
I’m not going to any of the games this week, but I want to go up to the Bronx just to ride on those trains.
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I remember riding these types of cars to Coney Island with my grandparents from Ditmas Ave. in Brooklyn on the “D” line.
Not exactly. These are Low-V IRT cars that can run on the IRT only. The “D” line in Brooklyn used BMT Standard cars, which cannot run on IRT lines because they are to big. They look somewhat similar, however, so your memory may be a bit clouded. Fun to ride either way!