{"id":28,"date":"2004-10-27T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T06:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/10\/happy_birthday_mr_subway.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:27:35","slug":"happy_birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/happy_birthday.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Mr. Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the pleasure of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/subway\/vintagecars\/index.htm\">riding one of the vintage trains<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.info\/nyct\/cen\/vintage_train.htm\">MTA trotted out to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the subway system<\/a>.  I was not the only geek waiting sheepishly as several standard S trains pulled out of Times Square, a small knot of mostly middle-aged men with fancy cameras and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imageexchange.com\/mvx10\/engine.cgi?cid=4GlXI2LpYKZimh6oSu5dYHusRC&#038;store=nytm&#038;page=default&#038;body=sku1&#038;sku=10874\">subway-themed attire<\/a> tipped me off to the track that the vintage cars would pull into.  The shuttle train is always short, and this one had only three cars.  One was from 1940s, I think, with wicker seats and a pretty foreign-looking subway map.  The middle car looked kinda 50s, with teardrop-shaped hangers and linoleum tile floor; the last was baby blue and was probably from the 60s.  The coolest part was reading the ads &#8211; all vintage.  My favorites were a Kool ad from the 60s with a smoking penguin (!) and a movie poster pitching Marlon Brando in The Wild One.<\/p>\n<p>Many passengers seemed to know what was going on (they were announcing the centennial in all the stations all day, and it&#8217;s been a news story for months now with various museums putting up exhibitions), but a fair number were visibly amazed\/confused.  A group of teenagers sitting next to me were giddy, yelling &#8220;Yo, man, this is what you call a throwback car!&#8221; to no one in particular.  An older woman to my left mumbled, &#8220;This makes me think I&#8217;m drunk.&#8221;  I think the MTA should run these puppies more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the pleasure of riding one of the vintage trains that the MTA trotted out to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the subway system. I was not the only geek waiting sheepishly as several standard S trains pulled out of Times Square, a small knot of mostly middle-aged men with fancy cameras and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}