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| Sat Jul 4 2009
| Seashore Trolley Museum - Founder's Day
| Founder's Day ~ Celebrating 70 Years! The Trolley Parade is a yearly joint celebration of Independence Day and the Museum's birthday (Our Museum was founded on July 5, 1939). Many trolleys in our collection that don't normally see regular service are brought out for
exhibit and to be run past the reviewing stand for our visitors, while a
commentary is given with a brief history of each trolley.
More info:
http://www.trolleymuseum.org/
Seashore Trolley Museum
195 Log Cabin Road
Kennebunkport, ME 04046
| | Sun Aug 2 2009
| New York Transit Museum - Nostalgia Train - 81st St-Central Park West
| Ride the New York Transit Museum's vintage fleet! Enjoy exclusive access
to the Transit Museum, in Brooklyn Heights, before boarding the IND R1/9
trains for a trip east on the A line, terminating on Manhattan's Upper
West Side, where we tour Arts for Transit's "For Want of a Nail,"
installation in the 81 Street-Museum of Natural History subway station.
Walking tours of Central Park or the Museum wrap up the day. If you love
trains, stay on board for an uptown trip and shop tour at 207th Street!
The IND Standard Revenue series subway cars known as the R1 - R9s
entered operation in the 1930s. Numbered 100-399, they were operated on
the new IND (Independent Subway) 8th Avenue line. The new IND R1 subway
cars featured rattan seats, overhead fans, baked porcelain hand holds
and poles, and a more efficient seating pattern than their predecessors,
such as the IRT Low-V and BMT Triplex cars. The new IND cars
improved passenger loading with four pairs of individual double leaf
doors as compared to three on the BMT Standards with center posts. Other
BMT innovations used on the D Types such as illuminated end and side
destination and lettered route signs were incorporated into the design
of the IND fleet.
Sunday, August 2, 2009, at 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Nostalgia Ride: 81st Street-Central Park West
$30, Museum members $25, Children (5 - 17) $10 including Transit Museum
admission.
American Museum of Natural History: $10.50 adults, $6.50 Children.
Walking Tour of Central Park: $12
For reservations and tickets call (718) 694-1867.
This event operated by: New York Transit Museum
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