Passenger Trains > NY Transit Museum Parade of Trains

Celebrating the Transit Museum's 40th anniversary, four Transit Museum trains operated on the Q Line at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Saturday and is being repeated on Sunday.

Brooklyn Union Gate Cars 1404, 1273, and 1407; delivered in 1907, 1903, and 1907.  They operated from Brighton Beach to Ocean Parkway and back.

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The other three Museum trains ran between Brighton Beach and Kings Highway.
"Arnines": R1 381 (built 1931), R6 1300 and 1000 (1936), and R9 1802 (1940)

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A-B-D train: BMT Standards were known as A-B trains.  2390, 2391, and 2392 were delivered during WW I (Woodrow Wilson's administration).  D-Type Triplexes 6112 A,B,C were delivered in 1928.

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"Train of Many Metals": Slant R40 4280-4281 (1967), R42 4572-4573 (1969), R38 4028-4029 (1966).  Ironically, the 1964 Budd R32 fleet is not yet retired, still in daily service.

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For the first time in their 100 and 90 year lives, the MU connections on one end of the BMT Standard set was modified to train with the Triplexes. (The doors still have to be operated separately).

 Because air conditioning on all modern trains makes the tunnels hot, were the vintage cars uncomfortable to ride, even when moving?

Paul Ramer
Cincinnati, OH

The Parade of Trains operated only on elevated tracks.

chuchubob Wrote:
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> The Parade of Trains operated only on elevated
> tracks.

They wont run the Gate cars in the tunnels anymore apparently due to fire risk.  

Great to see a few examples saved for history, interesting to hear about the tunnels not being cool.

What was the Photo Ops strategy? Buy a ticket and stay on the platforms? Or find a view from a building or parking area? How does that work?

Are the older cars seperated from the current passenger fleet, are people standing aside and not boarding the older cars, waiting for their usual car?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/26/16 12:02 by TCnR.

The Parade of Trains made out and back trips from the Brighton Beach station on the Q Line.  The B express trains use the two center tracks and the Q uses the outside tracks.  The B express doesn't operate on weekends, so the inside trcks were available between Ocean Parkway and Kings Highway.  Major MOW was being done on the express tracks the other side of Kings Highway.
Anybody who was in the subway system could ride the Museum trains.  It cost me a $2.75 Metrocard swipe to enter the system at Herald Square after walking there (one long block) from Penn Station.
I snapped some photos from the platforms at Brighton Beach, then rode a Q train to Neck Road where I got the remainder of my photos.  The first three and the last photo were from Brighton Beach; the ones between were from Neck Road.