New York City Transit Museum

There's a very decent museum covering the history and building of the New York subways and bus system, situated in Brooklyn. On Saturday afternoon, I did my 'subway route bashing' in the direction of Brooklyn so that I could visit the Museum. Imaginatively, the museum is located in a disused subway station, so the entrance is steps down from a street corner, just like most subway station entrances (and as immortalised in countless films!). The circulating area one floor down, still with original wall tiles, houses all sorts of transport-related exhibits and the island passenger platform two floors down holds about 20 large exhibits on the two flanking tracks. These large exhibits are mainly examples of various subway cars as used over the years. Unlike a lot of museums, you can walk through and sit in all the cars. Being the weekend, there were lots of parents with children. Noisy from time to time, but anything that gets young people interested in railways is a good thing!

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