⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ NYC Subway Front Window View - Vintage R1-9 Running from Coney Island to 38th Street Yard

The NY Transit Museum occasionally runs special "Nostalgia Rides" for ticketed customers! These trips provide funding for the continued upkeep, restoration, and maintenance of the MTA's beautiful and comprehensive museum train fleet. Interestingly, most of these trains have passenger-accessible front windows, allowing riders a great view of the tracks ahead.
Note: This footage was taken from a publicly accessible part of the train. No footage shown in this video was recorded from a non-public viewpoint. Please do not trespass and/or place cameras in non-publicly accessible areas.
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Taken in July 2022.

[@frankortolano5886]

How wonderful, as a train operator I operated all of those trains

[@everettthepetractionguy4222]

I envy you. As a young man, years ago, back in the mid-seventies, I wanted to be a New York City (MTA) motorman. But, people who are hard of hearing, like me, don't get hired to operate trains. 😔 Understandably so. Therefore, my only option is model railroading. 😁

[@K1_Trains]

I was on this train at the other end it was an amazing ride and such a treat to go in the yard. At the time I didn't understand why we reversed back out rather then take the loop but seeing that loop now I can understand why there is no way that train could had made it!

[@kevinhoward9593]

I love the sound of the whistle.

[@opencirclefleet]

*Timestamps* *Brooklyn* *BMT Sea Beach Line* 00:11 Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue (NYC Subway: D, F, , N, Q; NYCT Bus: NYCT Bus: B36, B64, B68, B74, B82) 01:00 _Crossover with BMT West End Line* 01:12 *BMT West End Line* 02:19 _Stillwell Yard Lead Splits_ 02:57 Stillwell Yard 05:20 _Coney Island Yard Lead Splits_ 05:26 Bay 50th Street (SKIPPED) 06:12 _Coney Island Yard Lead Merges_ 08:14 25th Avenue (SKIPPED) 09:25 Bay Parkway (SKIPPED) 10:19 20th Avenue (SKIPPED) 11:09 18th Avenue (SKIPPED) 12:09 79th Street (SKIPPED) 12:51 71st Street (SKIPPED) 14:02 62nd Street (SKIPPED) 14:59 55th Street (SKIPPED) 18:25 50th Street (SKIPPED) 19:18 Fort Hamilton Parkway (SKIPPED) 21:31 _Tunnel Portal where the Demolished Portion of the BMT Culver Line Ran to Ninth Avenue_ 21:54 Ninth Avenue (SKIPPED) 22:45 _Lower Level Tracks Run Up to Upper Level_ 23:38 _36th-38th Street Yard Leads Split_ 23:44 *36th-38th Street Yard* 24:13 _(CENTER LEFT) Trackways to Demolished BMT Ninth Avenue Line_

[@Bassotronics]

Thank You! It was much needed to know. 👍🏻😊👍🏻

[@nonothing4474]

Description says "taken from a publicy accessible area" YEA WHERE ELSE? 😂

[@theocolbert6670]

Man push that throttle 😂

[@amourflower9893]

I love riding the trains outside. The best NYC rides.

[@jameskerner7782]

I was a conductor on the BMT/IND and worked on the B.

[@abdielgarcia6737]

I wish i could ride a New York train

[@dream.machine]

Awesome video! 😃 I really wanted to see and hear the 38th Street Yard Loop, still awesome nonetheless!

[@davehorner8126]

Just wanted to let you know how much I love your videos. Thanks so much from your fans in Philly.

[@DARTHBLUNT713]

That was so awesome

[@paulwarner5395]

Thanx for the nice ride..

[@VideoNOLA]

Ah, the glorious riveted deliciousness of an ol' Arnine!

[@4440bestbus]

25:00 you can see the Jackie Gleason bus depot on the right

[@marcusarline7135]

Splendid Ride

[@china-trip]

Wow, My best friend, Wonderful video dear. I enjoyed watching. Hope to see you soon...

[@LingLiu2014]

Beautiful ❤️ love the explanation of the tracks and points! Our UK trains are similar except the light system

[@railfanlondonwhaley9521]

I enjoyed that video 👍👍

[@DJHammersTrains]

Glad you enjoyed it!!

[@jimneutron157]

Good video but would have been seriously awesome if there was more of 38th St yard. It's like it ended right at the good part.

[@brianmohammed1790]

cool video on the r1 9 subway cars

[@Mrbeahz1]

Great video! I always wondered where those ramps west of 9th Ave. went.

[@roadjdr4678]

Great front view video. At the end of the video is it true what someone yelled saying that there was an R110 in the yard? I know I heard that the NYC subway system was taking there R110A to be rebuilt as a pump train.

[@8avexp]

Did 103's motors take power, or were they cut out?

[@villavine10]

The only RFW where you get to see a yard

[@nonothing4474]

biggest lie out there

[@Mrbeahz1]

DJH has a Jerome Ave. (4 Train) video with a yard diversion in the Bronx. It's very cool: has a bunch of kids yelling enthusiastically "Look at the Redbirds! Look at the Redbirds!"

[@nonothing4474]

@@Mrbeahz1 yea exactly

[@brianalvarado24]

How did you get on this usually these trains dont really run on these days

[@bryantsanders2389]

Hi

[@yaroslavyatsyk6475]

How do express trains run on the middle track? Like in morning peak inbound, and evening outbound or what?

[@fiercingdragon]

The express track on the West End Line is occasionally used for work trains and when trains in service have to use the express track due to either incidents or planned work/re-routes. Several ways for trains to switch to the middle. When a northbound train is about to approach or pass the Bay 50th Street station, there's a curve that allows the train to switch from local to express. - The Bay Parkway and 62nd Street station has it, but only for southbound trains. - The 9th Avenue station has a curve in both directions.

[@PotatoLemons1]

Could we have a timelapse version of this?

[@lohphat]

ZOMFG the nerd chatter in the background makes me want to join a monastery.

[@PetzFirearms]

Legend has it he has not stopped talking yet.

[@andreiter]

Nice soundtrack. Sounds like the cast of "13" lmao

[@maltitiabubakar830]

😎

[@jessemontano762]

In another life, i would have gone down into the tunnels exploring...

[@iheartjetaviation2764]

Love your videos, and I am a subscriber. Can anyone tell me why there are what appears to be tracks between the 2 main tracks? Sometimes they are painted with yellow at the ends and sometimes appear to be turned inwards at the ends. Thanks

[@chief-mo6mf]

These inner rails are called guardrails. In case a train derails, they keep the train from completely going off the tracks. They minimize the sideward travel of the derailed train.

[@iheartjetaviation2764]

@@chief-mo6mf Thank you so much for answering the question I've had since childhood. Back then my grandpa and I would always go to the first car, leaving Flatbush Ave for lower Manhattan, so I could look out the window. What wonderful memories I have of those days with him.

[@fredashay]

Why did your train stop at 17:20 while the other train passed ? Was there a risk the two trains could hit each other even though they're on separate tracks?

[@K1_Trains]

Hi there I was on the train at the other end bassicly they had to manually reset the signal so after the train stopped at the rear in someone got out reset the signal then we moved on towards 9th av

[@fredashay]

@@K1_Trains Oh? Okay! Thanks for the explanation! 🙂

[@HayleyKiyokoLineBMT]

You're getting a lot closer to 70k

[@kennethrembert7925]

Is this on the Q train?

[@luislaplume8261]

The ramps without the tracks 2as the connection to the Bay Ridge 5th Ave. El to Downtown Brooklyn.

[@W2IRT]

That's actually not correct Luis. They were only used extremely briefly circa 1915 during construction, and abandoned shortly after that. 5av. trains ran down from the el and then on what are today's yard tracks 21 and 22. The used the main ramps, then used tracks C1, C2, and C3 through the lower level of 9th Ave, then up to the Culver line on Gravesend (McDonald) Avenue.

[@luislaplume8261]

@@W2IRT Thank you. I always wondered what they were actually used for if not for entry for the 5th Ave. Bay Ridge El. It has been without tracks since the 1960s when I first saw it.

[@W2IRT]

@@luislaplume8261 AS I wrote in my book (Tracks of the NYC Subway), "Two abandoned ramps, known as the Fifth Avenue Inclines, were built and used during construction of the West End Line, but were never in passenger service. "Construction photos from that era show the inclines with track-but no third rail-in place circa 1915, but when the line opened in 1916 those rails had been removed and the ramps have never been used since. Their original purpose remains unclear, but it could be speculated that revenue service Culver trains would use those ramps, and yard moves would use Y1/Y2 exclusively."

[@Han-wh5ie]

Indrukwekkende infrastructuur.

[@JayseGreene]

Awesome video to watch on MUTE.

[@noahquinones9469]

Fact

[@fiercingdragon]

Ahhh F trains were running on the D line

[@fredashay]

They took the train into the yard with passengers?!?! How did the passengers get off without a platform? And did you have to walk along the ground next to active tracks to get to those buses? I'd have loved to been there, but it also strikes me as incredibly dangerous to let the public walk along the tracks like that. Or did they kill the power to the 3rd rails while the people walked through the yard?

[@DJHammersTrains]

Passengers were not let off of the train in the yard. The train was brought in to the yard, and from there it switched directions and returned to Coney Island. Under special operations like this, it's permissible to allow a train like this in to the yard.

[@fredashay]

@@DJHammersTrains Cool! Thanks for replying! 🙂 Must have been a nice treat to see a yard up close from inside a train!

[@trainmaster67158]

@@DJHammersTrains i was on that train LOL

[@knickerbockerewing3398]

Honk 10,000,000 million times. 😩😩

[@KennethScharf]

Sea Beach tracks blocked? WTF?

[@fiercingdragon]

I believe it was planned work there, as N trains terminated at Kings Highway.

[@JohnR-wf2hh]

Some of the adult's commentary makes me cringe, especially around 20th 18th aves lol.

[@Howrider65]

To many ads.

[@optimistforever852]

All the talking ruins it

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

Only annoying kids ruining rfw videos

[@odemata87]

Cringe rail fanatics

[@jamesdavis6036]

Those awful buffs.