[Museum] New York Transit Museum

I was running out of ideas about what to do in New York, so one autumn afternoon, I decided to visit the New York Transit Museum to see what was there.

Located in Downtown Brooklyn, it took me one excursion to finally find the entrance. Turned out the museum entrance was a subway entrance, which was easy to be missed.

The museum entrance

After making my way down, and paying $10 entrance fees, I entered the tunnel-like alley to read and see photos about the constructions of New York subway stations. I learned some nice things about the heavy work required to build the subway tunnels.

Photos and tools used in the subway construction

The heat and air pressure were insane, and workers could pass out under such environment. Also, they had some pressure device to keep the water out while digging through the rivers. I forgot the technical name of this device lol.

After this part, I went to the area where they were showing off some turnstiles used in the past. I liked the wooden turnstiles much more than the metallic ones used nowadays. But really, Why does human being keep getting worse and worse over time?

The wooded turnstile used in the 1900s

The metallic turnstile used in the 90s

The ticket machine.Yes, they sold the coins as tickets back then.

Done with the turnstiles, I walked downstairs to find out the main attractions of this museums: Subway cars of the past!

Photo of how subway trains looked like in the past

The platform and the light decorations looked really cool, then we had some miniature subway platform, which was cool too.

The platform that housed the old subway cars

Miniature subway platform

I walked into the subway car (all wooden), sat down on the wicker seats, and thought how cool it was to ride such cars in the past. It should have been a high class privilege to ride these subway train.

One of the oldest subway cars. Wooden and wicker seats

Then I imagine how cool to sit in these wooden cars, watching snow, and people wearing black tux and hat in the 1900s. My thoughts wandered to the movie Polar Express. It would be really nice to take such a train trip to travel somewhere. I would be a dream.

 Just imagine sitting here and watching snow falling outside

And watching people in black tux and hat walking outside

Moving on, humanity keeps getting worse and worse, with submarine-like metallic train cars. Haiz, I won't bother talking much about this.

The metallic and submarine-like subway train

There were also ad flyers from the long past, which were fun to see.

 Ad flyers from the past

Ad flyers from the past

After watching these cars, I walked up stairs to see the part about 9/11 where the transit workers responded to the catastrophe. This reminded me of the 9/11 museum. I guess my next blog post will be about the 9/11 museum then.

The 9/11 responders

Overall, great place to hang out for $10. Not as grand as other well-known New York museums though./.

PS: If you have read this long, how am I doing recently? Super stressed on my getting-rich journey Hahahaha.
I need a lot of luck on the next 3 days for one of my trade to not lose a lot of money. Live free or die trying.