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If you’re heading up to opening day at Yankee stadium on Thursday, this method of getting there is guaranteed to be a home run. And you’ll only need a MetroCard.
Once again, the New York Transit Museum is running one of their throwback nostalgia trains from Grand Central up to Yankee Stadium for opening day of the 2019 regular season.
The train that’s set to depart tomorrow is—amazingly enough—more than 100 years old. It’s one of the museum’s 1917 Lo-V train cars and features rattan seats, ceiling fans and drop sash windows. (Can you imagine?) The vintage train would have served subway customers a few years before the first pitch was thrown at the original Yankee Stadium.
"Can you think of a better way to get to the Yankees Home Opener than hopping aboard a 1917 train for the trip to the stadium?” says New York Transit Museum Director Concetta Bencivenga. “We are delighted to be able to take you back in time and to the Bronx, just swipe your MetroCard and meet us on the platform!”
After operating for more than five decades, and at one point numbering more than 1,200 in service across the system, the Lo-V subway fleet was formally retired in the 1960s. The nostalgia train is set to leave the uptown 4 train platform at 42nd Street-Grand Central at 11am and will run non-stop on the Lexington Avenue Line, arriving at 161st Street-Yankee Stadium in about 25 minutes.
The trip should get you up to the Bronx with plenty of time before the first pitch of the game, which is scheduled for 1:05pm.