New York trip -- transit museum
Sep. 28th, 2008 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellThe MTA turned an old subway station into a transit museum. While no subways currently use the station, it's still fully wired in to the subway system, so there is an active third rail as well as active train monitoring equipment. It was exciting to see a century worth of subway cars, still active and running.
A car from the 1910s. All the old cars had period-appropriate ads.
Hey, this ad's sexist *and* racist! From the 1920s, I think.
UI design circa 1930. Apparently the standards for tracking subway car movements haven't changed in, oh, 70 years. They were able to hook up this panel up to the system and have it show live train movements.
Some old signs:
A car from the 1910s. All the old cars had period-appropriate ads.
Hey, this ad's sexist *and* racist! From the 1920s, I think.
UI design circa 1930. Apparently the standards for tracking subway car movements haven't changed in, oh, 70 years. They were able to hook up this panel up to the system and have it show live train movements.
Some old signs:
