Over Tate’s Christmas school holidays we headed to the transit museum. It was a surprise to realise that despite being here for almost 3 years, we hadn’t actually been there yet! Quite remiss of us; given our train loving children!

The entrance is an old subway entrance!!!!

The first part of the museum is not really interactive and mostly informative. So, as you can imagine the boys got a bit antsy and bored in this section.

Pretending to make an explosion.

Tate and Knox were excited to see and be able to test out all the different turnstiles that the subways have had over the years. It’s always fun to make them turn around, especially given they normally have to duck under them when we go through on a daily basis. They don’t need a ticket yet so they can’t make the turnstiles move!

The 1939 model of turnstile.

The 1946 model.

Tate and Knox love going through these ones normally. Unfortunately this one was all chained up though!

According to this ticket-master one fare cost $7. I was a little shocked at how expensive subway travel was!

Next there were some buses for the kids to go into and pretend to drive. Unfortunately it was very difficult to get good photos of that!

The best of the photos….

On the lower level there are lots of old subway cars for the kids to explore. This was the obvious favourite and the kids were itching to go down there as soon as they knew it was there!

A post WW2 subway car. The war halted the manufacturing of subway cars.

A 1938 subway car.

We often end up on one of these trains when we catch the F train!

A 1916 subway car.

It was really interesting to look at a 1935 transit map.

Having a rest. Not quite sure he fits!