Nowadays, the most color you'll see on a subway car are the advertisements.
The subway cars of yore had far more interesting paint color schemes. You can see a whole range of them in video below, taken last week of an eight-car train on its way to the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn Heights.
Rolling through the 2nd Avenue station on the F line on the Lower East Side were vintage Redbird cars built in the 1950s and '60s. The Redbird fleet of 1,400 cars that came in six design classes served many of the MTA's numbered lines before they were phased out.
Our favorite cars are the last two, an R16 car that came into service in 1955, with a Brussels-sprout green exterior and pale blue interior, and a sporty robin's-egg blue and cream-colored R33 built for the World's Fair in 1964.
New Yorkers can get the chance to ride in a vintage car when the city takes out its "Train of Many Colors," comprised of 11 brightly hued mid-century cars, for special occasions.
