You could relive the '80s by listening to Madonna's greatest hits, watching any John Hughes film, or catching a ride on the ghost K train.
A roll sign — those signs in the window that identify which train you're riding — purporting to be for the defunct train has made a recent appearance on the subway, according to one perplexed Redditor.
The K train used to run on what is today the A/C/E track. It doubled C train service, transporting passengers midday and on weekends while the C handled rush-hour crowds.
But the 8th Avenue train hasn't run between 168th Street and the World Trade Center since Dec. 10, 1988.
K was the name given the former AA train when the MTA replaced old signage and discontinued the use of double letters in 1985. (The MTA had previously indicated express trains with single letters, local trains with two.)
K train signage made at least one appearance last March, captured in a YouTube video by subway enthusiast Max Diamond (a.k.a. DJ Hammers). In that instance, someone snuck into the rear car of an F train to change its electronic signage and its end-car sign.
Diamond believes the latest prank is the work of the "Subway Conquestors," a group of teenage vandals arrested last year for breaking into out-of-service cars, replacing signs, and sparking explosions on the rails. Members of the group boasted about their K train antics publicly on Facebook, he said.
"Obviously I can't be 100 percent sure," Diamond said, "but that kind of thing, just very indicative of something they would do.
The Subway Conquestors could not be reached for comment.
