Standard Cars in Non-Standard Places. Former Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit/New York Transit Museum/Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT Subway A Type/Standard 2390 (ACF, 1914-1919) leads a lengthy vintage consist through the Classon Avenue Station (G Line) on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. The museum's Standards recently saw some shop time and were coupled to the museum's R9 set for a shakedown run up the Crosstown Line, reportedly the first time that these cars have been here in several decades. Most of the stations on this line are two-track side platform construction, but Classon Avenue has the unfulfilled provision for a middle track as a memorial to planned but never built subway expansion. The headlights of the lead motor have a pronounced presence from the hazy air brought on by Canadian wildfires that has affected even the underground of New York City.
