Train of Many Colors

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The Train of Many Colors (sometimes abbreviated as TOMC) is one of the New York Transit Museum's nostalgia trains used for A Division excursions, which is made up of cars that were formerly used on Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) lines. The name comes from the fact that the cars are painted in many varying schemes from different eras.^[1]

During the 2004 Subway Centennial, some of the cars were used for regular service on the 42nd Street Shuttle route. In addition, the cars may be used to commemorate a special occasion (e.g. the opening of Citi Field in Queens).

Some of the cars are housed in the New York Transit Museum when not used for excursions (R12, R15, R17, and R33S).^[2] Others are stored at the 207th Street Yard.

The "Train of Many Colors" fleet consists of 19 cars painted in various schemes, as listed below: not all of them run at the same time.

• New York City Transit Subway Centennial press release^{[permanent dead link]}, describing two museum trains that ran in 2004 in route service.^{[dead link]}
• New York City Transit's 'Train of Many Colors'

• Media related to Train of Many Colors at Wikimedia Commons