On weekdays weather permitting some of our vintage buses will be running weekdays on the M42 line across 42st in Manhattan through December 19. There will be a few restored buses from the 50s and 60s in service.
On Sundays through the end of the year a vintage subway train will be running on the M line in Manhattan from 2av to Queens Plaza
http://www.mta.info/news-holiday-nostalgia-ride-bus-subway/2014/11/21/nostalgia-trains-buses-return-holidays
oh god that is awesome!
That is very cool, have you driven it before?
This is very cool. It's even cool that these buses have been preserved in the first place.
That's cool.
The Minneapolis Transportation Museum has a couple similar vintage buses they bring out for special occasions as well - they're fun to ride in, but watching the driver it appears they're a lot more work to drive than modern buses. 
Awesome!
That would actually make me want to ride the bus.
That would be a fun ride. I would love to have a bus from the 50s or 60s to do a RV conversion to.
Around here they bring out the mid-century wooden-bodied open-air buses around this time of year:
Here they are after a days work. I have never gotten to drive these, they never kept them in any depot I worked at. They have a nice collection of vintage buses going back to early 1900s but these are the oldest they can put into service. They are fairly modern with four wheel air brakes, air ride and they are fitted with the same radial tires on current buses. They are still old school in that there is no power steering, air seat or other modern conveniences but people still like to drive and ride on them with some of the old timers breaking out their old uniforms and 8 point hats.
The bus I rode in here in Minneapolis was the same vintage (mid 1950s GMC, I think?) and it had an interesting transmission - there was no clutch pedal, but the driver still had to shift gears; I assume it had a torque converter instead of a clutch. The driver did grind some gears, I suppose there was a little trick in matching revs when shifting.
They might want to put those back in the barn until the nonsense stops.
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