Brooklyn Rail Tours

The guide was well informed, personable, responsive. I wanted this tour. The guide engaged my friend in a way that also made her ecstatic that she went on the tour.

Our parents went on one of Rayn’s Grand Central tours a couple years ago and gifted us this experience. It did not disappoint. We traveled through time on the three original companies of NY subways through humor, facts, and improvisation based on group interest and the train schedules. A great experience and will be back for more.

Rayn was an excellent guide! He made the subway tour informative, engaging, and easy to follow. Learned so many interesting things I would have never noticed on my own. Highly recommend this tour with Rayn.

Ryan is knowledgeable and seamlessly walks you in and out of train stations and trains, pointing out unique things in plain sight with a dose of history. So much fun!

Rayn - was amazing! He was excellent at meeting all of us where we were in subway knowledge - some advanced, some beginner. He was also great at making the tour seem like just a day with friends where you learn along the way. It did not seem overly rehearsed or planned but he kept us always entertained. He also had a great itinerary that kept it moving while still being flexible and not rushing us along.Would recommend to anyone! Especially "FOAMERS"

Rayn was awesome. Super knowledgable and funny with lots of anecdotes about the subway and its history. We really enjoyed the tour!

This guy knows his trains and is chill and fun. Great tour through the Brooklyn subways with a ton of knowledge about a bunch more things nyc.

I organized a surprise tour for my husband and his friends. Rayn absolutely killed it. These guys had the best time. Rayn was exceptional in coordinating with me ahead of time, not only on timing and locations, but also in accommodating some special requests I had (stop into a bar for a round of beers midway…)Rayn was very responsive and the guys said the tour was both extremely informative and fun. 10/10 would recommend Rayn.I’ll mention that we’re all New Yorkers who know a fair amount about transit, so the bar was high and Rayn delivered.

Entertaining, incredibly informative, fun tour of secrets of the NYC subway. Great for tourists and natives alike. Highly recommended.

Rayn was the kindest, calmest, and most knowledgeable tour guide as we went through the highlights of the Brooklyn subway. He was super encouraging to the subway enthusiasts on the trip (including my teenage son). I felt like we were on a birding expedition with an expert ornithologist. I loved that he also shared what it was like to work for the MTA and what it’s like now to work as an urban planner. It was also easy to hear, since he had earpieces for all of us.

Rayn was a wonderful host on these tours. You can tell the passion he has with the history of the subway. My son and I had the best time learning so much and seeing some of the cool abandoned stations. He also had a thoughtful touch of speaker and headsets to hear him better amongst the noise. This was so helpful for someone like myself who is hard of hearing. Definitely would recommend!!

Very cool tour - Rayn is clearly super knowledgeable and shares lots of great information and little known gems. He took advantage of some opportunities that presented themselves (doors that perhaps shouldn’t have been open?) and we got to have some unique experiences and took some amazing pics. Highly recommend.

Rayn is incredible! My son has been passionate about transit since before he could talk, and this is the first time I met someone who could teach him so much that he didn’t already know about the NYC subway. It’s clear that Rayn is passionate about the subway and loves sharing his knowledge with others. My son and I often take trains for 4-6 hours at a time just for fun, and Rayn pointed out so many details that we’ve never noticed. He knows how the system works, the history, what’s coming next, everything. Highly recommend it.

Rayne was wonderful. So much information. I would recommend this tour to anyone who likes some history..

Amazing! Rayn is an incredibly engaging and knowledgeable guide. We had a great time exploring the stations and learning the history. I highly recommend this tour!

The subways are where the past, present, and potential future of New York City collide in a smelly, drippy, rat-ridden tunnel - in a good way that is. I've taken other NYC subway tours lead by other operators, but Rayn's was definitely the best. The tour was well planned, with a rhythm that was never boring nor tiring, as past tours by others seemed to drone on. Rayn is hilarious, full of fun facts to sprout on trivia night or on an unsuspecting date, and he had the whole group laughing and engaged and sharing his passion for NYC mass transit. I'm sure we all disembarked seeing the train system and NYC in a whole new light.