Subway Train in the City Coloring Page

Looking for subway coloring pages with a whole city in them? This Subway Train in the City Coloring Page stacks three subjects into one sheet: a train coming out of a brick tunnel mouth at the bottom, a skyline of seven buildings behind it, and a large station clock and lettered sign filling the top. It is the busiest page in this set and the one that takes longest to finish. The clock reads ten o'clock, which makes it quietly useful for a child learning to tell time. Free letter size PDF.

How we made this coloring page

The concept given to Colorin AI was: "A subway train emerging head on from a tunnel with a station light above it and city buildings rising higher up the page." The printable came back in seconds.

"Rising higher up the page" is the instruction that stacked the composition. A subway train with a city behind it, asked for plainly, comes back with the buildings squeezed into a thin strip along the horizon, because that is where a city sits in real life. Naming the vertical arrangement let the skyline climb into the upper half and made room for the clock and the sign above it. The result uses the tall sheet from top to bottom rather than filling only the middle.

What makes this subway coloring page unique

The clock is what sets it apart. It is drawn full face with all twelve numbers and two hands, which is unusual in a transport coloring page and gives the drawing a second use.

Print it for a six year old and you have a coloring page and a clock face lesson on the same sheet. The numbers are large and evenly spaced, so they hold up even after a marker has been over them.

The inventory: the tunnel arch is built from about thirty brick shapes in two rings, with the arch interior filled solid black on both sides of the train. Seven buildings stand behind it, one with a dome and antenna, one with a pointed roof, the rest flat topped, carrying between four and twelve windows each. The clock is a full circle with twelve numerals and two hands set at ten. Below it a rounded sign reads SUBWAY STATION in outlined bubble letters. The train front has a split windshield with shine strokes, one wiper, four round lamps plus two small ones, and a coupler box. The track runs to the viewer over seven ties, with low cloud banks at both sides.

Ways to Color This Page

Do the skyline in one color at three different pressures, palest at the back. Seven buildings in seven colors turns a city into a toy box; one color in three tones turns it into distance.

The brick arch is the slow part. Two closely related shades alternating at random will read as brick. Trying to color all thirty bricks individually is how this page gets abandoned at the halfway mark.

Leave the clock face white and color only the rim and the hands. A white dial is what makes a clock legible, and it also keeps the numbers readable for whatever the page gets used for afterward.