Sansone, Gene.

New York subways : an illustrated history of New York City's transit cars / Gene Sansone. - Centennial edition - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the New York Transit Museum, 2004. - xiii, 508 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Revised edition of: Evolution of New York City subways. c1997

The locomotive era
Historic IRT cars
Vintage BMT cars
R type New York City cars

The product of years of research in various city archives, New York Subways supplies a comprehensive account of the rapid transit system's design and engineering history plus an extensive array of photographs, engineering plans, and technical data for nearly every subway car in the New York City system, from the days of steam and cable to the present."--BOOK JACKET

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Subways--History.--New York (State)--New York
Local transit--History.--New York (State)--New York
Metro (Medio de transporte) --Historia--Nueva York (Estados Unidos)
Tránsito local --Nueva York (Estados Unidos)
Transporte público --Estados Unidos

HE 4491 / S229n 2004

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