Evolution of New York City subways : an illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867-1997 / by Gene Sansone ; with a new foreword by Clifton Hood.

Main entry:

Sansone, Gene.

Title & Author:

Evolution of New York City subways : an illustrated history of New York City's transit cars, 1867-1997 / by Gene Sansone ; with a new foreword by Clifton Hood.

Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Description:

xxiv, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
"In association with the New York Transit Museum."
Originally published: New York : New York Transit Museum Press, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Summary:

"A collaborative labor of love by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York Transit Museum, Gene Sansone's Evolution of New York City Subways: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars, 1867-1997 - now available from the Johns Hopkins University Press with a new foreword by Clifton Hood - offers an extensive array of photographs, line drawings, and stories about the city's most treasured railcars. Subway buffs, railfans, students of New York City history, and specialists in the history of technology will appreciate this authoritative account. MTA New York City Transit and Sansone provide a record of the rolling stock that helped make New York City one of the great cities of the world."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801868866 (alk. paper)
9780801868863 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Subways New York (State) New York History.
Local transit New York (State) New York History.
Métros New York (État) New York Histoire.
Transports publics New York (État) New York Histoire.
Local transit
Subways
Trams.
Tramlijnen.
Ondergrondse spoorwegen.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

New York Transit Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221112
Call No.: HE4491.N65 S2 2002
Status: Available

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