New York City

Chronology

10.03.2023	Начало эксплуатации вагонов R211. Ввод в эксплуатацию состоялся линии А.
09.10.2020	R32 cars are removed from revenue service. Last trains to operate were [N] 3586/3587-3774/3775-3658/3471-3574/3575 [S] and [N] 3714/3715-3924/3925-3706/3707-3889/3888 [S] on October 8, 2020.
01.07.2020	R32 cars are back in revenue service on the J/Z.
04.06.2020	На автобусном маршруте M86 началась эксплуатация сочлененных электробусов.
27.04.2020	R32 subway cars are retired from revenue service. Last train to operate was 3489/3488-3514/3415-3646/3447-3520/3891 on March 26, 2020.
	All Entries

Manhattan and the Bronx

×	Dry Dock, East Broadway & Battery Railroad Co. · TARS 1863–1932	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Eighth Avenue Railroad 1852–1936. 1926 to Eighth & Ninth Avenues Railway; 1935 to Green Lines	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Metropolitan Street Railway 1893–1911. 1911 to New York Railways	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	New York City Interborough Railway 1906–1911. 1911 to Union Railway	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	New York & Harlem Railroad 1832–1936. 1932 to New York Railways	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	New York Railways 1911 New York Railways Co. → 1925–1936 New York Railways Corp. (1935–1936 operated as Green Lines)	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Ninth Avenue Railroad 1859–1935. 1926 to Eighth & Ninth Avenues Railway; 1935 to Green Lines	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Second Avenue Railroad Co. 1853–1933	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	TARR — horsecars · TARS Third Avenue Railroad. 1853–1893	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	TARR — cable cars — 10th Ave. & 125th St. · TARS Third Avenue Railroad. 1886–1899	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	TARR — cable cars — Main Line · TARS Third Avenue Railroad. 1893–1899	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	TARR — electric cars · TARS Third Avenue Railroad. 1899–1900. 1900 to Metropolitan Street Railway	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Third Avenue Railway Co. · TARS 1908 Third Avenue Railroad Co. → 1910 Third Avenue Railway Co. → 1942–1947 Third Avenue Transit Co. [conduit and storage battery cars of TARS are listed here | Carhouses: Amsterdam Ave., 54th St., 65th St.]	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Union Railway / Third Avenue Railway System · TARS 1892 Union Railway Co. → 1942–1948 Third Avenue Transit Co. [overhead wire cars of the Union Railway and TARS are listed here | Carhouses: Harlem, Kingsbridge, West Farms]	List of the models Vehicles without photos
	Entire list	List of the models Vehicles without photos

Brooklyn and Queens

×	Brooklyn & Queens Transit Co. 1896 Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. → 1929–1956 Brooklyn & Queens Transit Co.	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Brooklyn Queens County & Suburban Railroad Co. 1894–1896. Operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. since 1896. Cars included within BRT roster	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. 1887–1896 (in operation 1891). Operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. since 1896. Operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. since 1896. Cars included within BRT roster	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Brooklyn City Railroad Co. 1853–1929 (in operation 1854). Leased by the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Co. in 1893–1919. Merged into Brooklyn & Queens Transit Co. Cars included within BRT/B&QT roster	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Nassau Electric Railroad Co. 1893–1899. Operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. since 1899. Cars included within BRT roster	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Atlantic Avenue Railroad Co. 1872 Atlantic Avenue Railroad Co. → 1893 Brooklyn Traction Co. → 1896 Kings County Traction Co. 1896 to Nassau Electric Railroad Co.	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Broadway Ferry & Metropolitan Avenue Railroad Co. 1870 North Second Street & Middle Village Railroad Co. → 1885 Brooklyn, Bushwick and Queens County Railroad Co. → 1892–1894 Broadway Ferry and Metropolitan Avenue Railroad Co. 1894 to Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban Railroad Co.	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad Co. 1860–1914 (in operation 1862). 1914 to Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co.	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Jamaica & Brooklyn Road Co. 1863 East New York & Jamaica Railroad Co. → 1872 Jamaica, Woodhaven & Brooklyn Railroad Co. → 1879 Jamaica & Brooklyn Road Co. 1894 to Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban Railroad Co.	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Jamaica Central Railways Co. 1897 Long Island Electric Railway Co. → 1926–1934 Jamaica Central Railways Co.	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Manhattan Bridge Three-Cent Line 1909–1929	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Manhattan & Queens Traction Co. 1903 South Shore Traction Co. (in operation 1909) → 1912–1937 Manhattan & Queens Traction Co.	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	New York & Queens County Railway 1896 New York and Queens County Railway → 1932–1937 New York and Queens Transit Corporation	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Ocean Electric Railway Co. 1898–1928	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Steinway Lines 1892 Steinway Railway → 1896 New York & Queens Railway → 1922 Steinway Lines → 1938–1939 Steinway Transit	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Queensboro Bridge Railway 1939–1957	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Van Brunt Street & Erie Basin Railroad Co. 1861–1929 (in operation 1863)	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Bush Terminal Railroad 1907–1936 [passenger service]	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Bridge Operating Co. 1904–1920. Williamsburg Bridge	List of the models Vehicles without photos
M	Brooklyn Historic Railway Association Private preservation group	List of the models Vehicles without photos
	Entire list	List of the models Vehicles without photos

Staten Island

×

Richmond Railways Co. 1895 Staten Island Electric Railroad → 1902 Richmond Light & Railroad → 1927–1934 Richmond Railways

List of the models Vehicles without photos

Outlying Westchester County

×	Westchester Electric Railway Co. · TARS 1893–1950	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Westchester Street Railroad Co. 1894 New York Elmsford & White Plains → 1898 Tarrytown White Plains & Mamaroneck → 1926–1929 Westchester Street Railroad	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Yonkers Railroad · TARS 1887–1952	List of the models Vehicles without photos
	Entire list	List of the models Vehicles without photos

Outlying Long Island

×	New York & Long Island Traction Co. 1901 Mineola, Hempstead & Freeport Traction Co → 1902–1926 New York & Long Island Traction	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	New York & North Shore Traction Co. 1902 Mineola, Roslyn & Port Washington Traction → 1907–1920 New York & North Shore Traction	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Metropolitan Sand & Gravel Corp. · American Aggregates Port Washington, Long Island	List of the models Vehicles without photos
	Entire list	List of the models Vehicles without photos

×

Department of Plants & Structures Staten Island Midland and Williamsburg Bridge Divisions. 1920–1927. Municipal operator

List of the models Vehicles without photos

All vehicles in the city

List of the models Vehicles without photos

Brooklyn and Queens

×

Brooklyn & Queens Transit 1930–1960

List of the models Vehicles without photos

Staten Island

×

Tottenville & Staten Island 1921–1927

List of the models Vehicles without photos

All vehicles in the city

List of the models Vehicles without photos

•	38th Street Yard · NYCTA Maintenace-of-Way yard	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	207th Street Yard · NYCTA Services: C	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	239th Street Yard · NYCTA Services: 2	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	240th Street Yard · NYCTA Services: 1	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Clifton Yard · NYCTA Services: SIRT	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Concourse Yard · NYCTA Services: D	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Coney Island Yard · NYCTA Services: B, G, N, W, Q, Franklin Avenue Shuttle	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Corona Yard · NYCTA Services: 7, <7>	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	East 180th Street Yard · NYCTA Services: 5	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	East New York Yard · NYCTA Services: L, M, J, Z	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Jamaica Yard · NYCTA Services: E, F, R	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Jerome Yard · NYCTA Services: 4	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Livonia Yard · NYCTA Services: 3, 42nd Street Shuttle	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Pitkin Yard · NYCTA Services: A, Rockaway Park Shuttle	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Unionport Yard · NYCTA Lay-up facility. Services: 2, 5	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	Westchester Yard · NYCTA Services: 6, <6>	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	New York City Transit Authority · NYCTA A and B divisions | Independent Subway System → 1953 New York City Transit Authority	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Interborough Rapid Transit 1903–1940. 1940 to A Division of the Independent Subway System	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit 1896 Brooklyn Rapid Transit → 1923 Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit. 1940 to B Division of the Independent Subway System	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Manhattan Railway 1875–1903. 1903 to Manhattan Railway Division of the Interborough Rapid Transit	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	New York Elevated Railroad 1872–1879. 1879 to Manhattan Railway	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Metropolitan Elevated Railway 1878–1879. 1879 to Manhattan Railway	List of the models Vehicles without photos
×	Suburban Rapid Transit 1886–1891. 1891 to Manhattan Railway	List of the models Vehicles without photos
M	New York City Transit Museum Located in the former Court Street subway station	List of the models Vehicles without photos
M	Railway Preservation Corporation Private group preserving historic subway cars	List of the models Vehicles without photos
	All vehicles in the city	List of the models Vehicles without photos

×

Pelham Park & City Island Railroad 1910 City Island Railroad → 1913–1914 Pelham Park & City Island Railroad

List of the models Vehicles without photos

•

AirTrain JFK Opened in 2003

List of the models Vehicles without photos

•	Michael J. Quill Depot	List of the models Vehicles without photos
○	Grand Avenue Depot	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	LaGuardia Airport · Port Authority of NY & NJ	List of the models Vehicles without photos
•	JFK Airport · Port Authority of NY & NJ	List of the models Vehicles without photos
	All vehicles in the city	List of the models Vehicles without photos

Maps

• Maps and Plans

City Photo Galleries

• Tickets
• Streetcars — Miscellaneous Photos
• Trackless Trolleys — Miscellaneous Photos
• BRT and BMT Streetcar Lines — Miscellaneous Photos
• Third Avenue Railway System — Miscellaneous Photos
• Metropolitan Street Railway — Miscellaneous Photos
• New York Railways Co. — Miscellaneous Photos
• New York & Queens County Railway Co. — Miscellaneous Photos
• Miscellaneous Photos

Rapid Transit

• Subway and Elevated — Historic Photos
• Subway and Elevated — Miscellaneous Photos
• Subway and Elevated — Lines and Stations
• Subway and Elevated — Vehicles
• Subway and Elevated — Yards
• BMT Sea Beach Line Construction
• AirTrain

Railway

• Long Island Railroad

New Photos

All updates

Information

General Note 1. Full stops are used for DD.MM.YYYY format. Slashes are used for MM/DD/YYYY format.

General Note 2. Work and freight cars for certain operators are grouped in the end of their respective lists.
________________________________________________________

Sources

1. Third Avenue Railway system roster of equipment, 1853-1953.
by Seyfried, Vincent F.
Published 1953

2. New York & North Shore Traction Company; trolleys in: Whitestone, Flushing, Bayside, Roslyn, Pt. Washington, Mineola Hicksville.
by Seyfried, Vincent F.
Published 1956

3. New York & Long Island Traction Company.
by Seyfried, Vincent F.
Published 1952

4. The Birney car.
by Cox, Harold E.
Published 1966

5. How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County.
by Cudahy, Brian J.
Published 2002.

6. Manhattan's Lost Streetcars.
by Meyers, Stephen L.
Published 2005.

7. Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island.
by Meyers, Stephen L.
Published 2006.

8. Brooklyn Trolleys.
by Greller, James C. and Watson, Edward B.
Published 1986.

9. The New York and Queens County Railway and Steinway Lines, 1867-1939.
by Seyfried, Vincent F.
Published 1950.

10. Story of the Long Island Electric Railway and the Jamaica Central Railways, 1894-1933.
by Seyfried, Vincent F.
Published 1951.

11. The Public Service Commission's correspondence with the receiver of the Third Avenue Railroad.
by Whitridge, Frederick W.
Published 1910.

12. The first elevated railroads in Manhattan and the Bronx of the city of New York.
by Reeves, William Fullerton.
Published 1936.

13. Report on Interborough rapid transit company.
by Stone & Webster.
Published 1919.

14. Exit, the Sixth Avenue Elevated Line.
by Reeves, William Fullerton.
Published 1940 [Railroadians of America, book 2].

14. The Manhattan and Queens Traction Co.
by Goldsmith, Harold L. and Rugen, William J.
Published 1948 [The Marker, vol. 7, No. 1].

15. Annual reports of various streetcar and rapid transit operators, such as Interborough Rapid Transit, Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit, New York Railways, etc.

16. New York Railways: The Green Line.
Published by N. J. International, 1994.

17. New York Subways: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars.
by Sansone, Gene.
Published 2004.

18. Manhattan Bridge Three-Cent Line.
by Arnoux, George V.
Published 1962 [Electric Railroads, No. 32].

19. From Horsecars to Streamliners: An Illustrated History of the St. Louis Car Company.
by Lind, Alan R.
Published 1978.

20. The street surface railway franchises of New York City.
by Carman, Harry J.
Published 1919.

21. Jamaica Trolleys. The Story of the Jamaica Turnpike and Trolley Line.
by Seyfried, Vincent F.
Published 1953.

22. The cross-island line: The story of the Huntington Railroad.
by Seyfried, Vincent F.
Published 1976.
________________________________________________________

ERA New York Division Bulletin of various years.
________________________________________________________

Отдельно следует упомянуть сайт д-ра Гарольда Кокса (http://streetcars.telcen.com/), источник значительной доли сведений о поставках вагонов, а также крупнейший и наиболее информативный сайт об истории метро Нью-Йорка — http://www.nycsubway.org/
Особая благодарность Джорджу Шиассону мл., который предоставил нам материалы о поступлениях, эксплуатации и списании вагонов метрополитена.

See also:
• Personal site of Dr. Harold E. Cox, a source for car builders order lists — http://streetcars.telcen.com/
• The most informative and complete site about New York City Subway history — http://www.nycsubway.org/

Data on delivery, transfers and scrappings of the certain car types provided by George Chiasson Jr.

Video

• “Bye bye, Birdie!”: прощальные рейсы поездов “Red Bird” в Нью-Йоркском метрополитене
• Метро Нью-Йорка. Могло быть ХУЖЕ. Разруха и самая дорогая станция в Мире
• 130 лет киевскому трамваю
• New York's Metro North Harlem Line 2022
• The New York City Subway Operating in a Snow Storm (B/Q Lines), 2021
• The Subway in Brooklyn, New York 2020 (N-Train)
• The PATH Train 2019 - The Subway Between New York and New Jersey / Метро между Нью-Йорком и Нью-Джерси
• Metro in New York - MTA - Subway - railway - USA - Ubahn - Queens 528
• Subway (metro) in New York. Manhattan to Brooklyn - Ubahn
• Metro New York - Subway - Queens - USA - Ubahn - Földalatti
• Metro (subway) in New York - Riding in Brooklyn- UBahn - Tube
• Metro New York City - Subway - U-bahn - railway - Bahn
• Metro in New York City - Subway - U-bahn - MTA
• Path Train between WTC and New Jersey - New York subway - metro
• Subway (metro) in New York - Ubahn - USA / Метро в Нью-Йорке, США
• Metro in New York - Queens - Subway - Ubahn - USA
• 1911 - A Trip Through New York City (speed corrected w/ added sound)
• New York -- 3rd Avenue Railways
• Brooklyn, NY Trolleys
• BQX - NYC Streetcars: 1956 - Brooklyn's Last Trolleys
• 3RD AVE. RAILWAY SYS TROLLEYS MOVIE FOOTAGE 2

Links

nycsubway.org http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Main_Page   The most informative and complete site about the history of the New York City Subway system
Electric Railroaders’ Association http://erausa.org/   Electric Railroaders’ Association is a non-profit educational organization consisting of people from all walks of life interested in the history and progress of electric railways.

Active Photographers of the City

1st place: retrobus — 157 photos
2nd place: Bobina140 — 23 photos
3rd place: Ревизор движения — 18 photos

Full list of photographers