What's New for 2025: MULTIPLE COVERS! There are so many excellent photos submitted for the photo contest every year, and many runners-up still deserve to grace these covers. For the first time, multiple front and rear covers are available for this year's book. This is an experiment, and if it's successful, it will be repeated until the best of the previous contest submissions images have been exhausted. NOTE: The contents of the book are otherwise identical; it's just the cover images that are different. The PDF file contains all the cover images for the year.
On the inside, most of the system was redrawn from the ground up to be closer to geographic reality and to use more consistent formatting. Over 1000 hours of work went into the new maps, and doing this also allowed for the creation of a 4-page map index.
PDF edition users can link forward and backward to the index, from page to page, and from view to view. Since every print edition customer is entitled to a free PDF version, it was necessary to make that format a bit more usable. Note that the interactive features have only been tested in Adobe Reader and Foxit. They have not been tested in any other e-reader or PDF reading software, and the interactive features will not work on the Kindle platform, but the file will display just fine.
Station numbers are also new in 2025, along with a six-page index of stations at the back of the book, as well as web links to Wikipedia for every station, past and present. A few more interlocking closeups were added for 2025, and several pages were redrawn to use the new map format, most notably in south Brooklyn.
As always, the book depicts every track (with track numbers), every yard, every station, every chaining line and zero point, and and most (if not all) mainline diverging route home signals and their indications. The book also encompasses the latest capital plan items, signal changes and track/signal renewal projects. As with past editions, Grand Central, the Park Avenue tunnels, Penn Station, PATH, and the Staten Island Railway track maps are also included. Current fleet data and train service requirements have also been updated.
Note that the PDF version is intended strictly for on-screen viewing and is not printable.
CanadaGreat book, gets better every year
Each annual edition of this book improves over the previous edition. I look forward each fall to the invitation to order the new book. Careful research, beautiful graphics, well-written explanatory text, everything conduces to a peak experience. Keep up the good work!
United StatesAnother Amazing Edition
As in previous years, the 2025 edition of Tracks of the New York City Subway simply is THE yearbook for MTA Subway fans. It just keeps getting more and more comprehensive, with up to date current info as well as historical data. The PDF version is great because it can be viewed easily on my phone, my iPad and my PC. If you love the NYC subway, this is a mandatory item.