Temporarily sold out. The book will be reprinted by mid-February,
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. Also, the PDF file has 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.
Economy shipping of the printed book is available for customers in the USA. Delivery times may be longer than Priority Mail (up to 10 days is possible), but for shipping to NYC and environs it's usually about 3 days. Note: UPS shipping is uninsured. If you choose UPS and your package is damaged in transit it will not be replaced. This is a result of a change to UPS insurance terms that excludes shipments of poly bag merchandise.
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United StatesWonderful excellent reading and exploring
One of the best books that I’ve ever bought. Never ending source of fascination and detail. Continuing source of detail and information. Amazing resource
Great reference. Lot of fun for subway and train buffs.
FranceExcellent
Envoi rapide et soigné vers la France. Un magnifique ouvrage et je peux que remercier et féliciter l'auteur ! Un grand bravo et un grand merci.
United StatesA NYC Subway afficianado's dream
A subway lover, I'd always wanted to treat myself to a copy of this and finally took the plunge (print and pdf version.) The quality of the print version is good, and the spiral binding is actually helpful in being able to view the maps. The content is beyond superb in its completeness, including both historical data as well as even including plans that never came to fruition! Any subway, train, urban transit lover will enjoy this. Kudos.
United StatesExcellent Product. Love It!
As always its a great book. The physical version is high-quality and well printed. It was shipped quickly and packaged very well. The digital version is very, very sharp with great detail.