The 2025 Edition is now shipping!
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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AustraliaTracks of New York City
Gave this book to a train fan for christmas, absolutely loved it. Thank you.
United StatesExcellent update and a wonderful souvenir of New York for any train enthusiast! The PDFs are a wonderful addition!
United StatesAnother great edition
For aficionados, of New York's subways and related rail transportation network , this 2025 edition is another brilliant product of incredibly hard work and dedication. I have purchased every edition from the very first one. I cannot overstate the everyone should purchase a copy and enjoy what Peter has so wonderfully done.
United States United StatesAn indispensable resource for anyone who loves the Subway
Each year adds a little more to this and each year is a little different. I keep the paper at home and the PDF on my phone, just in case I see something interesting on a ride that I don't understand.