Includes 12 easy-to-assemble punch-out train cars that are modeled after the historic trains in the collection of the New York Transit Museum.

Traces the development of the subway from its inception to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life - Explores how it has been represented

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction of the competing lines and their unification *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further

"New York wouldn't be New York without the subway. This one-time engineering marvel that united and expanded the city has been a cultural touchstone for the las

But as it is in no other city on earth, the subway of New York is intimately woven into the fabric and identity of the city itself.