Car Equipment

The Lonto-Watson collection contains albums, scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, documents, ephemera, and books related to New York City transportation such as horse cars, cable cars, trolleys, elevated railroads, and subways, as well as transportation systems domestic and foreign, and New York City architecture.

Assorted drawings, maps, documents, photographs and signage created by or pertaining to the MTA, its predecessor agencies and various railroads, collected by or donated to members of the Electric Railroaders’ Association and stored in that association’s Frank Julian Sprague Memorial Library, located in Grand Central Terminal from the early 1980s until 2014.