An IRT sign was recently restored in Penn Station, built originally as an express station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
While modern day straphangers enjoy amenities that early riders could only dream of, there are some vintage subway features we wish would make a comeback.
August Belmont Jr., financier for the first subway line in NYC, once had an opulent private train car. It survives at the Shoreline Trolley Museum in Connecticut