Best of Metro Transit Archives (2016 Edition)



Hello everyone:

It's time again to welcome a new year and look back on the previous one. For Metro Transit Archives, 2016 was a slow year, travel wise, something that will be rectified in 2017. During the year,  improvements on camera equipment and an improved, patient and planning eye, captured some great images of transportation in all four seasons.

Below are what is considered the top twenty photos taken in 2016. Enjoy

1) Holiday fun in New York with iconic GM Fishbowl #5227 in Times Square

 
2) A well-timed photo of a WMATA 7000 series railcar in Alexandria, Virginia 

 
3) Maximum turn by SEPTA Novabus #7464 in Center City Philadelphia

 
4) The beginning of 30 inches of snow captured by MTA Maryland New Flyer #04106

 
5) MTA Bus New Flyer Xcelsior in its bright new wrap in Jamaica, Queens, New York

 
6) DC Circulator New Flyer Xcelsior with flags flying in Downtown Washington DC


7) Now arriving...SEPTA Regional Rail to Philadelphia at Wissahickon Station

 
8) MTA Maryland Budd Subway car in Downtown Baltimore

 
9) Shuttle duty for Novabus #8284 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

 
10) Puff, puff, gas for WMATA Orion VII CNG #2508 at Farragut Square in Washington, DC
  
11) A pair of SEPTA Hybrids outside City Hall in Center City, Philadelphia


 12) Wrapped in MTA Maryland's soon to be new system, BaltimoreLink, is 13049 in Parkvile, Maryland

 
13) Architecture and Transportation mix in Brooklyn, New York

 
14) Underground fun with WMATA in Washington, DC

 
15) More underground fun, this time with SEPTA in Philadelphia

 
 16) Last of a dying breed in 9920, retired soon after this photo taken in Cedonia

 
17) NYC Subway R160 rolling stock in Queens

 
18) Hanging on is this Orion V, soon to be replaced by a more modern Xcelsior moder
  
19) Streetcar and subway meet at 30th Street Station in University City, Philadelphia

 
20) Perfectly paused MTA Maryland New Flyer artic #08026 in Northwest Baltimore
 


Happy New Year from Metro Transit Archives!!



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