From track geometry cars to signals to punches to snowblowers, these vital cars and pieces of macheniery keep the system running.
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 R127 EP001 at Pelham Parkway, November 29, 2002 |  R127 EP001 at Pelham Parkway, November 29, 2002 |  R127 EP002 at Pelham Parkway, November 29, 2002 |
 R127 EP008 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |  R127 EP010 at Queens Plaza, December 16, 2007 |  R127 EP010 interior |
 R134 EP011. The R127 and R134 cars, manufactured by Kawasaki, are work motors, often used on garbage trains. This one is doing just that in the early morning hours of June 18, 2001 on the Corona Line. It is sitting at the 61st Street-Woodside Station. |  R134 EP013 at Corona Yard, December 28, 2001 |  R134 EP014 at 207th Street Yard, May 26, 2002 |
 R134 EP011 at Corona Yard, August 5, 2002 | ||
 Home signal (also called a homeball). The upper signal head indicates what the train should do like an automatic signal (proceed, proceed and expect the next signal to be red, or stop and stay as indicated by the text color). This automatic signal is located at the north end of the Middletown Road Pelham Line station on the Pelham Bay Bound track. (The train in the distance is an R142A) |  Home signal (also called a homeball). The upper signal head indicates what the train should do like an automatic signal (proceed, proceed and expect the next signal to be red, or stop and stay as indicated by the text color). The lower signal tells the train what route it will be taking on the switching track just ahead (stay straight, take diverging route, or stop and stay as indicated by the text color, the latter only shows when the top signal is red). This signal is located at the northern end of the 96th Street/Broadway IRT station. |  New signal at Simpson Street/Westchester Avenue station in the Bronx |
 Typical turnstile. | ||
 MetroCard Iron Maiden at 61st Street-Woodside. These only accept Metrocards for entry and can be used to exit by all. |  Diesel Locomotive R77 891 at Corona Yard, December 28, 2001. |  Part of a worktrain passing through 51st Street/Lexington Avenue Station, September 29, 2001 |
 Diesel Locomotive R52 076 passing through 51st Street/Lexington Avenue Station, September 29, 2001 |  Diesel Locomotive R52 076 passing through 51st Street/Lexington Avenue Station, September 29, 2001 |  Diesel Locomotive R47 70 passing through Broadway Junction Station, December 28, 2001 |
Diesel Locomotive R47 70 passing through Broadway Junction Station, December 28, 2001 |  Diesel Locomotive R37 50 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |  Diesel Locomotive R77 901 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |
 Diesel Locomotive R47 63 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |  Diesel Locomotive R77-E E08 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |  Diesel Locomotive R77 898 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |
Diesel Locomotive R77 898 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |  Diesel Locomotive R37 50 in 38th Street Yard, November 7, 2004 |  R40 4376 with R77 894 (left) at Cortelyou Road, November 26, 2004 |
 R40 4212 with R77 894 (right) at Cortelyou Road, November 26, 2004 |  R77 894 at Cortelyou Road, November 26, 2004 |  Diesel Locomotive R37 053 entering the lower level of 9th Avenue in Brooklyn, photo taken from 9th Avenue upper level on June 27, 2003 |
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