By Y.M. Lowy

A new MTA photography exhibit is giving New Yorkers a behind-the-scenes look at the workers and facilities that keep the transit system running. 

The exhibit, titled In Service: MTA Photographs by Christopher Payne, features 50 photographs taken inside MTA maintenance shops and manufacturing facilities, including locations where subway cars, buses and other equipment are built and repaired.

The photos show the specialized work done by welders, machinists, electricians and other workers who maintain the system. Some of the photographs were taken at MTA facilities in New York, while others show the manufacturing of new subway cars and buses at facilities across the country.

The photographs will be displayed for the next six months in all 52 of the MTA’s decommissioned advertising lightboxes at 42nd Street-Bryant Park, Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center, Bowling Green, Grand Central Terminal and Grand Central Madison.

photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA