(a) General rule.--The authority shall have power to purchase or otherwise acquire the ownership or use of or access to equipment, such as cars, trolley buses, street cars, buses, monorails, railroad motive power, trains, railroad passenger cars and equipment, subway passenger cars and equipment, elevated passenger or passenger and rail rolling stock, self-propelled and gallery cars, locomotives, rails, lines, poles and wires, as well as any equipment necessary for the improvement of or overhaul of any of the foregoing, and any other equipment which, in the judgment of the authority, may be useful in the operation of a transportation system. The authority shall have the power to execute agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates in a form satisfactory to the authority to effect the purchase or acquisition and may dispose of such equipment trust certificates, provided that the certificates shall be offered for sale in a manner similar to that provided for the sale of bonds in this chapter. All money required to be paid by the authority under the provisions of the agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates shall be payable solely from the revenue or income to be derived from the transportation system and from grants and loans as provided elsewhere in this chapter. Payment for the equipment or rentals therefor may be made in installments and the deferred installments may be evidenced by equipment trust certificates payable solely from such revenue, income, grants or loans and title to the equipment shall not vest in the authority until the equipment trust certificates are paid.

(b) Trustee.--The agreement to purchase may direct the vendor to sell and assign the equipment to a bank, bank and trust company or trust company duly authorized to transact business in this Commonwealth as trustee for the benefit and security of the equipment trust certificates and may direct the trustee to deliver the equipment to one or more designated officers of the authority and may authorize the trustee simultaneously therewith to execute and deliver a lease of the equipment to the authority.

(c) Authorization and acknowledgment.--The agreements and leases shall be duly acknowledged before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds and in the form required for acknowledgments of deeds, and such agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates shall be authorized by resolution of the board and shall contain such covenants, conditions and provisions as may be deemed necessary or appropriate to insure the payment of the equipment trust certificates from the revenue or income to be derived from the transportation system.

(d) Provisions of agreements.--The covenants, conditions and provisions of the agreements, leases and equipment trust certificates shall not conflict with any of the provisions of any trust indenture securing the payment of bonds of the authority.

(e) Filing.--An executed copy of each agreement and lease shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth who shall be entitled to receive $1 for each copy filed. This filing shall constitute notice to any subsequent judgment creditor or any subsequent purchaser. Each vehicle so purchased and leased shall have the name of the owner and lessor plainly marked upon both sides thereof, followed by the words "Owner and Lessor."