Rotary converters were still used for the West Side IRT subway in Manhattan into the late 1960s, and possibly some years later.
Murchison died suddenly, at 11:45 p.m. on Dec. 15, 1938, "as he was emerging from the I.R.T. station in Grand Central Terminal", the New York Times reported.
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, a defunct company that provided subway service in New York City from 1904–1940
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On May 30, 1940, two days before the IRT, BMT, and IND were unified in 1940, Herman Rinke, an electric-railroad buff, became the first person to tour the entire system on a single 5-cent fare, doing it purely as a "sentimental gesture".