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3 unusual facts about Interborough Rapid Transit Company


Dynamo

Rotary converters were still used for the West Side IRT subway in Manhattan into the late 1960s, and possibly some years later.

Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison

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.

New York IRT

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, a defunct company that provided subway service in New York City from 1904–1940


Subway Challenge

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".


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