Despite missing out on the then fastest time, Samson's attempt was to act as the inspiration for many similar subway racing attempts.
The objective of the Subway Challenge is to navigate the entire New York City Subway system in the shortest time possible.
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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".
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