First Subway Ride MD2025 "As one conductor put it:

"As one conductor put it: I've held babies for passengers

located on Broadway at between West 44th and 45th streets

The building was called Times Tower and at 375 feet the gothic fortress was the second-tallest building in the world

Dimensions listed above indicate paper size

First Subway Ride MD2025 "As one conductor put it:Officials and notables ride a flatcar with white sheeting covering the wood front railing as the city's first subway riders boarded the IRT for Interborough Rapid Transit at the City Hall Station, October 27, 1904. Major George B. McClellan, son of the Civil War general who was dismissed by President Lincoln, is in the first row on the far right.