[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #4292, aired 2003-04-08 [PAR] The first comprehensive guide to tea drinking was written by Lu Yu of this country 
in the 8th ... The IRT operated the first ones of these in NYC back in 1904... [DOC] [TLE] New York City Subway - Wikipedia [PAR] The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New 
York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of 
the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Opened in 1904, the New 
York City Subway is one of the world's oldest .... The first underground line of the 
subway opened on October 27, 1904,... [DOC] [TLE] History of the New York City Subway - Wikipedia [PAR] The first underground line of the New York City Subway opened on October 27, 
1904, almost ... The city was closely involved: all lines built for the IRT and most 
other lines ... The first line of the city-owned and operated Independent Subway 
System .... (Passengers would simply ride out and back, to see what the 
proposed... [DOC] [TLE] New York City subway opens - Oct 27, 1904 - HISTORY.com [PAR] On this day in History, New York City subway opens on Oct 27, 1904. ... The first 
line, operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), traveled ... No 
matter how crowded or dirty, the subway is one New York City institution few New 
... Union troops are turned back when they try to cut the last railroad supplying the
... [DOC] [TLE] www.nycsubway.org: The New York Subway Souvenir (1904) [PAR] This company built the first subway in New York City for local traffic, the present ... 
These were the questions asked and vaguely answered until one man, more ... 
be willing to enter into a contract for its continued operation under a rental which 
..... hours of five and six carry these same 100,000 persons back to their homes. [DOC] [TLE] "McClellan Motorman of First Subway Train" (1904) - NYCSubway.org [PAR] And stay he did, running the train to One Hundred and Third Street and ... the 
time, with one hand on the emergency brake and another ready to operate the 
whistle, ... the first train on the Rapid Transit Railroad from the City Hall station, 
New York, .... After a wait necessary for switching back the train started down 
town on the... [DOC] [TLE] www.nycsubway.org: Historical Maps [PAR] Our first map is a scan of a USGS survey map of southern Brooklyn, ... The 1904 
New York Subway Souvenir publication included a Map and ... transit routes 
proposed by the Metropolitan interests to be operated under a free .... Michael 
Calcagno drew these three schematic track maps showing the trackage of the 
IRT, BMT,... [DOC] [TLE] www.nycsubway.org: Our Subway Open: 150,000 Try It (1904) [PAR] The New York Times  Friday, October 28th, 1904 ... so that the first train had 
hardly turned back to make the run down to City Hall before another train passed 
it. ... Every noise-making instrument known to election night was in operation, and 
a ... Yet even on one of these was noted that familiar sight, a young man with his
... [DOC] [TLE] www.nycsubway.org: New York's Subway In Operation (1904) [PAR] "New York must have a big subcellar," observes the Man from Montana, "to hold 
... and the guard closes the door behind us by throwing back a lever on the 
platform. ... gradually to the elevated lines until only these are in operation 
underground. .... tunnel to One Hundred and Ninety-first Street and beyond along 
an elevated... [DOC] [TLE] www.nycsubway.org: The First Subway [PAR] On October 27, 1904, the first IRT subway line opened, and the city would never 
be the same. ... Day One on the IRT: Press Coverage of the Opening of the 
Subway ... A scholarly look back at the impact of the IRT on New York City, 
prepared by the ... Bulletin offers a retrospective of the first ten years of subway 
operation. [DOC] [TLE] THE

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