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The New York subway : its construction and equipment : Interborough Rapid Transit, 1904 / with an introduction by Brian J. Cudahy.
- Title
- The New York subway : its construction and equipment : Interborough Rapid Transit, 1904 / with an introduction by Brian J. Cudahy.
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2004.
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- Description
- 150 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- When the first cars of New York's new underground railroad left City Hall station on October 27, 1904, they were the property of a private firm called the Interborough Rapid Transit, running on public tracks. The IRT realized what seemed an impossible dream for more than 30 years - financing, designing, and building an underground railroad that ran from lower Manhattan right to the Bronx. Ground was broken in 1900; four years later, New Yorkers would ride uptown and down on the rapid transit railroad they called "the subway." sSo spectacular was the achievement, and so proud was the IRT, that the company published this testament to the massive public work it had just completed. Originally printed in a larger, tabloid-size format, this remarkable book is a detailed, lavishly illustrated account of the building of the first subway.
- Alternative Title
- Interborough Rapid Transit, 1904
- Subject
- Subways > New York
- Note
- Originally published: Interborough rapid transit : the New York subway, its construction and equipment / Interborough Rapid Transit Company. New York : Interborough Rapid Transit Co., 1904.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The route of the road; passenger stations and tracks -- Types and methods of construction -- Power house building -- Power plant from coal pile to shafts of engines and turbines -- System of electrical supply -- Electrical equipment of cars -- Lighting system for passenger stations and tunnel -- Rolling stock : cars, trucks, etc. -- Signal system -- Subway drainage -- Repair and inspection shed -- Sub-contractors.
- ISBN
- 0823224015 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004053254
- OCLC
- 55800782
- SCSB-11875432
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library