1904 NYC 1st day subway ticket

[steve B]

Originally Posted by rholmes

First subway what, Steve? Series?

Here's a scan of the ticket, for anyone curious. The 4,185th ticket sold for the NYC subway. So far no-one I've spoken to about it, including a couple of older dealers in New York ephemera, has ever seen one this early sold publicly. It does say on the back of the ticket that you were supposed to "drop in gate box before entering train," so my guess is only a few sneaky people wanting a souvenir kept them. As I said in my earlier post, the Museum of the City of New York has ticket #1, and the New York Historical Society has one numbered 13-thousand-something.

Very nice ticket!

The first subway there may not be counted by some, as it was a short demonstration line built in 1870. But it was underground, was a railroad, and ran for about 3 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

http://www.rosetibayan.com/first-subway/

[The-Cardfather]

For those of you who really like old NYC subway-related trains, advertisements, vending machines, etc.; I would highly recommend a trip to the NYC Transit Museum located in Downtown Brooklyn, NY.

I haven't been there in about 5 years, so I'm overdue for a return visit.

Below is the link to their website.

https://www.nytransitmuseum.org/visit/