First Subway Ride - Kids' Educational Book About NYC Subway Adventure | Perfect for Children's First Train Experience & Urban Exploration

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.