The Entire History of the NYC Shuttle

From well before the beginning of the NYC subway in 1904 to the present day, this is the most comprehensive history of the 42nd street shuttle on YouTube. This project was almost six months in the making (I started early October 2022), mostly because of other conflicting video projects.

I hope you find this video informative, thank you so much for watching. If you have any corrections, please comment them below and I will make updates to the description and/or pinned comment.

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Intro music - "waves" by atlas:   / waves  

Timestamps:
0:00 Early Subway History
1:56 Shuttle Opening
3:15 Other Alternatives?
4:36 Second Alternative
5:31 ATO!
6:12 The Sad Stuff...
6:45 TRIVIA!!
8:12 Rolling Stock + Crew
8:48 Ending

CORRECTIONS:
The original subway line went from City Hall to 145 St, not 151. Credit: https://www.ascemetsection.org/commit...

SOURCES:
Vanshnookenraggen made a track map which I used multiple times in the video, please check it out.
- https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_in...

While I tried not to base most of the research off of Wikipedia, I used it to chronologize the ideas and figure out more topics to read about. I know I cite Wikipedia a lot in the credits but I highly suggest you also use the further reading and references they provide (this was the way I got a lot of the info).

1. Omnibus Details - https://www.villagepreservation.org/2... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseca...
2. Second Ave El - https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_2n...
3. NYT El Effects: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...
4. IRT original contract: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_St... - full transparency I don't remember where I found this originally but I will update the link later.
5. Transit Museum FB Post - https://www.facebook.com/nytransitmus...
6. Map of 1906 Subway (w/o annotations) https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?/...
7. Dual Contracts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_Co...
- an extra source: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...
8. NYT Article: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/22/ar...
9. Opening of NYC subway image: https://time.com/3534565/new-york-cit... (I am not sure who was the original source)
10. Photo Credit: https://untappedcities.com/
11. Vanshnookenraggen Track Map! this is art - https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_in...
12. NYT article on moving sidewalk: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...
13. A 50 page report on sidewalks https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...
14. Regular moving sidewalk https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
15. NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/1922/01/29/ar...
16. Goodyear plans shuttle replacement: https://www.6sqft.com/goodyear-tires-...
17. Track layout info, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_St... , https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/IRT_Ti...
18. Relay information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_St...
19. First crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_St...
20. Same track layout articles as #17
21. Shuttle advertisement costs: https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20... , https://untappedcities.com/2014/03/11...
22. Same track layout articles as #17 and #20, using Wikipedia track layout image.
23. DJ Hammers pre-reconstruction shuttle video:    • ⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Last Run and Abandonment of Trac...  
24. SMEE fleet on NYC subway wiki: https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_IR...)

Notable image credit:
Intro 1931 NYC Graphic - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
(36 seconds in) NY and Harlem Railroad + Horse Image https://www.iridetheharlemline.com/wp...
(44 seconds in) Elevated Car Image - https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Fifty_...)

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