New York Transit MuseumHappy #InternationalWomensDay! Today, we're celebrating Marion McAllister, the first woman train operator in the #NYCsubway system!
These photographs accompanied a 1973 press release announcing McAllister’s historic entry into motorman training (at the time, the position was still known as “motorman").
The press release notes that during McAllister's training, she would learn to manage “the sophisticated equipment found on the new R44 subway cars.” It also mentions that when McAllister took the test to become a motorman, she scored 19th in a field of over a thousand male applicants.
McAllister told the @[email protected], “At first I thought I couldn’t take it underground, but now I don’t think there’s anything better. There’s always something to learn. You never get bored.”
