I am abashed. I should have thought that Billy Strayhorn wrote "Take the A Train" in 1941. GAT George A. Thompson Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately. ----- Original Message ----- From: [log in to unmask] Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:28 am Subject: Underground Sidewalks of New York > In a message dated 2/22/05 10:13:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > > I don't think that the subway lines got alphabetic designations > until > > well after WWII. > > George, you're kiddin' me! You still reading those darned 19th > century > newspapers? Hey when you get up to 1932, when the IND opened, you > will find the > first letter designations, beginning with the first letter of the > alphabet, > associated with the IND. Hence, the "A" train, the major express > route on the > line. > > sign me, your admirer, Christopher Gray aka Billy Strayhorn >