 On May 30, 1940, two days before the IRT, BMT, and IND were unified, Herman Rinke, an electric-railroad buff, became the first person to tour the entire system on a single 5-cent fare, doing it purely as a "sentimental gesture".Rinke rode the system for some 25 hours.Since then, more than 70 others – supposedly recorded in an unofficial file in the MTA Public Relations Department – rode the entire system.