Snowing outside it might be. LION brings his train into the tunnel at Union Square.
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Lion,
I see um,I see um..You better see If the abbot can come up,with some coin,to fix that sky light though,
Cheers,
Frank
Is no skylight in library building.
LION uses fiberglass insulation for station platforms. Kinda it curved, no big deal once I glue it down, but it was standing on its side, and each time the train passed, it scraped the platform bottom...
Aw heck, just watch it for your self. (5:16 into the video)
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TRAIN DANDRUFF!
Batman recommend Head and Shoulders for Subway cars.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
That was pretty good,,Those cars must have some weight to them,for it looked like that insulation,didn't bother them at all. I did sort of feel like I was on a roller coaster ride though,I kept waiting to climb up a hill.
LION uses printer's slugs for weight. They are glued to the bottom of the car, so I can add or remove weight without opening the car. If you do not have printer's slugs, maybe you can find an old old time printer that still may have some. They are alas, no longer made. A bygone era. You may be able to get some Linotype slugs, but they are type high and a bit to wide for under the car like that.
You guys do remember hand set lead type, and the California Job Case, yes?
Lion, that was a fun ride. Why is the guy in the movie wearing the hi-vis safety vest?
thanks and regards, Peter
HO-Velo Lion, that was a fun ride. Why is the guy in the movie wearing the hi-vis safety vest? thanks and regards, Peter
NYCT Policy. That is a tower operator, if he steps out of the tower he must be in correct equipment.
Most NYCT employees who work anywhere near the tracks must wear them. They no longer must wear them while operating a train, only if they must step down to the tracks.
The MONEY TRAIN (official the revenue collection train) returns from its appointed rounds.
LION had to use up those old passenger cars somehow.
I'm a little bit rushed here, so I'll just post this one. Gotta catch a train.
Here is a friend that I spent quite some time making, it is the first part of the new layout to be built, and one of the first parts to be ripped out. It is New York Penn Station (if you forget about the Grand Central -like tracks that end at the platform.) The station concourse was paved with floor tiles. What the heck, a floor is a floor, right? To day the yet unfinished 34th Street Subway Station occupies this place on the layout, and NYP will be built as a static display in the location now occupied byt that stack of blue foam.
The buildings are not there.They were put there while the deck where they are supposed to be was opened up for some work. The place where they sit in this photo now holds the loop track from Canal Street to South Ferry. Eventually the street will cover that track and there will be buildings under the Smith-9th Street track directly above the buildings, as per the prototype. The buildings were there first, the IND built their line right over the top of 3 and 4 story buildings. The only elevated line purpose built by the IND: building a subway under the canal proved to be a non-option for them.
Behind the buildings you can see the "secret tunnel" part of the helix between the middle level and the lower level. That route departs the Smith 9th Street station to the right, goes through the Lenox Avenue station (right to left) on the other side of the table and then passes through the secret tunnel left to right before passing through the Nevins Street station directly below the Lenox station. where it joins the main line at the Chambers Street station on the express tracks. That puts it on the same level that is now occupied by the South Ferry station, and where these buildings are here shown.
That is a BIG level change for 2 3/4 turns of the helix, but then the helix is 18 feet long and 6 feet wide.
HO-Velo Why is the guy in the movie wearing the hi-vis safety vest? thanks and regards, Peter
Same reason the rest of us wear those silly striped engineer's hats when we run our choo-choos.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Brother LION;I am Really Enjoying your creative shots of your Excellent Commuter Layout."Chad, Him Likes LIONS Purrrdy Trains!!!"Thanks for Sharing!!!!
The downtown express pauses at the Union Square Station, while the LION inspects the track relays at the end of the platform. These relays in response to a timer in the switch tower will release the train to continue its journey to the next station. If the next station is occupied by a train, this train would face a red signal, and the relay would not be allowed to release the train.
Trains are operated by LPPs in the cab of each train, and are not controlled by the 1:1 scale monster in the control tower.
Oh, Oh,
The Inspector,Mini Lion,does not have His,safety vest on. Or His hard hat.
Lion .... I saw a potential idea for a scene on your layout. Look at Bear's post in WPF of a retired passenger car being used at a training center for firefighters. ....
Cheers!...... I mean Roar!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Heartland Division CB&QLion .... I saw a potential idea for a scene on your layout. Look at Bear's post in WPF of a retired passenger car being used at a training center for firefighters. ....
Eh?
Been there done that, got a car laid up in the yard...
That "Roosevelt Car" is a complete bogus myth. It is an MNCR MOW car and it contains mostly cables and other such wayside junk as may be needed in the GCT tunnels for whatever unforeseen circumstances my be foreseen.
LION has seen photos posted by MNCR engineer.
The ''Roosevelt Car'', is not a myth. It just was not a subway car. Now that is probably the myth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan_Railcar
The "Roosevelt Car" is not a myth, the assertion that the car parked in GCT is actually that car *is* a MYTH!
Why are the upright support girders numbered?
Thanks and regards, Peter
HO-Velo Lion, Why are the upright support girders numbered? Thanks and regards, Peter
Station identification. 42 = 42nd St. station.
The uprights in the station are the station name.
Or as they used to look:
Here is a much older photo. I do not have much to show for my Coney Island stop yet, much less the shops and back buildings. Now imagine this car in the shop at Coney Island. It has been lifted off of the trucks by a crane and is set on these stands for safe working around. The trucks have been rolled away for service and/or replacement. All that is left for me to do is to build the rest of the shop. Maybe I should start with the innards, and once they are credible, I can build a brick building around them. The car is a KTM product, a prototype of a Japanese commuter train which NEVER ran well -- I bought it in the 1960s and I have not the skill to repair them. It is painted in the colors of my previous layout. My fleet of these things will look just fine filling up the yard tracks at Coney Island.
Oh, yeah... The photo: