The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
This is on the West End Line, I think the northbound platform, looking south, with Sea Bach downstairs, and the Lion clinging to the passenger's package.
LION is actually inspecting the window glazing before the train departs.
Yup. The LION is on the window frame.
The LIONS may be easy to find, but can you find ALL of them? How many are there?
ROAR
11?
I've also got eleven, and no operable windshield wiper
CSSHEGEWISCH I've also got eleven, and no operable windshield wiper
11 appears to be correct. I *thought* I put 12 in there, but I musta been mistooken.
I am shooting through the storm door, the motorman sits to my right. Him does have a windoshield viper what wroks.
In any case, I think we are back at the Ninth Avenue Station looking west. Did you take the picture when the M ran to that station and reversed in the center track, or was the then B, now D switched to the center track for some reason?
LIONS on the Sea Beach
Now there are two. Have they been
breeding?
WHAT WAS GOING ON?
daveklepper WHAT WAS GOING ON?
They are getting ready to do major renovations to the Sea Beach Line. As you know it is four tracks, the outside tracks are in service, the express tracks gennerally are not. The southbound express track has no third rail and no track connections to the railroad. They are building a Temporary platform over that track and will take the local tracks out of service for repairs to tracks and platforms.
single-track operation on the northboiund express track only?
There are no express trains on the Sea Beach, for the simple reason that there are no express stops. Sone one of the middle tracks was left operable, and the other decomissioned.
OK. So the soiuthbouind express strack and local track are both covered by platform extensions, and the operable northbound express track is used as the southbound track, with the northbound local track still in service. Then your posting makes sense. When the northbound local track needs service, they will cover it and use the express track, with the soiuthbound local track already restored to service.
As far as I know the only revenue use of the Sea Beach express tracks for regular passenger service was the Sunny Summer Sunday Franklin - Coney Island - Chambers Street white dot on the front left panograph gate service, which I rode once. It was discontinued, I believe, when the D took over the Culver to run to Coney Island, and the TA wanted that to be the prime CI - Manahtan route. Other than that, the center tracks were used for freight, car storage, and testing. The Sea Beach line had three freight sidings off the northbound local track, and I believe you can see in the concret wall where they were. They were equipped with trolley wire. At one time the track that continued west from the incline to the 4th Avenue subway did connect with the Bay Ridge LIRR-NYNH&H carfloat yard, but by the time I WAs able to railfan the subway, as a teenager, the freight interchange was exlusively at Avenue H off the Macdonald Avenue streetcar tracks (remember, once upon a time a steam railroad, then elevated gate cars on the surface), so the freight to and from these sidings had to be routed via C.I. yard. This was done until well after WWII.
Correction, by exclusively, I should have qualified for South Brooklyn Railway freight to or from LIRR. PRR, and NYNH&H points, using the LIRR Bay Ridge branch with its LIRR Peddler and many NYNH&H thru freights. Other freight was interchanged with New York Dock at 36th Street and 2nd or 3rd Avenue, via tracks running west of the West End and Culver inclne to the 4th Avenue subway for car floating to CNJ, DL&W, NYCentral, Erie, SuziQ, etc.
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