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LIONS are coming back again

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LIONS are coming back again
Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 3:29 PM

Last year I did not get a chance to get into the city, but I have just finished recataloging the photos that I do have, so... here are photos, and yes, there is a little LION in the frame.

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by Wizlish on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 5:49 PM

Motorman's cab?

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Posted by Firelock76 on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 6:03 PM

Welcome back Brother Lion!  Oh, the little lion's on the closest signal stand.

And don't spend ALL your time on the "Model Railroader" site, we missed you over here!

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Posted by NorthWest on Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:19 PM

Lion, very glad to see you back!

He's sitting on something next to the interlocking tower.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 1:57 PM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:06 PM

BroadwayLion

 

Did he get his tongue stuck to the cold steel guard rail?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 2:15 PM

No, LION would not be in a dangerous place.

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

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Posted by NorthWest on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 8:31 PM

I'm not sure the tree above the train at right is much safer though. Lion must be getting quite a breeze.

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Posted by gardendance on Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:24 AM

I've long suffered in silence, but no more. When you mention that there is a lion in your photos does that really mean that it's possible for a diligent viewer actually to discern a lion, presumably a doll or figurine, not a live person eating able lion, which you have placed in the camera's view?

All the times I've seen your posts with photos I have yet even to imagine that I there's a lion in them, and so frustrated have I been that I usually don't bother to read your posts, since I feel you intend them only for those few who are in the know about your inside joke.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:36 AM

Lion is watching from the trees above and to the right of the Q train going away from the photographer.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:46 AM

gardendance
I've long suffered in silence, but no more. When you mention that there is a lion in your photos does that really mean that it's possible for a diligent viewer actually to discern a lion, presumably a doll or figurine, not a live person eating able lion, which you have placed in the camera's view?

Yes, there *is* a LION, a stuffed LION to be sure somewhere in the frame. He has been reduced in size to about 8 pixels. Click on the photo to get a larger view. In the latest photo him is in a tree directly above the (Q) on the southbound train (the closest train) Him is about the size of the leafs and is hidding in a little cleft formed by the trees.

Look Closely, you will find the LION, and then know at least, what you are looking for.

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 8, 2015 9:54 AM

 

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, January 8, 2015 9:59 AM

Lion is watching from in front of the dormer of the house overlooking the subway.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, January 9, 2015 6:38 AM

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by gardendance on Friday, January 9, 2015 8:39 AM

If I tried really hard I sometimes could just barely discern yellow blobs somewhere in your photos, but never anything that looked like a lion. I guess my problem was I didn't know you were photshopping them, I thought you'd put the doll somewhere in a non-tresspassing place in the real world.

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Posted by MidlandMike on Friday, January 9, 2015 7:59 PM

Welcome back Lion.  In the past, people much more familiar with NYCT (I lived in the suburbs) would guess at the photo locations, and you would confirm them.  Are you going to let us know the locations?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 10, 2015 6:46 AM

Well, it was on the Brighton Line, It may have been Cortelyou Road (since Newkirk has island platforms, and Avenue H heads south on an embankment), but it is an older picture so I do not really remember. It must have been in the Cortelyou Road folder. Parkside, Prospect, Newkirk and Avenue H are the only Bighton line places where the LION has folders for the photos of him.

HERE is LION...

If it is any consolation to you, the guys at SubChat missed this one too.

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 10, 2015 9:54 AM

da LION is waiting for da TRAIN...

ROAR

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Posted by NorthWest on Saturday, January 10, 2015 10:19 PM

...by the base of the first tree on the left that is not cut off by the frame.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 11, 2015 9:05 AM

Yup... There is the LION, that one is Aslan.

 

ROAR

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 11, 2015 10:50 AM

Bushy LION is in this photo. I did not make him so small, so he should be easier to find.

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by NorthWest on Sunday, January 11, 2015 9:56 PM

On top of the billboard at right.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, January 12, 2015 9:24 AM

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, January 12, 2015 10:00 AM

I couldn't find LION but I did find it interesting to note how close the track trip is located to the bumping post.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, January 12, 2015 10:06 AM

That is the final track trip, and is welded in place. There are at least two ahead of this that went down as the signals cleared.

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by NorthWest on Monday, January 12, 2015 8:57 PM

He's sitting on the left rail in the bumping post, at the lower left corner of the rail.

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:51 AM

I believe the first photo is at East NY yard, west of B'way Jc. Eastern Parkway Sta., and the lion is at the window in the left side of the small utility building with the purplish-red roof. Or lieing on the bottom rung of the fence on the near side of the tracks between the second and third posts from the right of the picture.

The seoncd plus third picture is looking westbound, railroad southbound, toward Brighton Beach Station, and the Lion is in the tree, in the photo above the Q sign of the train the B or D (depending when the photo was taken) you are riding would probably be passing, if it were noit being held for the northbound departure of the B or D leaving from the same track in the Brighton Beach station, which will take a crossover to the northbound express track to the left of the train you are riding.

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:14 AM
The depressed two tracks are on the Franklin 'Shuttle on the southern portion of the line.
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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:16 AM

The depressed two tracks are on the Franklin Shuttle on the southern portion ofo the line.

Whats new with the layout?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:31 PM

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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