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The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
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The Lion is in the top right on top of the wall.
On the Brighton Line Beverly Rd?
Thx IGN
narig01 At the transit museum?
No actually this run was out on the railroad. (No LION in it so do not bother to look for him)
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Bottom of white pillar on the right. "Exit to Prospect Park" places it.
Well, It is in the folder with the IND 145th Street Station, but that is clearly incorrect. A token booth on the platform rules out the IND. The LION searched that photo number sans the last digit to see what else was in this sequence.
Ta Da... It is on the BMT, It is on the Franklin Shuttle, It is BOTANIC GARDEN station.
So the Sign "Exit to Prospect Park" is correct (although I cannot read it) since Prospect (the Park not the station) is a big affair with stops all around it.
OK, Guess Where is thei one, (and of course where is the LION?
BroadwayLion ... where is the LION?
... where is the LION?
How is he hanging onto that tile wall, since the little diamond (at left) he's "sitting" on isn't really raised enough to perch on?
I didn't think claws worked in that direction...
My oh my! nobody found the Lion standing on the left end of the chain link fence.
Where here is another one. 1) Find the LION; and 2) Where on NYCT is *this*.ROAR
LION is sitting on top of the Cyclone fence to the left. The lack of third rail suggests that this is a connecting track with the South Brooklyn Ry.
He's at the blowhole of Peter Sis' Subway Whale.
Here's another view of the poster in a more familiar place...
LION is perched on the right end of the top of the facade of the red brick building across the street.
LION, I think your layout is terrific and will be even more terrific with more scenery complete.
But would you not be happpier if the trains decelerated more slowly and realistically when stopping at stations? All you need is to section about 2/3 a platform length of one of the two rails and feed it through a dropping resistor to reduce the voltage for that length of the platform. Some experimenetation as to value of the resistor may be needed, as a start the total resistance of the motor at rest itself may be a good place to beging, and more than one car in the train is powered, then it should be the motors in parallel. Be sure you know how much current is drawn and buy a resistor that can handle twice the current.
I realize what I wrote assumed only the head car of the subway train is powered, and the rest "dukmmies." if the front and rear of more are powered, the reduced-voltage block should proably be about 133% the lenth of the platform, starting appropriately before the station. A switfched bypass of the resister may be necessary for starting after the station stop.
It does look a little fast in the video. And I did knock the base voltage down to 10v instead of the previous 10.2 volts.
There may be one or two power cars in a consist, and the consits can run in either direction. For this reason all 48 wheels pick up power.
There are dropping resistors, I use three 5.1 ohm at 1/2 Watt about one foot apart approaching and leaving the station. That wattage is a bit low, but considering that they are only carring that current for a few seconds it was decided by our engineering department to be sufficient. Ture a derailment in a resistor zone will cause it ot over heat, and could start a small fire since my power supply puts out a full 12 amps, and the resistor limits the circuit to about 5. That needs work on it.
But it is coming along nicely, and thank you for youyr kind words.
Lower left-hand screw on the red sign.
With respect -- isn't that dropping-resistor stuff in model railroading a technology that went out with the '60s -- an excuse for not having a good enough potentiometer in your speed control? I guess it has the advantage of being inexpensive...
My father said he had rigged up a set of resistors connected to a rotary switch that he used in conjunction with a momentum throttle to simulate brake application, but he would cut this in any time he wanted the effect, not just at stations. He explained why he thought that was different from just decreasing the amount of 'momentum' via the time constant or whatever, but I'm not sure I'm convinced.
Doesn't DCC have provisions for changing effective throttle response depending on track location? If not, it might be interesting to develop a spec...
The sign is reminiscent of a practice on EB South Shore trains after they stopped at 115th Street. Because proper platforming of the train made it almost impossible for the motorman to see the interlocking signal, the conductor would wait to see the proper signal indication before giving two bells to proceed.
CSSHEGEWISCHThe sign is reminiscent of a practice on EB South Shore trains after they stopped at 115th Street. Because proper platforming of the train made it almost impossible for the motorman to see the interlocking signal, the conductor would wait to see the proper signal indication before giving two bells to proceed.
Was that rules-legal? (Can someone quote the actual applicable rule(s) in force at the time?)
I was thinking that crew could CONFIRM a signal aspect, but not verbally tell the engineer what it was (which is how I'd interpret a clear-to-proceed signal in this context with the motorman not himself observing the interlocking signal directly).
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