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LION on LIONS 2014

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:31 PM

Easy Peasy! Up at the top in the forest of Central Park in front of the Manhattan skyline. He is pretty big in this photo.

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:08 PM

OOOCH, more hiden lion spagetti, dini see atoll
Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:39 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 BroadwayLion on Monday, January 27, 2014 4:15 PM

BATMAN

Well I thought I'd let Frank get this easy one but do to technical difficulties....... I'll have to say the little varmit is in the girders above the light on the left.

 

 

Yup, that is where the little warmint is. The girders were fun enough to make: is is curogated cardboard, painted correctly.

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 G Paine on Monday, January 27, 2014 11:37 AM

Him hidden good, tink I see, but maybe a bat hanging there instead - too darkish

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, January 27, 2014 10:06 AM

Well I thought I'd let Frank get this easy one but do to technical difficulties....... I'll have to say the little varmit is in the girders above the light on the left.

Brent

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Posted by zstripe on Monday, January 27, 2014 7:13 AM

LION,

I have lost my ability, to enlarge your pic's, so I'll have to be out of the hunt for a while.

But my guess would be, to the left of the center post, at the middle where the yellow safety line is.

Plus I like the yittle route Map.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, January 27, 2014 6:45 AM

You have not yet found the LION. This is an easy one, but I'll give you more time on it.

 

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 Sunday, January 26, 2014 11:12 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 JoeinPA on Saturday, January 25, 2014 1:23 PM

rrinker

 There's a LION somewhere else this month....

                 --Randy

 

Yes I saw his contribution. Nicely done Lion.

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Posted by rrinker on Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:06 PM

 There's a LION somewhere else this month....

                 --Randy


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Posted by JoeinPA on Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:28 AM

He's on top of the middle signal.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:02 AM

There are LIONS and then there are scraps of stuff that look like LIONS. Can ewe tell the difference?

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

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, January 24, 2014 11:02 AM

Actually, there is no LION in that picture. You did see the Bushy LION in the first two shots.

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 BPoi on Friday, January 24, 2014 10:50 AM

Is that a LION there, underneath the 9th relay of the top row in a bundle of wires?

 

?

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, January 24, 2014 10:04 AM

 

 

Take a magnetic reed switch, attach it to a pair of wires, I am using some conductors stripped out of a Cat-5 cable. Drill a 3/32" hole between the tracks and insert the assembly (much easier than trying to construct it in situ.) Cover the assumbly with a small snip of duct tape to protect it.Trains have magnets on the bottom of a middle car, pulls detection relays.

Yeah Relays. LIONS do not understand chips or transistors and all that he knows about vacuum tubes the that they glow red and get very hot. RELAYS.... That a LION can understand. Things that go CLICK, and you can see what they are doing. Here is motherboard of LION.

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 BATMAN on Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:34 PM

Our little friend appears to be hanging out in the (big) red light district.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:32 PM

Oh, yes, the posters. I was at our Pepsi distributorship, I needed a gas line for our machine, and I saw stacks of these panels. I knew that they would make great building material for structures on my layout, and so they gave me these.

In the meanwhile, the winter sun was bothering the poor little LION, and so he put the panels up on the window sill. Once upon a time they were all right side up, but I took some down for some more light one day. Then recently I put them back up again without paying attention to which end was up.

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 zstripe on Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:52 AM

Lion,

WOW! Look it all the wever's and stuff's, I wanna' pway wit dose', can I? Big Smile

BTW, The two center poster's on the window's, are upside down. Bow picky picky.

Meow!

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:32 AM

So here is the LION'S GRS machine. The power supply for the trains is to the left, the output to the tracks passes through that red light. The locomotives do not draw enough to current to cause the lamp to light, but drop a a coin, or other short and all of the current passes through the light, and it lights up. Lets the operator know that there is a problem on the line. What with a 15 amp power supply, some shorts are not enough to trip the internal protection in the supply.

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 23, 2014 7:12 AM

I saw that spot on top of the car, that looked like a little LION, but it is not. It is not in focus. LIONS are always in focus as compared to the rest of the frame. Atop the train you just see the wood work of the platform roof. The LION is on the window frame on the Storm Door.

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 BPoi on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:06 PM

JoeinPA

Nope. He's sitting in the corner of the door window under the 4.

Joe

 

 

I agree.

 

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Posted by JoeinPA on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 11:53 AM

Nope. He's sitting in the corner of the door window under the 4.

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 10:47 AM

Lion is holding tight to the top of the car above the 7 on the number board

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:34 AM

Got some new pictures on the layout.

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 BPoi on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:21 PM

BroadwayLion

 

ROAR

 

 

Oh, OK.  By the red piece of wire?  That was a good one!

 

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Posted by JoeinPA on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:16 PM

He is sitting on the cable where the #12 connection for Rector Street is made. He is looking very proud of himself.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:01 AM

Please pass the Spaghetti.

These are some of the new cables that will replace the spaghetti

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 Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:14 AM

BPoi
Hmmm. Do you ever tell us where he was when we don't find him?

Yes, normally I try to do this, and I tried with this one, but when I enlarged the photo you could see him no better than when I did not enlarge it. He is just below the horizontal center of the photo, to the left of a red object which is to the left of a paint bottle. From the left edge of the clock straight down to the red object. Yup that was a tough one.

ROAR

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by Southgate on Monday, January 20, 2014 7:54 PM

Lion all that wiring can still serve two purposes; If you drop anything fragile off the layout, it will have a soft landing. (you may never get it untangled though)

Second. It makes me feel a lot better about what I thought was my wiring mess! Smile Dan

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