It's good to see you back, Lion!
Wayne
The LION has been up to the train room. This photo may have some techinical faults, but I thought that it looked prety good anyway.
Besides this building not having an elevator and the train room being three flights up, I have built up enough lower leg strength to make the clkimb, however my instability due to neuropathy demands that the floor be perfectly clean lest I stumble and fall over. Br. Nicholas was kind enough to come up to the train room and spend a day helping me to clean up. Br. Stephen helped us carry trash and surpluis stuff down to the dumpster, the power house, and to the electronics shop.
Broadway--242nd Street may not look like much, but it is the main terminal on the layout. This being a subway layout, a train departs here every four minutes. Broadway is below the elevated structure, the orange buses are lining up to take passengers on to points in Westchester County. The Green buses are New York City Transit buses serving neighborhoods beyond the reach of the train.
Yes, this is the interlocking plant for the entire railroad, and to the left is the relay room that keeps the trains running. To operate the railroad at full rush hour capacity, I only have to manage the 242nd Street station. Levers 1 and 2 control the double crossover entering the station. Lever 3 controls the home signal at Dyckman Street, allowing a train to proceed into 242nd Street. Levers 35 and 36 control the home signals allowing a train to depart either from track 1 or track 2 to run on the railroad.
A train may depart every four minutes, but it takes a full 20 minutes for the train to make a round trip from Broadway-242 Street to South Ferry and then back to Broadway.
I can run ten trains at a time on the layout, they all run automatically, controplled by the relays above. There is no throttle or reversing switch on this layout. Indeed subway trains do not move in reverse. Even DCC couod not work here since I do not have ten operators foir my trains. All of the automation is analog with no computer chips anywhere on the railroad.
The LION likes relays that go CLICK and eschew little black chips the function of which our furry felid cannot fathom.
Now that I am retired from nursing and from computer management I expect that I will have mlre time to get up to the train room.
Next Project... Puttin an elevator in the library building.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
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