The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
no rats...I am shocked. I would think for sure, with all of the photos posted we would have caught a glimpse of a rat or two...their little red eys glimmering...rats, the system is full of them. You got Day-Walking coons in Queens, and rats underground in Manhattan...I can almost smell the urine in some of those shots...ahh summer in the city...I miss those days.
A photographic opportunity that only comes along once in a 'coons-age!
So, just what exactly is the 'coon's age?
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
BroadwayLion
I like this one too!!!!!!!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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Oh how I miss the days of the R1-9's, R-10's, and R-38's.
Also the EE, GG, KK, RR, QJ!
yup.
I got to run one at the BERA trolley museum.
Boy, I looked younger back then!
EVOLUTION: The Transit Museum Revisited...
Beverely Road, Brooklyn
On the Sea Beach Line, Brooklyn
Lion,
The treatment is wonderful in the transformation, but the original compositions are what make it all special. There should be a book.... J.R.
If you take 10,000 or more photos, you just have to get one or two good ones!
Thanks
And given a typewriter and enough time a chimp could write Shakespeare. Don't buy it, never did, and your light hidden under the bush needs sharing. J.R.
Park Slope, Brooklyn -- The Gowanus Canal, I will model this body of water on my layout.
BU Cars on The Brighton Line, July 2004, Brooklyn, NY
Howard Beach, Jamaica, Queens.
Name *that* signal aspect!
ROAR
Astoria, Queens. Ramp to Hell Gate Bridge shown from elevates subway station.
Lion, The Astoria, Queens picture makes a great desktop background. What year was this one taken?
Ken G Price My N-Scale Layout
Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR
N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
That one was taken in June of 2008.
Elias
Thank you for the date.
Queen's Plaza, Long Island City, Queens NY
You can tell from that shot that this system was put into place many a year ago to work it's way around existing buildings...
Actually, that part of the system used to have twice as many tracks some of which once upon a time went across the Queens Bridge. Now the Flushing line makes a sharp left turn into the Steinway Tunnel, while the BMT (shown) makes a jog left into the 60th Street Tunnel. The buildings on the left are both railroad buildings constructed on the right of way for whatever purposes they required.
City bound trains are on the lower level, Queens bound trains are on the upper level.
Smith-9th Street, Brooklyn. Here the IND rides on an elevated structure, the only one built by the IND, and it goes right over the top of these buildings. Further west there are four story buildings under the tracks. In this shot you can see a holding track moving to a lower level which simply ends a few feet west of this photo. It is a matter of speculation as to why this pocket was built since trains to and from Manhattan cannot access it, and besides it is too short(?) to hold a full 600' train. It may have been intended to be used as a layup track fro the Staten Island line that was never built.
It's been a long time since I was in NYC Metro area but I do have memories of these old lines running all over the city; above & below. As a kid, it was hard for me to understand just how complex the system was but was sure cool to watch them come and go to who knows where!
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