For a while the LION posted a series on SubChat called LION Pics. I will reprise that series here if any are interested or even if they are not interested. So now everybody will have to look into the TRANSIT fourm to see what the LION has done next.
Here is a LION hiding in a subway tunnel near the Emergency Power Switch.
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The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Bushy LION has a built-in safety vest as he inspects the signals on what appears to be the Jamaica Line, least wise the signal to the left is marked for the J1 track, at chain location 335. I suppose I could go look that up.
Here is Shaggy LION visiting the 207th Street Yards in Manhattan. The train at the depot is the "Signal Dolly". Signals are maintained from the two yellow cars in the middle of the consist. The end pairs are "Work Motors" which were purpose built new, rather than simply converting out of service stock.
Shaggy LION visits a station on the Sea Beach Line. This line runs in an open cut. Street level is, well, at that street that you see crossing the tracks here. The Sea Beach Line was hit particularly hard during the Super-Storm Sandy.
Just in time for the centennial, ASLAN, a LION of impeccable repute takes his place as Lord of Grand Central Terminal.
Grand Central Terminal was the home station of the New York Central System, and is now home to Metro-North Railroad. MNRR operates New Haven trains under contract from ConnDOT, owner of New Haven trackage west of New Haven. AMTK trains from that route peal off across the Hell Gate Bridge for access to NYP, which they own.
Grand Central is a subway stop.
Grand Central Station is a post office.
So get yor terms correct or you may end up in somebody's amil box.
But I think you lions have to stand in line behind the original lion of Grand Central Terminal: Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Here is Shaggy LION hanging on to the Pantograph Gate on an R-62 type subway car. This is the NEW South Ferry Station before Super Storm Sandy turned it into Neptune's Grave It was a nice station, but short-lived as events turn out. What the heck, if they can build submarines that will operate thousands of feet below the ocean, they should be able to build a subway station than will not die in a 15' storm surge. LION looks forward to photographing the "old station" when he visits the city this summer.
The LION should pay a visit to the "L" someday soon. Not as big as the Subway, but just as interesting.
CSSHEGEWISCHThe LION should pay a visit to the "L" someday soon. Not as big as the Subway, but just as interesting.
LION likes Chicago. Went to NAVY boot camp in that neighborhood. But him gets not to Chicago very often. Did find a good steak sandwich at the airport last summer, but I am not passing through there this year. A few time I to the train back to NY/PA for vacation with nice layovers in CHI.
But the LION is a New York boy, and that is all there is to it. My parents are both alive and live in PA, so I fly into Allentown, and get to take the Martz Bus in to Manhattan a few times. Other than that, I do not see any Chicago Trips in the foreseeable future.
Bushy LION is on the Brighton Line, at the time the picture was taken the local tracks were out of service for major station and track repairs. All service was operating on the express tracks. The fence that the LION is sitting on separates the work area from the moving trains and negates the need for flag protection. That line is fully restored to service now, and has been for more than a year.
Here is another pic on the Brighton Line during its reconstruction. Bushy LION inspects the portable platform that bridged the Local track to the express track.
Shaggy LION has gotten him self up in a tree. Maybe he was trying to beat the fare, or maybe he thinks that postal person below would make a good lunch. Where is the train? Broadway LION is standing on the platform taking the picture looking straight down at the street. You can see the shadow of him with his camera at the base of the light pole.
Shaggy Lion is still out and about, this time he took the Metro North Railroad to Irvington, New York, the childhood home of the mother LION. Him remembers walking down the hill (Main Street) to the tracks (by the River). Him (being from Long Island) found the under-running third rails quite different (weird).
On this visit to Irvington I chanced by the historical center, where I spoke with an old man, and mentioned that my grandparents lived in that apartment building across the street. He looks at me closely and says "Smith" (which of course was my mother's maiden name). LION also visited the Presbyterian church where him was baptized.
From Irvington, New York, we travel to Merrick, Long Island, the childhood home of the LION. Here the same M-7 class of MU cars is running on an elevated structure in the LIRR colors.
And here is a photo of the LION himself, in person, taken back in the 1960s. The railroad station is still Merrick, and I am still waiting for a train to New York City, but some things have changed over the years.
Here is Kingston LION and him is in the Transit Museum in Brooklyn. He is standing on an R-10 car of the sort that were built the same year that I was born. But this one is not really a real R-10, but an older R-4 that was in a wreck and was rebuilt in the R-10 likeness as a "demonstrator". Mechanically, it is still of the arnine series and can only run with arnine (R-9 including R-1 to R-9) equipment. No actual R-10s were saved, but this unit was saved for its historical significance.
For bonus points: What is the LION standing on.
BroadwayLionBushy LION is on the Brighton Line, at the time the picture was taken the local tracks were out of service for major station and track repairs.
The Brighton Line you say. Were you perhaps found in a handbag that had been checked in the Baggage Room? And did you ever use the name "John Worthing?"
Left to right are Kingston LION, Shaggy LION, Aslan, and Bushy LION, along with some tasty treats apparently part of a tour group of some kind. During Super Storm Sandy (SSS) the water was half way up to the tom in this space. This is an anti-antediluvian image when all was still well with the world, and before those trees became seaweed.
Bushy LION never in handbag.
Bushy LION is in the Court Street (IND) station in Brooklyn. Once upon a time it was the terminal of the HH train. That did not last very long, and then it lay empty, but now for the last 40+ years, it has been the Transit Museum. The track door beyond the LION keeps vandals and homeless out of the museum, and protects the equipment from gra----ti. Museum equipment is also stored on the other side of those doors but is not on display. Being an IND station it also has a full length mezzanine with more displays on it. Through the doorway (behind the LION) with the people (LION snacks) inside is the Interlocking "Tower" with its GRS Model-5 interlocking machine, which is very much alive, and is used to align tracks within the museum.
Shaggy LION inspects the work along the Brighton Line at the Avenue H station. Him found a nice tree to sit in while watching trains and workers and maybe even pouncing on some unwary morsel.
BroadwayLionHim found a nice tree to sit in while watching trains and workers and maybe even pouncing on some unwary morsel.
I hope I'm not the unwary morsel.
Shaggy LION visits Coney Island. He came to get some hot dogs at Nathans. Him always comes for the hot dogs, but it seems you need a month's pay to buy them now. LION wants to build a copy of that station on his train layout.
BroadwayLion Here is Kingston LION and him is in the Transit Museum in Brooklyn. He is standing on an R-10 car of the sort that were built the same year that I was born. But this one is not really a real R-10, but an older R-4 that was in a wreck and was rebuilt in the R-10 likeness as a "demonstrator". Mechanically, it is still of the arnine series and can only run with arnine (R-9 including R-1 to R-9) equipment. No actual R-10s were saved, but this unit was saved for its historical significance. For bonus points: What is the LION standing on.
Thx IGN
A better description is those are the handholds for the conductor to hang onto when looking out to check the doors. and the door switch is mounted within.
It's nice to know that other people take the subway to Coney Island to get hot dogs at Nathan's. The only disappointment is that you can't get a good hot dog in New York, unless Portillo's or Demon Dogs opens a stand in New York.
narig01A better description is those are the handholds for the conductor to hang onto when looking out to check the doors. and the door switch is mounted within.
Yes. Under the box there are two triggers. the first trigger unlocks the second trigger which opens the doors. slapping down on the top of the handle releases the triggers and closes the doors. Those buttons on top are called the "Bottle Caps". To close the doors, you "slap the caps."
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The Bushy LION saw his friend Shaggy at Coney Island. Bushy thought he would have some fun climbing up on that cool curved roof. Poor Bushy!
Bushy LION is off to the Manhattan. Perhaps you did not know that there was a jungle at the Dyckman Street Station. The striped board next to Bushy is called "the Zebra". I suppose that Bushy found out that this zebra was not edible, it is a marker for the conductor. He must POINT at the zebra before he opens the doors, thus assuring that the train is properly berthed in the station. Inspectors have been known to remove the zebra and then write up any conductor who points his finger in the air and opens the doors anyway.
Protocol in the case of a missing zebra is to confirm by radio or intercom with your motorman that the train is indeed properly berthed, AND do give notification to control that the zebra is AWOL and that you have determined that it is safe to open the doors.
Some conductors have even been known to open the doors on the wrong side of the train. So much for saluting the zebra. In Japan the train operator must point to each signal as he passes it and chant aloud an incantation to the spirit of the signals praising it for its aspect as he passes it.
Bushy LION is back in Brooklyn this morning, supervising the track work on the north bound express track, and also on the southbound local track. LIONS are impressed by the arboreal tunnels on this line.
Here is Bushy LION on the Sea Beach Line... (Sea LION???)
The line is in an open cut, the house on either side are on grade level. Those four pipes across the ROW do not carry anything. They were installed to keep the walls in place so that they do not fall over.
The track the LION is standing on is abandoned, the remaining middle track is for work or re-routing issues. West of the lion (behind the photographer) there are remnants of trolley wire left over from a time when trolleys plied this route and prior to subway service. The "Sea Beach" is one of several steam railroads that were pulled together to form the BRT (BMT).
BroadwayLionLIONS are impressed by the arboreal tunnels on this line.
Not only that. Those overhanging trees are pretty nifty too.
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