Bushy, I don't think we are in NYC any more.
So, where do you suppose the Bushy LION is, (Yes on the Front of a Locomotive, we *know* that.) What Railroad, and what kind of locomotive do you suppose.
Extra points, what city is the LION in.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I'm going to guess that Bushy is hitching a ride on an RS3, somewhere in upstate New York.
Well, yes, I *do* believe it is an RS-3, and Yes, I *think* it is an NYS Railroad Company, but the photo was not taken in New York State.
...The REST of the Story...
Refugees from Steam Town... Three Delaware - Lackawana RS3s help out on a steam excursion from Scranton to East Stroudsburg. The line is seeing more freight traffic. Water tank is still on the property, but is not used, the Fire Department comes out to fill the tender with water for the return trip.
The Puffer Belly had to go all the way to the Wye at Portland in order to turn around.
Is 50 degrees and raining outside. LION came inside the car to keep dry. This is an R-36 WF subway car, long since out of service, this one is in the Transit Museum. LION does not know where all the people went.
It is still raining in sunny North Dakota, oh well, the farmers need the rain. But then again, farmers will complain about the weather no matter what it is. ASLAN (Lord of the LIONS) has taken shelter in this vintage BMT car, It is a Multiple (Articulated) unit.
Bushy LION watches over the 207th Street Yard were some museum and work trains are stored. In the foreground is a Lo-V (Could be a Hi-V -- they looked exactly the same 'cept of course there are no Hi-Vs left), behind that some red birds. The yellow equipment behind the LION is a work train of some sort.
Not far from 207th Street, Kingston LION watches over the Dyckman Street IRT station. Too bad the grafitti has been grafittied over, LION has the original on his layout. The Portal says "Fort George", not the original Fort, but the neighborhood named for that fort. The tunnel is a deep bore, not "cut and cover"; less than 600 feet from the feet of the LION this becomes an elevated line above St. Nicholas Avenue before it turns to rejoin Broadway, or rather Broadway rejoins the rout that the subway was following all along.
Here is Bushy LION on museum car. Back in the day, straps were STRAPS. How would you like to put your clean paw on that thing. It is a good thing we got some Fairy Soap.
Here is Bushy LION, him visit the transit museum at the Court Street Station. Him has taken over the interlocking machine in the tower room. MTA knows that LION (and tourists) were coming to visit: all of the levers are LOCKED in the normal position. The machine is very much alife and works the signals and switches at court street which are required for the movement of museum stock.
Here is new modelboard LION is building for his HO scale interlocking tower:
Shaggy LION got lost in the trackworks on the Flushing line. . Him thinks he will wait right where he is until rush hour is over, and then maybe follow that lower level track that bends off to the right. Those trees look like a better habitat for a LION.
It is pouring rain in North Dakota, and the monks are all on retreat this week, so schedules stand on their heads. Bushy LION is waiting on the 8th Avenue platform of the 14th Street Subway (the Canarsie Line). Him thinks to take a ride out to the sea shore.
Here is Bushy at the other end of the same line, out in Canarsie. Conductor recognized me and my camera from the start of the run at 8th Avenue. It is the only place that I know of where the city transit bus pulls right into the train station to allow for a free across the platform transfer. The history behind this was that as a trolley line, this route extended another stop almost all of the way to the pier. I actually took this photo from the bus platform. Only this one bus pulls in here, others need to be boarded out on the street, although with the Metrocard, the transfer is free anyway.
Shaggy LION is visiting the transit museum. He is exploring the Revenue Car, that is to say the "Money Train". The grey cat is named "Token" and he lives in the museum.
This concludes the "LionPic" series, tomorrow we will start the much larger "L-Pic" series.
It is a brave new world out there. It appears that NYCT has also automated their layout. Their layout may be bigger than mine, but mine is still the largest subway layout in North Dakota.
Speedy Cheater is my motorman, he drives many of my subway trains. Here is running a work motor of the sort usually use by the rubbish collection train.
Kingston LION visits the Broad Channel station on the Rockaway line. This is an older picture, but the line just now re-opened in its post Sandy configuration.
ASLAN sits atop the portal at Fort George. Bushy LION is waiting for Rame to come back (who ever the heck Rame might be) perhaps he wants to have a workd with him.
I had been watching that particular piece of graffiti for many years, it was very vivid and distinctive when it was first applied, then one year some other artist painted his name over it and that did not look so well. NYCT has since renovated this station, and the walls are painted with an anti-graffiti material which should allow the MTA to keep the station cleaner. We shall see what it looks like this summer, and in the meanwhile, Rame lives on on my model railroad layout.
Shaggy LION inspects the tracks at the Parkside Avenue station. This is one of the stations that I have modeled on my layout..
Veemila is a fine white Bengal Tiger of my acquaintance. It looks like she and the motorman are ready to butt heads. Fortunately for the MM the window is closed.
We will see more of Veemila later, but below she has initiated a game of "Queen of the Rock" with the unsuspecting Lila.
Care to explore Cleveland and Buffalo Subways System next time they let you the" Mad Monk Lion" out of the Monastery PM me ASAP.
You could stay at St. Andrews monastary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictine_High_School_%28Cleveland,_Ohio%29 whic is on the Green Line
Would like to see the wonders of Cleveland or Buffalo, but it is just not in the cards for now. My parents are still both alive, and so I will spend my vacations with them in Pennsylvania.
Thanks,
So have you ridden Pittsburg's T subway and the New line under the river to the Stadium/Casino...also Pennsylvania Trolley museum in Washington PA.....I also assume that you took monastic classes at the Benedictine college in Latrobe (Rolling Rock beer yum!)
Gotta think this one through for a bit, but exactly WHAT is that (N) train doing on 9th Avenue? Bushy LION is here to investigate.
Bushy LION watches the signals as the Speedy Cheater runs his (F) up onto the McDonald Avenue elevated. The original line built by Mr. Culver went to the left behind the LION to connect with the 9th Avenue station on the West End Line. The old Culver Shuttle ran here after the IND took over service on McDonald Avenue. The Culver Shuttle ended operations more than 40 years ago, house have grown where trains used to be.
This is where you get off to visit TRAINWORLD if you want to buy more HO scale subway cars.
Now the Bushy LION is at Jay Street / Boro Hall. Him is inspecting the 6th Avenue line (8th Avenue line is across platform). Once upon a time, long long ago (F) trains ran on the lower level at Bergen Street, and then express to Church Street. Trains have not run express on this route in many long years, and the lower station at Bergen Street is long since ferkaputten, but with the renovations on the Smith Street Line and what they call the "Culver Viaduct" (it is no such thing, Culver NEVER built such a thing!) some trains had to be routed via the express tracks. The sign warns inattentive train operators not to stop at Bergen Street if they are on the lower level.
Ach! LION remembers when trains *did* stop on the lower level. Was Chinese fire drill. Gooses would wait on the stairway, and then run up or down depending on which train came in first. Was *supposed* to be (GG) train to Greenpoint via Crosstown on the upper level and the (F) train to 6th Avenue on the lower level, but original IND schema had big flaw in it. So (F) ran local past 40 years. Nobody use lower level.
Gooses who lived along this route wanted direct Manhattan service, poor rich gooses, they buy politicians, politicians tell MTA do this this and this. but still they give them no money.
These are great pictures. Having lived in NYC for eight years, I can relate to them perhaps better than folks who have not lived there. I lived on West 88th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam for two years; the remainder of my time was spent in Rockaway Park and Bay Ride.
I rode the subway to work every day. From Bay Ridge I took the RR train and switched to the N train at 59th street, if I remember correctly. I don't remember what train I took from upper Broadway; I left NYC in 1972, so my memories of living in NYC are a bit hazy.
The picture of the train at Broad Channel brings back special memories. My wife grew up in Rockaway Park and for the first year of our marriage we lived there. We took the train to Manhattan every day. I used to call it the Rockaway Rocket. It was a long trip as I remember it and, ultimately, to cut down on the commuting time, we moved to Bay Ridge.
Thank you Sam1. ASLAN, king of all LIONS is on a side platform, but I am not quite sure which one. It is a terminal, but not 242nd Street, I suspect that it is at the end of the (4) line. It was raining when I was out there. Rain makes for good photography.
Looks Like Speedy Cheater is running a train in the Bronx...
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