Bushy LION inspects a temporary platform on the Brighton Line.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Speedy Cheater commandeered a (Q) train on the Brighton Line!
Forty Second Street on the Broadway Line (That must be the Broadway LION, eh?) What he be thinking of?
This will slow the Speedy Cheater down a bit. Put him on "C" Division!
Riding on the point of an R-62 on the Dyer Avenue Line, we hare photographing through both the inner window and the storm door window. The inner window has a prism like glass that keeps the car lights from disturbing the motorman. It also adds funny effects to the photograph. The LION might be one of those effects, or there might actually be mountain lions in the Bronx. For those as who were unaware, there is more parkland in NYC than in any other US city.
ROAR
An (L) Train ducks into the tunnel from the East New York Station (Or whatever they have decided to call it this year). Bushy LION (dressed in his safety vest) is inspecting the trains as they go by. I tried to get on top of that portal to take pictures from it, but that is not possible for it is also the roof of an automobile repair place on the street intersection there. I will have to content myself with this fine shot.
Do NOT follow the Rabbit into the hole....
Oh Geesh... Now look at what you have done!
A LION, from the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck happened to be visiting the new (now defunct) South Ferry Station at the same time as I. Perhaps he sees a Wildebeest on that arriving train.
The LIONS are ganging up on the (1) Train. This station has since then been completely refinished.
Here is rebuilt station.
ASLAN watches over Nigel, Kingston, Bushy, Shaggy, and Speedy as they prepare to that the Museum train of Low V's out on the road.
All Aboard!
Veemila is a wonderful White Bengal tiger of my acquaintance. It seems like she traveled from the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck to South Ferry in Manhattan looking for tasty morsels to pounce upon. I for one, did not know that the (1) made a stop in Bismarck, but there you are.
Bushy LION is in Canarsie checking out the then new R143 subway cars.
The LION must have frightened the poor trains, here is one that tried to get away...
The (L) line is under Computer Based Train Control (CBTC), but the yards are not computerized, so this unit was under the control of a motorman. The unit had just come off of the wash rack when the operator had a seizure. Car has not been returned to service.
125th Street may have become gentrified, but all the LION sees here is a noonday snack. Maybe the lady did not see the LION, but that is not the problem of the LION.
The Speedy Cheater brings the (W) train into the Queensboro Plaza station. There are four tracks there today, once upon a time there were eight.
No time to chat. Gotta CATCH a train. These LIONS are at Dyckman Street in Manhattan and it looks like that (1) train is getting away from them.
The Speedy Cheater pilots the (B) train out on the Brighton Line.
Also, more is here-http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/New_York,_Westchester,_and_Boston_Railway
This is a great website for mass transit around NYC.
Lion, loving the pictures, keep it up!
Today the only part of it left running is the Dyre Avenue Line of the IRT.
Here is more info on the NYW&B
Now, visiting in Brooklyn, Shaggy LION inspects the Brighton line.
What do you know about the New York Westchester and Boston? Electric Ry.
Looks Like Speedy Cheater is running a train in the Bronx...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!)
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,
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
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.
Shaggy LION inspects the tracks at the Parkside Avenue station. This is one of the stations that I have modeled on my layout..
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