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.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
...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.
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.
I'm going to guess that Bushy is hitching a ride on an RS3, somewhere in upstate New York.
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.
BroadwayLionLIONS are impressed by the arboreal tunnels on this line.
Not only that. Those overhanging trees are pretty nifty too.
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).
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.
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.
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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!
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."
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.
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.
Thx IGN
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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