If you say you took the pix at Corona, I will have to believe you. But you had posted a pix of Corona with its new inspection barn having a four-track lead and identified as such by the LIRR Port Washington Line adjacent to the yard. So if it is Corona, they have more than one new structure since I was there. Can you check on this?
Could also be the Corona Yard.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Could be Westchester or White Plains Rd. yard, with inspection building new since my last visit.
On the farther cab, find the white air conditioner. Lion is sitting just to the left of the left fan.
YIKES! Plenty of places for a LION to hide (or get hurt) on a machine like that. I sure hope he is careful.
Not an HO-gauge Lion but an N-gauge Lion about the size of a paw.
Not on, behind, one paw showing "on".
Nah... The LION is on the green wall just in front of that dead tree.
ROAR
At about platform level between the black control box and the right face of the tunnel portal.
LION is indeed in North Dakota, but it has been very cold out here, and the fire in our boiler went out yesterday morning. We fire with coal, and it was so cold out that the coal froze, (to the side of the bin). This created a coal bridge inside the bin with several tons of coal up in the air, and not down on the augers.
It was quicker to bang down the coal, and relight the coal boiler than it would have been to start up the gas boiler. The coal saves us about $200 per day over gas. Anyway, it is all working now. We also have our own generator so that if power goes out we are still lit up.
LION has been working on model railroad since Monday was a holiday.
Here is LION in Hiding at Dyckman Street....
How about PATH, the other subway?
Possibly he has not finished exploring NY. Has he been to 95th and Ft. Hamilton? Or Broad and Nassau? Or Nostrand and Flatbush? The Crosstown part of the G? The "L" end-to-end? 1st things 1st!
I'm still hoping that he would make a visit to Chicago, lots of interesting places on the L for him to see.
Where is Lion now? Back in the tunnels, or freezing away in North Dakota?
Nice eye, Lion! Thanks for posting.
The Lion is on the iron bar with holes in it between the right rail and the walkway, three ties up from the base of the tree.
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BroadwayLion A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.... The baskets between the ties are to catch bolts and stuff before they land on pedestrians and cars below. LION is hiding, and given his size, he is in a safe enough place given the frame of the photo.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn....
The baskets between the ties are to catch bolts and stuff before they land on pedestrians and cars below. LION is hiding, and given his size, he is in a safe enough place given the frame of the photo.
NorthWest 4. Lion, you have done amazing work considering the resources you have. If it brings you joy, you are doing it right.
4. Lion, you have done amazing work considering the resources you have. If it brings you joy, you are doing it right.
This is the most important point.
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The TA has used several manufactuers and models of diesel switchers in work-train service. Is the one model seen several times on the video a model of one they used or are using?
Various comments (in chronological order):
1. The New Technology trains (including R142s) have all red LEDs. Although one with green LEDs and cab front sides would be interesting for the 5...
2. The R142 to me doesn't look like a CTA train, as it doesn't have class lights, and the sides are vertical (not sloped like CTA cars). The headlights and taillights are vertical, not horizontally arranged. But I can see where the resemblance is. To each their own opinion!
3. The Lion is on top of the plastic barrier below R40 4231's first door.
wonderful layout captures the spirit of the subway system
henry6B.L.: repost your video ride from the Bronx down...good time and place to do it as it explains a lot about what you are doing....
LION is using "wayback" machine to visit 207th Street yards. The slants are on their way out (going for a swim, they are). The automobiles look like so many cubs at feeding time. LION is in hiding.
LION has taken no video in the city. If you want the one on my layout, I can show it again here.
watch?feature=playerembedded&v=wtxsdwqv08
It has now become an old video, there have been many improvements since then. I ought to shoot it again, but at the moment I am re-wiring the signal system. The trains are fully automatic, I do not control them once they leave the terminal at 242nd Street.
B.L.: repost your video ride from the Bronx down...good time and place to do it as it explains a lot about what you are doing....
So it is a photo taken on your model railroad with the diarama photo background including the NYW&B E180 station and your having modified one of your storebought IRT SMEE cars with a CTA rear end.
daveklepper It is a photoshop puttogether or a photo on his or someone else's model railroad. Because the 5 train is not red. I think uses a green symbol, but certainly not red, reserved for 1, 2, and 3. I think it is on his model rialroad with the photo diorama behind showing the E180 NYW&B station.
It is a photoshop puttogether or a photo on his or someone else's model railroad. Because the 5 train is not red. I think uses a green symbol, but certainly not red, reserved for 1, 2, and 3. I think it is on his model rialroad with the photo diorama behind showing the E180 NYW&B station.
LION does not Photoshop photos. Him uses Serif Photo Plus to add a little LION, (which you did not find yet) and Photomatix software to bring HD to the colors. Otherwise the photo was taken by me as you see it.
All high tech trains use red LEDs for the end marker.
After reviewing the nycsubway website, I've established that 6820 is actually an R-142 and the front end really does look like it came from CTA.
The front end of the R-180 car (6820) looks like it was stolen from the Chicago Transit Authority.
E180
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