Apartmens along the Dyar Avene line, not PP. PP also model, not real? Good model!
daveklepper I assumed the apartment houses boarding the RofW were added after I last rode that line.
At Prospect Park? Those apartments have been there since the'20s.
The ones on Franklin Avenue are my interpretation of apartments that appear to be 1950s ish.
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I should have seen that yellow line on the opposite platform on the far side, giving away that it is a 4-track 59th Street Station. But note that the lower level of Lexington and 59th is a modern almost IND-style station, in contrast with the upper level which is typical somewhat modernized Lexington Avenue IRT. The 50th and Lex was originally built as only a local station, and the lower level express platforms were added around 1949 or 1950. As far your model photo, well you did a good job/ I assumed the apartment houses boarding the RofW were added after I last rode that line.
I still think you should not discriminate against 8th Streeters on your layout.
9th Ave on the D train or West Ave. Line. Had to go there myself after your first pics there. Fascinating. BUt don't go up the stairs on the north end of the platform or you'll at least get yelled at by the Transit Police.
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LION in Hiding...
daveklepperThe 4 train on Dyar must have been a fan trip, since the 4 doesn't run there normally, just the 5. The above photo is on the lower or express level of the Lexington Avenue subway, looking north on the downtown platform, because if my memory is correct, the crossoever downtown to uptown trakcks is north of the station. I think there is also a crossover on the upper or local level, but I see only signs pointing up, while on the local level there would also be signs pointing down (to the express platforms)..
The (4) train in this thread? Ah Hem... That is an HO scale model on my train layout in North Dakota.
59th Street.? The one just above? It's on the BMT in Brooklyn.
The 4 train on Dyar must have been a fan trip, since the 4 doesn't run there normally, just the 5. The above photo is on the lower or express level of the Lexington Avenue subway, looking north on the downtown platform, because if my memory is correct, the crossoever downtown to uptown trakcks is north of the station. I think there is also a crossover on the upper or local level, but I see only signs pointing up, while on the local level there would also be signs pointing down (to the express platforms)..
But if my memory is incorrect, and the crossover is south of the station, then we are on the uptown platform looking south.
You are correct, and the 1, 2, 3, Yonkers trolleys used to load dowstairs in the middle of the street. And the C streetcar ran through.
The No. 4 train is southbound on the old NYW&B Dyar Ave RofW, and the two tracks in the cut is probably the Franklin Avenue shuttle looking north from the portal north of Prospect Park Station.
Middle right, on top of second square from bottom. Isn't this Van Courtland Park-242nd St? Terminus of the 1 in the Bronx? Seems like 242nd St. needs some paint!
Here be the stairway to the 242nd Street Station on Broadway.
The LION is in hiding!
Thought of that after leaving the computer. If you don't get the book for Xmas,by all means look for it the next time you visit the Museum, which should be the next time you visit NY. I have a pix of the same location withoiut telephoto lens, but normal perspective, and with the Low-V Nostalgia train. Glad to share with anyone contacting me at daveklepper@yahoo.com.
LION has not the book. Maybe the zookeeper will give him one for Christmas.
Photo is at White Plains Road.
LION is hiding on the key-by box.
Looks to me like the junction for the yard leads off the Pelham Bay Line to Westchester Yard. But it
could be the similar junction at Willes Pt. Blvd.
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Subway Style, 100 Years of Architecture and Design in the New York City Subway
You will find detailed descriptions of grilles, turnstyles, benches, kiosks. all manor of signs. just about everything. The pictures are excellent, and it is also a good read. It is published by and available from the Transit Museum. I don't know the price, because I got it from a friend as a gift (a friend who was a tower operator at times for both the AT&SF and the SP in California, and then went into audio.)
Correct. Him is on that latch thing on the back of the key-by switch box.
I think he is on the black box in front of the signal. That was hard! He looks almost like one of those cottonwood things that blow off the trees.
What we have here is another "LION in HIDING"
NB: On SubChat a 20px LION has been added to the above photo, in case you want to find him.
According to the folks over at SubChat, water from a mineral spring had been getting in at that point, and there was no point in fixing it until that part of the issue was fixed. That pic is several years old, and I am told that remediation has occurred, but that has yet to be seen.
Amazed that they let the station become so decrepit. I had not been there since the GG morphed into the G,when the GG was still running through to Continental Avenue, Forest Hills, and I am amazed at the poor condition of the station. Hope remedial work is in progress.
You were good for a while, but that is BEFORE Sandy.
21st st. on the g in LI City after sandy
For a long time after the Dyar Avenue Line was operated with thru serive, the structure was still used with one track connection to the NEC in place and used on occasion for IRT new car delivery. I think the track was removed after the ramp was installed in the IND concourse yard leading to the Jerome Avenue elevated, which is the current track connection between the A and B divisions (for practical track connection purposes, as well as car overhaul, 7 is in the B division.) and all new car deliveries are via 39th Street and South Brooklyn tracks. After the 2nd Avenue El over the Queensboro Bridge was removed, the only track connection between the A and B divisions was via the LIRR Bay Ridge Branch, New York Connecting, and New Haven and that structure. I think the switch and single track were in when I had my 1970's GG1 New Haven - Penn Station cab ride.
Again, we are back on the Brighton Line, again looking south, but possibly the stretch between Beverly and Courtelyou, at the overpass at the Beverley Road Station, although possibly Courtelyou.
No, I don't think it is the Sea Beach Line. The Express tracks with new 3rd rail plastic shields, are in too good condition for it to be the Sea Beach. But I have not been there for a long time.
It is on the IRT in the Bronx, and that is why I took these pictures: This inactive structure is in better repair than the structure that the train runs on. You are looking at the old NYW&B tracks at the East 180th Street Station (AKA the Dyre Avenue Line.) This is the portion that NYCT did not use and it ends just a few feet beyond this picture. The tracks in the original station, a real land mark of a station, are intact, but are only used by MOW equipment. It was indeed built to heavy rail standards rather than to subway standards.
Here is the NYW&B Station:
I think it is most unfair of you not to provide good service for the imaginary people at 8th Street! Very discriminatory!
The previous photo might have been taken from a northbound F train on the ramp to the Church Avenue subway before the structure for the 9th Avenue shuttle was removed but after the track was removed, or from the J's ramp to the Archer Avenue subway before the northen part of the Jamaica Avenue el structure was removed. Problem with both these is that the structure looks too new and too heavy. So my guess is that it was taken from a Fulton Street el train headed to Est NY and the Rockaway Avenue free transfer to the A, of the structure leading to the new Grant Avenuue station that the A will use access the Liberty Avenue structure after the track kis installed. The train would consist of one or two C units and the next stop would be the old Grant Avenue station.
daveklepperAre you going to install the four switches to provide service to your 8th Street station?
Nope. The local tracks at 8th Street and 42nd street are not connected to any thing. They are just there to complete the model of the station.
The BMT at 8th Street has many mosaic roundels that I have photographed in anticipation of building this station.
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