From color and typography I would say IRT. Dyckman St. Station. has a later style, which may not be original, but installed at the time of platform lengthening.
And the location might be the grille that separates the northbound or westbound platform from the LIRR underground RofW which includes a space for a track that once may have existed linking the LIRR to the IRT, reputadly used by August Belmont's private car Mineola on his trips to LI. (The car is at Shore LIne Trolley Museum, Branford and East Haven.
Atlantic Avene has three platforms, one in the center between the n and s Lexington Avenue tracks and one at each side of the station serving only the 7th Avenue line tracks. The center tracks are used only by Lexington Avenue trains and the side tracks only by 7th Avenue trains. Across the platform transfer between them is available at Nevins Street, an adjacent station.
Lion can correct me if I am wrong, since the last time I was there was about 18 years ago.
The Atlantic Avenue BMT Station has one center platform and serves only the Brighton Line, now the Q and B trains. Also part of the comples is the BMT Pacific Street Station serving the 4th Avenue, Sea Beach, and West End lines, the R, N, and D, with four tracks and two platforms, each between local and express tracks. Passeges provide free transfer between all three subway stations and also connect to the LIRR station concourse.
Here is a landmark tower on a landmark line.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Are you showing the full picture or did you crop it to make getting the answer more difficult?
From your question I might guess it is the Oak Point tower on the New York Connecting Rilroad's HG Bridge line, but I would have to admit I am just guessing. Just a bit more of the surrounding area would help a lot. (Oak POint is at the Bronx end of the bridge.)
Broadway/Myrtle Avenue Upper level?
Is the upper level at Broadway-Myrtle still there? Not removed after the line to Bridge and Jay (earlier to Brooklyn Bridge) was torn down? Why is it still there? Because that is where tower was and may still be and the tower thcontrolled switches that still are in use where the Metropolitan Avenue tracks split from the East NY tracks? But aren't those switches controlled from somewhere else now?
That is the tower. It is still there. It is dead, it controls nothing, switches are controlled from master tower.
The structure is still there. The existing lines are structurally dependent on this part of the structure.
ROAR
I don't understand the dependency. Does the structure still exist between that point over Myrtle Avenue to the point where the operating tracks from the active junction join (or joined) it? Isn't it more likely that the upper level was left in place because the tower was still in use when the line to Bridge and Jay was abandoned, and then nobody had a budget for removing the upper level when the control was located elsehwere?
Lion can only know what LION was told. Him not an engineer of any sort.
Here is picture of structure of old:
Ah, lowered-roof "Q's" on the Bridge-&-Jay - Metropolitan service. Do you have a current photo at the same spot?
Nope. I'll have to take more next summer.
Do you have a pix similar to the one of the tower, but with a much wider field of view?
It may be that the canopies over the two main level platforms are suspended for part of their lengths from the upper level sructure.
LION has no more pictures of that structure. Maybe next summer.
Here is LION in Tunnel:
Is that aswitch ahead?
or blurring from camera motion?
Actually, it is a double crossover. Yes blurring from the camera, after all the train is moving (I am at the rear of this train) There is also some blurring from the glass on the storm door. And besides that, I processed the frame with Photomatix HD software to add effects.
Effective, isn't it?
LION used to live in this neighborhood. Just Like NYC : Build a terminal with no door.
SOTHAT'S WHAT THE NEW LIRR TERMINAL LOOKS LIKE!! First decent picture I have seen of it.
And just think, my first visit to this area was well before 1940 as a small child, with my Uncle Nathan Lewis's drugstore diagonally across the intersection. And overhead the Fulton Street and 5th Avenue Elevateds with all the darkness, noise, and funky odd-looking equipment one 4-year-old railfan could possibly take in. Funky equpment: gate cars with RR roof, with arch roof, with RR roof and center doors, RR roof and convertable sides. And the verry odd looking C-types with their metal flexible passegways betwen each motor car on each end and a shorter stubby trailer between, with two large outside-hung slding doors on the sides of each of the three cars forming one :C" unit, usually to two-unit trains. Under it was the subway maze that still exists today. But with very different equipment, Low-V's on the IRT lines, and the steels and D-type articulateds on the BMT. (The IRT equipment older than the Low-V's genenrally did not make it to Brooklyin but was used mostly on the two West Side local lines, South Ferry to 137th and Broadway and to 145th and Lenox Avenue, which were equipped entirely with high-V's and "flivvers," high-V's converted to low-V's but not compativle for mu with them and the big maintanance headache). Of course, except for the deck-roofs on some cars, most IRT equipment looked about the same externally.
Right next door to it is the new Barclay Center. The arena is much larger than MSG, which is now one of the smallest venues in the leagues. It did not look all that big on the ground. The subway stop is now called "Barclay Center" (Everyone still calls it Atlantic Avenue), but they bought and paid for the naming rights.
Unlike the people over at Citibank who did not pay for station naming rites, and so that station is not named for the stadium, but guts small etters under the station name "Met's Stadium",
Enjoy keeping up with NY (and yes, Bklyn is part of NY alhough some natives like to think otherwise) changes. Thanks
Meanwhile:
DeKalb Avenue, and the N and D also stop there sometimes. Don't know whether it is the inbound (to Manhattan) or outbound platform however. Note the openings in the wall on the right that lead to the two center tracks, the bypass tracks, used by the N and D to bypass the station.
The (N) and the (D) no longer stop here. They are on the by-pass tracks.
Originally this was supposed to be a four track LOCAL STATION. When the BMT was given the Bridge Route, it opened up the wall and laid a fifth and sixth track. So now the wall track is to and from the Brighton Line, the inner tracks used to be the local tracks and run via the tunnel, and what were the Fourth Avenue express tracks are now the by-pass tracks and connect the Fourth Avenue express to the bridge.
Of old some of these trains did make the wall tracks and then were switched back to 4th Avenue. The no longer do this because the extra switching delays all of the trains.
Latest operation is B-Q-R at DeKalb with Montague St. tunnel closed R ends there; N and D bypass each on their own tracks.
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Lion,
I'm always amazed at how well your pictures come out in the very difficult to shoot subway. Mine didn't come out too great...
What software are you using? With what camera?
NW
If you check thoroughly, you will find that the N and D DO stop there between 1 snd 5 AM. At those times, the N runs local on 4th Avenue, and the R is just a shuttle from 36th to Fort Hamilton. During weekdays, with Monague Street tunnel shut down, the R does not terminate at DeKalb, but runs to Court Street to provide service to that station, to use the crossover there, and also because there isn't a way to reverse at DeKalb without serious interference with other routtes. On weekends and 1 - 5 AM Court Street has no service, is shut down, and the R has its regular terminals, 95th and Fort Hamilton to Forest Hills, running via the Manhattan Bridge. What applies to Court Street in Brooklyn also appllies to the following BMT-Broadway stops in Manhattan, normally served by the R through the Montague Street tunnel: Canal Street upper level platforms, City Hall, Rector Street, and Whitehall Street. There are IRT subway stations within a few blocks of the BMT stations closed 1 - 5 AM and weekends.
The D and N use the same pair of bypass tracks at DeKalb, and both normally, exception noted above, also run express on 4th Avenue. They do use different tracks on the Manhattan Bridge, but the switches are north of the defunct Myrtle Avenue station.
On the Manhattan Bridge, the B and D use the north tracks, formerly connected to the Broadway-BMT tracks to Times Square and Queens, but now connected via the Chrystie Street connection to the center tracks on Houston Street leading to the Sixth Avenue tracks and to The Bronx. The N and Q use the south tracks, formerly connected to the Nassau Street line for trains to and from Chambers Street (sunny summer Sunday Conley Island Expresses) and rush-hour Culver and West End trains looping via the "Nassau Cut" switches in the Montague Street Tunnel to and from Brooklyn, but now connected to the Broadway BMT tracks for Times Square and Queens. The south tracks are also used by the R on weekends.
Camera of LION is Canon EOS camera, with interchangeable lenses. LION has only stock lens that came with camera, him can afford no more. The BIGGER the Lens (in diameter) the more light it can gather. Collecting light is what photography is all about, but given the tiny focal length of a pocket camera, a small lens may be huge enough in proportion to the photo sensitive matrix. LION almost never uses flash: "Trix are for kids". A good steady hand, lean against a wall or railing if possible. (Neither flash nor tripods are permitted on the subway).
LION also uses an array of photo software. The most basic is the free IfranView, which is set up as my default viewer. Crop, rotate etc, it also permits me to transport my product to one of my other programs. Photomatix is an HD program, intended for use with bracketed RAW photos to combine three shots into a single shot with the best lighting from each frame is a good thing, but it also does nice effects with single frame jpgs. Serif PhotoPlux X7 is my top shelf product: every way equal to PhotoShop, but at 1/8th of the price. If you find a LION wandering about the frame, he was put there with this program. I also have a program called Perfect Effects 4 which has its uses. Helicon Focus is also in my tool box, (the free equivalent being CombineZ allows for multiple shots at different focal lengths combining them into a single well focused frame. An old copy of Adobe PhotoShop Elements is also on my computer because it has some effects that the others do not have.
Thank you for your interest in great photography...
looking north from the upper-level platform of the Broadway Junction - Eastern Parkway Station, "L" line, rear of train moving north west-bound from Canarsie to 14th St. and 8th Avenue.
Ah, yess, this is so. But what planet is it on? What kind of trees have purple leaves? LIONS do not even want to know.
The light at the end of the tunnel could be on a train...
For the artist in you, here is the original frame. The horizontal flaring of light is caused by the treated window between the car and the motorman's position. This prevents light from the car from disturbing the motorman's vision, it also allows him privacy since the passengers cannot see the operating position. You can see the outer storm door which gives that square frame in the middle. You can see the reflection of the inside of the subway car in that window, the grab rails, the number (upper left, reversed) and the reflection of the red LEDs proclaiming the next station.
You can even see my reflection in the outer storm door window.
Thanks, Lion!
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