CTA did a similar re-route in the mid-1990's. The Lake-Dan Ryan route and the Howard-Englewood/Jackson Park routes were changed to the existing Lake-Englewood/Jackson Park (Green) and Howard-Dan Ryan (Red) lines. These changes were also to equalize load factors and correspondingly improve equipment utilization.
Except for a possible emergency rerout, the B never went to Smith-9th and Church. He meant the D, which was swapped with B between Brigihton and West End not long ago.
At the north end of the system they swapped C with the B, with the former going to Washington Heights and the latter to the Concourse. I have been told these are all moves to equalize loading on the different routes, so the correct intervales and number of cars is appropriate for a specific route and both ends.
Actually, that is on the northbound side...I took a pic of the same sign not too long ago. Several unique things about Smith St. is that is it the highest station on the subway system and on the north end of the platforms you get a wonderful view of the Statue of Liberty surrounded by trees! The work recently completed on the station is fabulous, a must see for every subway and architectural fan; it was just reopened earlier this year.
The D line did indeed run the N route southbound this past spring but held the northbound schedules.
I had not been to Coney Island nor Canarsie if over 60 years, nor the M line ever...but this year alone I've ridden all the south Brooklyn and Queens lines including Coney Island twice to assure riding all routes in and out. The M line, of course the former Myrtle Ave. el, was ridden in the open cars in my very, very, very youth and probably south on Myrtle Ave. Now only the B train from Prospect Park to DeKalb has not been ridden along with the A train to Lefferts and the 3 train to New Lots need be done before moving to the surface lines of the Bronx.What has been perplexing to others is the fact that the MTA has made, and appears to always be making, route changes. We had one join us who was confused when I said we were riding the F train to Coney Island via Smith and Church because that was the B train when he grew up there not so long ago! I know the M train was coming out of Church to Metropolitan Ave at one time but now runs from Met Ave to Forest HIlls probably a scant two miles from each other! Nifty stuff.
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Well, there is only one Smith - 9th, served by the G and the F. In the past it was first served by the A, then the E, then both the E and the GG, then the F and the GG, then the D and the GG (the only line the D has NOT used regularly to Coney Island is the N-Sea Beach route, and it did use that in one direction 1-5AM once during work in the Eastern Parkway Brighton Line tunnels), then back to the F but the GG now the G. And for a while only the G during the rush with the F running express, and long before that a period with only the GG during the rush and the D running express. For most of its career it was the south terminal of the GG and the G, but not during rush hours when the D or F ran express. And not now, except perhaps 1 - 5AM?
It is an original-consruction sign, and is on the south platform for soutthbound trains, judging by the single tower in the background, with a lack of other tall buildings..
Those might be the R-46 cars, or the R-68 cars. The R-44s have all been scrapped, the 46s have a bit more area visible the 68s only a small 6x9 clear area for forward viewing. All of the newer cars R142, R143 and R160 class all have full size windows in the compartment door, but they are treated as I have said. You will not see the operating position, nor will light from the car interfere with the operation of the train.
It is against the rules for a Train Operator to cover the window. Some of the cars had a coat hook on the door which invited the T/O to cover the window with his coat. Those are gone from the new equipment.
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The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
The weirdness of the ENY photo posting was due to Lion's "artistic" manipulation of his original photo. I assure you, the panet is Earth and the leaves of the trees are green.
Last week our Ridewithmehenry riders found it unique that the glass in the doors between the passenger cabin and the motorman's cab had a black border or frame around a clear glass to see right ahead to and through the front diaphragm door but the border prevented one inside the car from seeing the motorman no matter the angle. Further amusing was the fact that on several of the trains...the L and A and S(A)....the motormen further blocked the field of vision by taping newspapers to the clear center of the window. I understand they have gotten into trouble for what they were doing in their cabs, some accusations by some who have no idea about the job, but since the window no longer allow anyone from seeing the motorman, what are they really hiding?
Thanks, Lion!
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Meanwhile:
Enjoy keeping up with NY (and yes, Bklyn is part of NY alhough some natives like to think otherwise) changes. Thanks
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",
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.
LION used to live in this neighborhood. Just Like NYC : Build a terminal with no door.
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?
Is that aswitch ahead?
or blurring from camera motion?
LION has no more pictures of that structure. Maybe next summer.
Here is LION in Tunnel:
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.
Nope. I'll have to take more next summer.
Ah, lowered-roof "Q's" on the Bridge-&-Jay - Metropolitan service. Do you have a current photo at the same spot?
Lion can only know what LION was told. Him not an engineer of any sort.
Here is picture of structure of old:
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