Happy New Year, Lion!
Lion is on the cap of the closest tank with the "JB5" sticker on it. (Cap is on top of the tank.)
Those things are really loud, right?
Happy New Year Lion!
Say, if they keep that jet nozzle at the horizontal, instead of pointing it at the tracks, how fast fast will that thing go?
I am told that this is an engine from a 474. No not the main propulsion engines. That little one in the tail for hotel power.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Firelock-too fast!
747 tail engine, interesting. Still an impressive unit.
LION trade the Beech 116 Street Yard for the cozy confines of 14th Street.
BTW: You will need to find all THREE LIONS in this photo.
Oh, a challenge!
1-On wire to the right of the rightmost pillar at top.
2. On woman wearing white's hand touching her head, center of frame.
3. On women at left, on left side of red-yellow-green purse.
Very good. Only one LION today...
Lion is on the back of the man in red's shirt.
That platform edge on the right looks pretty rough!
What's wrong with *that* Platform...
Your 14th Street Station photo is on the 7th Avenue line, but I cannot figure whether you are facing east or west. At Dyckman St., some old faulty workmanship and the effects of weather and possibly loads far in excess of design estimates have cause the shown section of the northbound platform to buckle or collapse and we see a very temporary repair. Probably that very night after you took the picture, starting at 11pm, a complete redo of the section of the platform took place, open for business the next morniing by 6am.
That platform is worse than the one I commented on a couple days back!
Call the fire department, a cat is in a tree at Dyckman St! Oh, nevermind, it's the Lion .
daveklepperProbably that very night after you took the picture, starting at 11pm, a complete redo of the section of the platform took place, open for business the next morniing by 6am.
Well, not exactly. That station has been out of service for MONTHS, maybe a whole year, but it is now repaired and back i service. Nice job too...
LION admires his handiwork!
Say Lion, I just found this website today, don't know if you're aware of it:
www.subwaynut.com
All transit rail, all the time, from ALL over. Have a look everyone!
worth a look
Glad to see it doesn't neglect the Pacific Northwest!
Now back to the Lions.
Yeah, talk about a man on a mission! SubwayNut looks like he doesn't want to leave ANYONE out!
SubwayNut is well known to me, I have several of his audios in my train room, intermixed with music from the 60s and 70s.
Here, the LION is on the Flushing Line....
Lion may correct me, but my memory says 1 & 3 were railroad north, in this case also geographical northbound, and 2 and 4 southbound.
The Brooklyn end of the Canarsie line is a case with geography and railroad designations are opposite.
The Coney Island Yards. Good place for LIONS to hide.
Looking eaastward towward MacDonald Avenue with the "F" Culver elevated structure and the south end of Avenue X station, from the yard. Old redbirds now work motors, with R44's or R46's behind.
OK, I see the little Lion's doing what comes naturally, hiding in the tall grass waiting for an impala to come within striking distance.
Poor little guy, this is Coney Island and not the Serengeti. Any impala he sees is going to have "Chevrolet" on its flanks!
With the fluting that is visible at 400X zoom, I'd say those might also be R68s, it is hard to see if they have a middle one between the outsides.
My impression is that they are 75-foot cars, thus R-44 or R-46. Am I wrong?
They are 75 foot cars, but the R-68s are also 75 footers. Further down the line you can buy frankfooters.
Along with the post of this that came to me via email, there is an advertisement selling gun cases. Is someone hunting lions in this area?
Johnny
LION is dangling from the crane, he seems to be willing to go to great lengths to get that perfect shot
When the movie came out, many of us agreed that the chase in "The French Connection" was the best and most hair-raising chase ever filmed, even better than "Bullitt".
CSSHEGEWISCHmany of us agreed that the chase in "The French Connection" was the best and most hair-raising chase ever filmed
what are you going to do with all of those hare raising rabbits? Take them to Coney Island?
The rabbits adopted hares?
62nd Street looking west i woiuld guess, despite the new building since I was there last and the name change on the corner store. If I remember correctly, the old tower is at the north end of the station.
In the classic era some West End Locals, via Tunnel to Nassau Loop, Via Bridge to Brooklyn, would change ends on the center track here, running express between here and 9th Avenue in the REVERSE direction of the rush hour. Others did terminal at Bay Parkway, often running light between there and C. I. Yard, directly, not via Stillwell Avenue Station. The expresses to and from Times Square, local on the el structure of course, also reversed at Bay Parkway during rush hours, with three car gate trains with subway shoes running from there to Stillwell. For some reason I remember them painted an odd shade of green, differen than other el cars. 1200-series wood with steel underframe motors flanking center-door (c.d.not used) gate trailers, 900's?
During rush hours the four western-most tracks looked like an el terminal at Stillwell, with only gate cars, since Culver steels revesed at Kings Highway and gate shuttles (usual BMT brown color) ran 9th Avenue - Coney Island. Of course before June 1940 these were Park Row - Coney Island elevated trains.
Have the rabbits fight it out with the rats...?
I'll have to look into that movie.
THERE'S the little guy! Doing a little "sidewalk supervision" and going over the foremans job sheet with him.
Is there anything about subwayin' the Lion doesn't know?
Finding a clean subway window is hard, isn't it? I always have trouble finding one not scratched into an opaque mess.
Oh, I have a question: what are those black things with graffiti on them in the foreground?
They are wiring pedestals. Could be signals, could be power, but they look like splice boxes for signal cables. They are all over the place. You can see that they are sitting atop a concrete conduit that runs parallel to the track.
NYCT has four levels of snow plans. Well actually I wrote to the MTA Inspector General and now they have 5 levels, and I do not know if my letter had any effect, but they have adopted a fifth level according to mu suggestion.
Anyway, here we are at Snow Plan 5
How does one mu snow plans? I can see the possibilities of the three A-Div. redbirds mu'd together, one married pair and one solo car, possibly, but how does one mu snow plans?
The snow plans mostly have to do with protecting equipment during a storm. Laying up trains on the express tracks and out of the exposed yards is one step, delaying planned work is another.
LION'S snow plan 5 calls for a graduated shutdown in service, and is supposed to let people know hours in advance as probable shutdowns, and not having passengers stranded on stalled trains.
LION made a map to esplain the plan of him:
You got the low risk and at risk portions of the f-&-G Culver Line reversed! North of Church should be low risk and Macdonald Avenue at Risk. You cannot effectively run down Madonald without going past Smith-4th and Smith-9th, unless you want to run a C. I. - Ditmas service, not very useful.
Lion is in the tree in the background, above the snow pile.
I would suspect that the Rockaway Lines would be shut down, especially if there is spray onto the track.
daveklepper You got the low risk and at risk portions of the f-&-G Culver Line reversed! North of Church should be low risk and Macdonald Avenue at Risk. You cannot effectively run down Madonald without going past Smith-4th and Smith-9th, unless you want to run a C. I. - Ditmas service, not very useful.
LION plan to keep most running as possible. McDonald is on open el with snow that falls down to street below. The Smith Viaduct is on a concrete slab subject to accumulating and drifting snow. These McDonald passengers can indeed change to the 4th Avenue line if the viaduct is blocked.
With the Brighton and the Se Beach blocked, and with the West End subject to FUBAR at both ends of its run, you darn well want that McDonald line running if you can have it.
And just what do they do when they get to Ditmas Avenue? Are they better off than when they were at Coney Island? Look at your map. You are not providing service from Macdonald Avenue to 4th Avenue, only as far as Ditmas.
The concrete viaduct can be kept in service becauss it is four-tracks wide, and snow that cannnot be shoved over the side can be piled up on the center tracks with the local tracks kept open. At least that would be my stratergy, and I agree that the F line is the best to keep open to Coney Island, because all three of the others have extensive deep cuts. The West End between 9th and 4th Avenues, mostly in tunnnel but also a rather long cut.
The dot at 4th Avenue is the wrong color.. Trains would have no trouble getting there since the station is half underground anyway.
The Plan is for shutting down the system in the face of a storm: getting people home or to their emergency work place. Once they start cleaning the tracks, every thing is running again, albeit lamely.
Yes, , but the switches are not arragned for turning back at 4th Avenue, and you would have to run to the switches just east of Smith-9th. Since you have to clear the track there, you miight as well go all the way to the west portal.
The Culver is the logical line to devote all efforts for keeping open anyway, half-way between the underground IRT Nostrand Avenue service and 4th Avenue.
Switches? Who needs switches. You can run a single train shuttle between there and elsewhere if need be. You can come into the station and wrong rail all the way back to Church if you have to. We are thinkng extreme emergency operations here, just one step below a total shutdown.
If it can be cleared, it will run. But what if it cannot? Where do the plows have to come from, and how will they get there. Yes the Smith Viaduct would be among the first to reopen, bit it is more likely to close in the first hours of a storm than the rest of the McDonald (who had a farm--EIEIO)
And on his farm he had a cow, but the LION took care of that out of paw.!
At the Island of Coney the LION inspects the (F) [as in frankfurter train) Maybe some Widebeests will come in on the nest train. If not, Nathan's is just down stairs.
Nathan's is an impressive hot dog shack, it would be better if they served decent hot dogs like Portillo's.
BroadwayLion At the Island of Coney the LION inspects the (F) [as in frankfurter train) Maybe some Widebeests will come in on the nest train. If not, Nathan's is just down stairs.
Funny how the BIG CATS and Bears et al are at the north end of the zoo, and all of the big tasty beasts are at the south end of the zoo. I wonder if they planned it that way.
YOu may be inspecting the F, but you are on the platform used by the D, at the north end looking south.
The 4th venue station is also at risk from snow blowing in as well as falling, and it is partly in a cut itself.
Church Avenue has plenty of underground siding capacity for a snow blower and a plow to prepare for the storm.
Doesn't matter what your RR interests are, Stillwell Ave is a must see for all. Four different subway lines (D,F,N,Q) all terminate here at own terminal tracks; view of the yards and facilities; view of all station tracks and movements from walkway; across the street from Nathans; a maze of switches, interlockings, tracks, signals. My RWMH guys have been spellbound. If you want to model, take pictures, revel in the number of trains and train movements or stand in awe of the yards and facilities...then this is a must stop for any railfan. Then, take a short two block trip to the Boardwalk and the Atlantic Ocean and feel the breezes. Any season will do.
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Nathans for the world's best french-fries and hot-dogs for those that don't know .
french-fires equals chips in Great Britain, but I don't know about hot-dogs. Anyone?
Anyone miss Shofar hot dogs as much as Lady Firestorm and I do?
All these comments on food, but no one has found the lion?
He's on the light at upper right.
D on the Brighton. Still was when I moved to Jerusalem. Now the B instead. And D is on West End, Lion was taking his picture from the North end of the West End plaatform. And the Q remains where it was, but is now the full-time Brighton service with the B not running late nights and weekends.
I don't know about anybody else but I've always had problems finding a good hot dog OR a good pizza outside of Chicago.
Ewe may say as you will, but Nathans is the BEST hot dog ever made, although I must say I am disappointed in the packaged variety that they sell in the stores. Maybe they have more preservatives in them or something.
No time for a 1:1 scale photo today. Here is 242nd Street on the Broadway LION. The LION is hiding somewhere on the table.
What a beauiful if somewhat simplified recreation of the northen end of the 1 line. I think I see a lion below the clock towards the clock just beyond what looks like an ac power supply for some electronic equiment with a cup on top of it.
Recreate the scene with Low-V's instead of SMEE's and some Third Avenue yellow and red streetcars on double-track with overhead wire (no condudit this far north, only to 225th St.) under the elevated structure, with the wire hung from continuous longitudinal wood boards close to and under the structure.
Yonkers lines 1, 2, and 3 reversed under the north end of this station with a double crossover unitl Spring 1952, and the C car ran through from West farms Sq. to the Yonkers Line at 262nd street to winter 1947-1948, with the track still usable to end-of-summer 1948.
SMEE cars are all that I can get cheap enough. The LION is not on the chalk rail (That is a chalk rail, the rest of the blackboard is covered over by the layout) near the clock. But you have gotten closest to him.
Under the clock, there is a paint bottle. To the left of its base is a small clear plastic cup with the Lion on it.
Wow, that was hard.
Hey, I was there first, just used different coordinates to get there. I did not mention the chalk rail, "just beyond the power supply" is the same location as to the left of the paint bottle.
You can still build a streetcar liine underneath! Maybe you will restore streetcar servoce to Yonkers by doing so!
Yes, you were, Dave. Sorry.
Where is Lion today? Wiring?
Might be a LION at Parkside Avenue.
We are near the south end of the northbound platform of the Parkside Avenue Brighton Line Station, looking south, and Lion is doing some train watching from the fifth or top floor open window of the apartment house across the tracks, the window in the white area of an otherwise brick colored building.
Lion is carefully balancing himself standing on the apparently decorative post on the discolored fascia of the platform canopy located above the rear of the first gondola. Although there are features that confuse me, my best guess is the we are looking northeast from the Coney-Island-bound platform of the Sea Beach (N) 8th Avenue Station, the first stop east of 59th and 4th Avenue.
It is on the IND. It is the 4th Avenue station.
LION is where you said.
My memory did not have so much of that station open to the sky and more in the tunnel. I can use the correction. Did you crop the photo to omit the portal portion of the station?
A local small cat with Lion's color has adopted me. It does not ask for food, just petting and general affection. I am bound by the Yeshiva's rule that Yeshiva students ARE NOT TO FEED THE CATS!!!
But the guards of the private security company would regard thqt as interference with Civil Liberties, and so one does feed this cat. (They are just as likely to be Israeli Army vets who are Circasian or Arab Christians, or Druze, very convenient when we need an electrical switch turned on on the Sabbath.).
You caught some R127s or R134s. They are on my list, having avoided me so far.
Cats and trains...life is good!
On the Crosstown Flushing LION
The tan sign with border on top about center frame has a drain pipe behind it. Up this is an elbow, LION is on top of this.
LION is leaning against the second pillar waiting for his train to arrive.
Lion is on the bottom right of the 2, on the right upper corner of the section roughly parallel to the outside square.
Lion is on the white light at upper left. Good to see more pictures, thanks!
Not above the white light itself, but rather above the closest (or highest in the photo) of its reflections off shiney cross beams framing the subway structure. (It is not a light, it is a reflection of the light.)
Actually, it is the light pouring in through the tunnel portal at Grant Avenue. The LION is standing on the right side of the tunnel at that point.
The dark dot in the opening?
There is a white stripe running down the platform. Lion is next to that, about the same distance from the camera as the train.
Looking west (RR north) at an eastbound (RR southbound) A train at the Grant Avenue Station in Brooklyn.
daveklepper Looking west (RR north) at an eastbound (RR southbound) A train at the Grant Avenue Station in Brooklyn.
Looking compass south at Metropolitan Avenue in Queens at an arriving (M) train.
My face is red but a lot has changed at Metropolitan Avenue since I was there. Compass South there is also RR South. The current M reverses railroad direction between Essex and Delancy Street and Houston St. and 2nd Avenue or Broadway Laffyette.
Ridewithmehenry trouped though there last fall...Stopped at Fresh Pond Rd for lunch and realized there was at one time a trolley line under the route of the M train and a bus garage, too. What hit me was that I had remembered seeing the line with trolley an eon or two ago as a kid! Today, weeds and bushes to the south and bus garage, nee trolley barn, on the right!
Yup
My memories also. Rode the Mytle Avenue trolley its last night. Also Jamaica Avenue.
LION is perched atop the arrow on the sign so he can stay out of the way of passengers. I'm not familiar with New York so I don't know the location. LION should really visit Chicago.
Well, I think he is at 8th Avenue....
Back to Dyckman-200th Street looking sourth on the southbound platform with Lion post at the bottom of the drain pipe about 2/5ths up from the bottom to the top at the extreme left edge of the picture.
I have no idea where this is...however I think the Lion on the red board at the platform edge, at right.
BroadwayLionMetropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and New York City Transit (NYCT) officials yesterday marked the completion of a two-year, $31 million rehabilitation project at the Dyckman Street Station.The project included the addition of a state-of-the-art elevator from the station mezzanine to the southbound platform, and major repairs to the station's exterior and interior finishes, MTA officials said in a press release."We have been able to fully rehabilitate this historic station improving the structural aspects and customer amenities while retaining the unique architectural features that have made this station so visually special," NYCT President Carmen Bianco said.After years of deferred maintenance, the finished station now has new concrete platforms, a refurbished Fort George Tunnel Portal, new platform windscreens, new canopies that include salvaged wood rafters, and a refurbished control area with restored historic finishes.In addition to the Dyckman Street Station work, MTA officials noted the completion of $23 million in repairs at five other NYCT stations: 207 Street, 215 Street, 225 Street, 238 Street and Van Cortlandt Park-242 Street. Platform edges and canopies were replaced at all five stations.
The other end of the LION...
This is, of course, the original Broadway line South Ferry Station, temporarily in use while repairs post-Sandy are made to the stub-end new station. And Lion appears to be on the stairway at the west end of the platform, pixwise, just to the left of the middle green post.
I'd love to see the pix when you finish modeling this station in detail!
I don't think that there is a LION on the stairs.
LION is sitting on top of the arrow on the green post.
Is he glued there or did he metamorph into a caterpillar?
Lion appears to sit on the horizontal cable runs on the concrete wall, slightly to the left of half way between the 1st and 2nd light fixtures.
Dave is right. On the lower picture, Lion is the top of the black corrugated wall.
Yes, considerably to the right of the station sign.
But what is a Pelham train doing at Dyckman? No "1" sign avialable?
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Tried, but could not finish the project, Had to go to Morning Prayer (And Breakfast) you know.
Pic is there now so white screen is gone.
LION is perched on the lower number plate on the signal.
I tried but could not find Lion there, but did find him a bit father away on some kind of control case just behond the signal to the right of the track. Trying to figure out whether the two-platform express station in the distance is Roosevelt Road on the "7" Flushing Line or East 177th Street on the "6" Pelham Line. Wish my memory was better.
That looks like some slight discoloration of the black paint, perhaps some slight rust, and is repeated ellsewhere. But there is a tannish orange thingamige horixontal bar in front of the middle dark lense below the top bluish green linght, and at the left of the end of whatever the horizontal bar is is what I see as the Lion with the color the Lion has always been. Or what ever else could it be? There is a black equimenet thing that it can use for support at that location.
Enlarging the picture, I think I see him on the 544. There is a vertical bar with a ball on top at the end of the bar, is that what you are seeing?
In the pix just to the left of the ball, fuzzey, vertical, orange.
Left side peeking through the tree limbs.
Wow I finally figured out this thread.
Jerry
I love this. Like when I was a boy trying to find Waldo.
Sorry Lion took me a while trying to figure out what you were doing here.
I'm just showing off my pictures. I just like hiding a LION in there, and others like finding them. Others like trying to figure out where on the NYCT the photo was taken.
Looks like you are looking soiuth from a spot on the overpass over the south end of the Prospect Park Brsighton Line Station with the rear of a southbound Q.
And Lion is standing on the 3rd rrail cover board at the extreme left of the picture on the track where the third Franklin Shuttle train was (is) stored when only two are running the shuttle service.
The location of the train is correct, the location of the LION is not.
The LION is on the LEFT, he is up on the wall under some of that nice green foliage.
LIONS have a lot of savy, and would not put themselves down on the tracks or any place else where they could get hurt.
I apologize. Of course Lion woult not stand on the cover board. It only LOOKS like Lion is standing on the cover boad, but actually Lion is a bit higher and to the left. But what does Lion use to keep him at that height next to the wall, between the cover board and the wall. Glue? Or has Lion metemorphed into a caterpiller?
Oh I know, Lion is hanging by his paws from the foliage!
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