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LION 2014

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:24 PM

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.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:56 AM

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by narig01 on Thursday, February 6, 2014 8:14 AM
The weeds and rust on the centre express tracks mark this as being the Sea Beach line. I guess the lion just wants to get pointed out.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 5:30 PM

Well, I think he is at 8th Avenue....

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:57 AM

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.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 9:34 AM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 12:56 PM

My memories also.   Rode the Mytle Avenue trolley its last night.    Also Jamaica Avenue.

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Posted by narig01 on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 5:37 AM
I remember when I was a kid that place had wooden platforms. And the last runs of the Myrtle Av El trains. How times have changed.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, February 2, 2014 5:47 PM

Yup

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Posted by henry6 on Sunday, February 2, 2014 3:34 PM

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!  

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, February 2, 2014 3:08 PM

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.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:19 AM

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.

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Posted by daveklepper on Saturday, February 1, 2014 12:11 PM

Looking west (RR north) at an eastbound (RR southbound) A train at the Grant Avenue Station  in Brooklyn.

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Posted by NorthWest on Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:59 AM

There is a white stripe running down the platform.  Lion is next to that, about the same distance from the camera as the train. 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, February 1, 2014 11:55 AM

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:02 PM

The dark  dot in the opening?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:34 AM

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.

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:26 AM

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.)

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Posted by NorthWest on Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:04 AM

Lion is on the white light at upper left. Good to see more pictures, thanks!

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:47 AM

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Posted by NorthWest on Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:57 AM

Lion is on the bottom right of the 2, on the right upper corner of the section roughly parallel to the outside square.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:55 AM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, January 24, 2014 11:53 AM

LION is leaning against the second pillar waiting for his train to arrive.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, January 24, 2014 10:16 AM

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Posted by NorthWest on Thursday, January 23, 2014 8:07 PM

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.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:38 AM

On the Crosstown  Flushing LION

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Posted by NorthWest on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:54 PM

You caught some R127s or R134s. They are on my list, having avoided me so far.

Cats and trains...life is good!

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:42 AM

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.).

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:42 PM

It is on the IND. It is the 4th Avenue station.

LION is where you said.

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:35 PM

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.

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