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.
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The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
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!
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