The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
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.
Might be a LION at Parkside Avenue.
Yes, you were, Dave. Sorry.
Where is Lion today? Wiring?
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!
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.
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.
ROAR
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All these comments on food, but no one has found the lion?
He's on the light at upper right.
Anyone miss Shofar hot dogs as much as Lady Firestorm and I do?
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?
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Johnny
Nathan's is an impressive hot dog shack, it would be better if they served decent hot dogs like Portillo's.
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.!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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