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:
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
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?
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
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.
Oh, I have a question: what are those black things with graffiti on them in the foreground?
Finding a clean subway window is hard, isn't it? I always have trouble finding one not scratched into an opaque mess.
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?
Have the rabbits fight it out with the rats...?
I'll have to look into that movie.
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.
The rabbits adopted hares?
Johnny
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?
ROAR
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".
LION is dangling from the crane, he seems to be willing to go to great lengths to get that perfect shot
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?
They are 75 foot cars, but the R-68s are also 75 footers. Further down the line you can buy frankfooters.
My impression is that they are 75-foot cars, thus R-44 or R-46. Am I wrong?
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.
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!
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.
The Coney Island Yards. Good place for LIONS to hide.
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.
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