The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
I has more than 50 such stuffed animals in my room plus others elsewhere.
Usually Bushy Lion makes his appearanve here. That one is Shaggy, and the other one in Kingston.
Found the L'il Lion sitting on top of the warp drive exhaust. Hope he doesn't get burned!
I think the little guy needs a name. How about Pookie?
There is no rhyme or reason to the IND... Perhaps thwy were going to use 125 as a terminal. LION knows not.
Startrek on the NYCT
ROAR
I appreciate this information. Too much to do to carry it with me in my head at the present time. But my suggesting 135th at St. Nich was stupid for another reason. I just remembered 135th on the 8th Avenue line is a very singular local statioln, since there are sidinges, one on each side, between the local and express tracks. There are six tracks through this local station, the only case on the entire system. Why? Never could figure that out.
If the LION is showing you a signal (or if you can see a signal in the LION'S picture) then all you need to know is the chaning system to know the location. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway_chaining to see how the system works.
The number plate 684 / V is an IRT number plate, the V chain on the IRT starts at 44th Street and runs south to South Ferry via 7th Avenue. The number 68 tells that it is 68 100' lengths from point zero or 6800 feet. Just over one mile. The number 4 on the plate 684 indicates that the signal is on track 4 noting that signal numbers do not reflect actual track designations.
Facing north on the IRT, the track numbers are 1-2-3-4 while the signal numbers are 4-2-1-3.
In the last photo the number is 94 MV which would be signal track 4, 900 feet into chain MV which is a loop designation where point zero in in Bowing Green Station.
Roll back and find the station with the plate reading 2554 / B. It is an IRT designation, which designates a Broadway Track from 96 street to 42nd Street (joining the shuttle or original track), Chain zero is Brooklyn Bridge, so the signal is on the number 4 track 25,500 feet from Bowing Green.
Now isnt that all fun
The upper photo is either 33rd Street, 28th Street, or 23rd Street on lower Park and 4th Avenue on the Lexington Avenue line, with 4 and 5 on the express tracks and 6 making the local stop. That is a four-track subway with the express tracks at a slightly lower level than the local tracks at each station. I think the design idea was that an uphill approach to the station platform and downhill leaving would save power and brake-shoes. Correction, the photo is elsewhere, the express tracks are not at a lower level. Possibly 135 and St. Nicholous on the 8th Avenue subway with B and C stopping and A and D on the express tracks.
I see you got to visit the old South Ferry station that was put back into service while the new one was emtied of flood water and repaired. The normal three-aspect signal light is modified to show only yellow and red, with the 10mph speed restriction, not a ten-car marker.
A`very typical view, could be almost anywhere on the unerground portion of the system, except for the white call-on light supplimenting the colored signal lights. Cannot figure what it is for, since there are no switches seen ahead. But the little lion seems to be resting on a small shelf on the fourth columns from the left edge of the picture.
Reminds me of the ram that commited suicide after hearing the song, "There will never be another ewe"
daveklepperLion,you are wrong. There is no elevated structure on Sea Beach just north of Coney Island.
Yup, Ewe Are Right! Is on the West End it is. LION BAD.
Lion,you are wrong. There is no elevated structure on Sea Beach just north of Coney Island. Indeed, the only N elevated structure, other than the Manhattan Bridge and its approaches, is in Queens, on the Astoria Line. My memory mistake was thinking the north wye switch, leading to north Coney Island yards, on the WEST END was just south of the Bay-50th Street Statilon, and you did photograph that wye looking east from a northbound train window, just befor the train entered the station, with the northbound platform within the wye. This photo is from the north end of the northbound platform of Bay-50th on the West End, now D, was B, and before that 3. You forgot which train you were riding when you left Stillwell.
The Pacific Street mosaic sign is on the 4th Avenue Subway's Barkley Center station, the line used by the R, N, and D. A similar sign on the station used by the B and Q would say Atlantic Avenue, as would signs on the IRT, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Call the place the "Barclay Center" if you must, Call it "Atlantic Avenue" if you like, but the tiles do not forget...
daveklepper Prospect Park on the Brighton has two island platforms and four tracks. Without the crossovers and the siding, it could have been on Liberty Ave, Brooklyn, or on the 7 in Queens. I'll stay with 138th and B'way.
Prospect Park on the Brighton has two island platforms and four tracks.
Without the crossovers and the siding, it could have been on Liberty Ave, Brooklyn, or on the 7 in Queens. I'll stay with 138th and B'way.
Besides, Prospect Park is in an open cut. All you will see down there it the wall.
Are we talking about that last photo with the pretty blue sky? What do you see in the sky but the new World Trade Center's Freedom Tower. That means you are looking at Manhattan from the south. The photo was taken from the Sea Beach line just out of coney island.
Is it at 238th and Broadway on the southbound platform looking south? (1 Line)
Li'l Lion's under the "Stay Off The Friggin' Tracks, Ya Dummy!" sign.
Isn't it amazing some people have to be told this?
And what a beautiful photo! Composition, color, everything!
On the Southbound side. LION did not take any northbound pictures.
RAOR
Beautiful photo of one of the oldest signs on the whole system. The little Lion is near the upper right corner. This must be located at 50th Street and Broadway, since the equivalent stop on the Lex. is at 51st, not 50th. This sign was part of the original 1904-opening subway construction. Don't know whether it is on the east (northbound) or west (southbound) platform of the No. 1 Line.
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Well, at least I got the IRT right, and 145th and Broadway is also in Harlem.
So the picture of the two F trains is a photo? Interesting the way it was processed, if that's the correct word anymore. I could have sworn it was a photo-realist painting. It's a great shot at any rate, you can practically hear the roar and rumble of the trains.
Is IRT train on the Broadway Line.
The wye is then definitely south of the Bay50 station on West End, now the D but probably was the B when you took the photo from the side window of a northbound train looking east. 145th looks to me like a modernized IRT station, not the 145th and Nicholous that the A uses, so it looks like the No. 3 line station on Lenox Avenue, renamed ? I think you are looking south on the northbound platform, you and the lion at the base of second column, very easy and obvious to find, a gimme, are already in Harlem and have no choice but to either exit or ride one stop north to 149th Lenox Terminal.
I see a jazz lion waiting for the A Train (it's the quickest way to get to Harlem).
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