Looks lonely. Where are all the the passengers? Rarely does one see an empty car in service in NYC
Probably because it is a museum car in the New York Transit Museum.
Welcome back Lion, and hopefully there is more!
Nah, that's one of the interiors in one of Brother Lion's HO subway cars!
Helluva modeler, isn't he?
Firelock76Nah, that's one of the interiors in one of Brother Lion's HO subway cars!
If thats HO, the lion is making his likeness by microscope. I think the museum suggestion is correct.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
LION is sitting by the window on the left. I'm also going to guess that this car was assigned to the IRT, which had a narrower clearance diagram.
CSSHEGEWISCH LION is sitting by the window on the left. I'm also going to guess that this car was assigned to the IRT, which had a narrower clearance diagram.
Correct you is. The R-12 has the same roof line as its IND cousin the R-10.
The R-11 was different. It was designed for the SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY as it was planned for an early 1950s opening.
Ow well, 70 years too late, what is the big deal.
OMG someone forgot to neuter or spay their pets.
What a fantastic interior in that subway car! Is that one of the Transit Museum's First World War vintage cars?
Indeed Firelock it does appear to be an early car, probably one of their restored gate cars. They date from before WWI. And of course (along with the R7A above) they were from the era when 'cloth seating' was not synonymous with 'vandal target'.
They didn't worry too much about vandalism back in those days, especially since all the cops had nightsticks and weren't afraid to use them on malcontents.
Love that old car though, has kind of a "Jules Verne-ish" look to it, doesn't it?
NorthWest Indeed Firelock it does appear to be an early car, probably one of their restored gate cars. They date from before WWI. And of course (along with the R7A above) they were from the era when 'cloth seating' was not synonymous with 'vandal target'.
Gate cars were wooden cars, and thus never ran underground. But then, the BMT did have lots of above ground lines back in those days. It was a BMT car since IRT cars only had tranverse seating. (Not so sure about the El lines in Manhattan).
IRT cars (Hi-V and Lo-V) had metal loops for standees, not these leather straps.
Some of the old El cars did find their way onto the BMT and lived out their days on the Myrtle Line.
This car is definetly a Gate Car and was on a Museum Trip through Brooklyn.
BroadwayLion ROAR
BroadwayLion NorthWest Indeed Firelock it does appear to be an early car, probably one of their restored gate cars. They date from before WWI. And of course (along with the R7A above) they were from the era when 'cloth seating' was not synonymous with 'vandal target'. Gate cars were wooden cars, and thus never ran underground. But then, the BMT did have lots of above ground lines back in those days. It was a BMT car since IRT cars only had tranverse seating. (Not so sure about the El lines in Manhattan). IRT cars (Hi-V and Lo-V) had metal loops for standees, not these leather straps. Some of the old El cars did find their way onto the BMT and lived out their days on the Myrtle Line. This car is definetly a Gate Car and was on a Museum Trip through Brooklyn. ROAR
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Bcgg8nhyg
http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?80394
I can remember when I was growing up in the city the only cars left with transverse seating were the BMT standards on the Canarsie line. All the rest had fibreglass longitudinal seating. It was not til the R-44's that transverse seating reappeared on the subway.
I do have to look at other sources as I have found on occasion my memory has failed me.
Nice to see the Lion back in these pages
We are looking west from Brooklyn's now D-train, was B, Ninth Avenue Station, possibly fromt the days when the M from Metroplitan Avenue ran through the Nassau cut (from Manhattan to the BMT tunnel in use), now out of service, and reversed on Ninth Avenue's center track.
The Lion appears to be at the end just before the back of the signal of the fence to the left of the center track.
The ramps with tracks going up lead to the 39th Street yard. The ramps going down are for the old Culver Line and their tracks end at the east end of the station, with the abandonement of both South Brooklyn railroad surface tracks and Culver elevated tracks between Ninth Avenue and Ditmas and MacDonald Avenues, where the F runs. The ramps in the distance going up, wihtout tracks, were for the Culver elevated trains,, and were out of service after the June 1940 Unification, and led to the Fifth Avenue Elevated to downtown Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Bridge. Current service at Ninth Avenue is only the D.
Gate cars ran underground at 9th Avenue Station, and in the Center Street - Nassau subway between the Manhattan portal of the Williamsburg Bridge and Chamber Street until there were enough "steels" to handle the entire Jamaica Broadway elevated ervice. The last were the 1300-series composite convertables, which were mosly steel, but sill had open platforms and gates and elevated car geometry, and were last used on the Myrtle Avenue elevated.
Nearly all BMT equipment, subway and elelvated, had some transverse seating. There were some center-door-equipped wood gate trailers that were bowling aliys, the only exceptions.
The remaining R-46's are the last NYCity subway cars with some transverse seating. These are the remaining 75-foot cars, longest train eight cars. All the newer equipment on the B Division are 60-foot cars, with ten-car trains, all bowling allys.
Your terrific model railroad with the Lion attop the columns at the near end of the right platform.
Well, your Stillwell Avenue, Coney Island station is getting there. Still some more detials to added, but worth seeing now anyway.
And I remember the old station, with the tracks on the left occupied by gate cars instead of steels during rush hours, and a Peter Witt double-end streetcar loading on the street instead of buses.
The best thing about Stillwell Avenue is that Nathan's is only a block or two away. Nathan's still has a thing or two to learn about making excellent hot dogs, though.
A nice representation of the South Ferry station. I was impressed by the skill of the motormen who worked this line, they had no room for error in spotting their train to line up with the gap fillers.
But their french-fries were (still are?) terrific.
In Israel they go by the British name, "chips." And those at my Yeshiva's dining room are as good as Nathan's.
Our cook can also provide a decent Pizza! But no lox and bagels and cream-cheese. Sepharidim around the Med say its against custom to mix cheese and fish. Never heard that from anyone in New York, but only here in Israel. So I miss lox and bagels and cream-cheese.
daveklepperSephardim around the Med say it's against custom to mix cheese and fish.
Maybe so, but probably not against kashrut. Where do those guys get their authority? Fish is supposed to be pareve- there are communities where fish and meat aren't eaten together (or at least off the same plate, and without washing the mouth out between) but why would there be any where meat and cheese wouldn't be?
Karo said there might be reason not to mix fish and milk, but that doesn't apply (according to any Talmudic reference known to me) when the milk is made into CREAM cheese. (Rennet to make hard cheese may have come from an indeterminate source... but that would be a hard prohibition, not a mix-n-match issue.) Additionally, in case there are any bean-counting Sephardim out there, I believe no one has proscribed fish and butter, so it's not the 'milk origin' or prospective 'milk content' that is a concern.
I'll reserve judgment until one of your folks provides the full chain of authority for their belief, complete with opinions and Talmudic source. But I don't think they're going to be able to justify it, and without that it's more a superstition than an attempt to follow G-d's law.
(Of course, using cream cheese with good lox is an abomination of a different sort, against good taste and common sense... )
David, you're a New Yorker through and through, and considering there's more Jews in New York than in all of Isreal DON'T let anyone tell you you can't have your lox, bagels, and cream cheese!
Who are those guys anyway? Sheesh!
I should add that along with all the other immigrants who found a home here in the US, and I can speak personally for the Irish and the Italians, Jews from the old countrys NEVER ate as well on the other side as they did when they got here!
Israel has excellent food also. The Yeshiva has a very good cook, who also studies and prayes with un occasion. I've been intruduced to some new Mediteranien dishes, which makes up for the lox and bagels and cream cheese. But you have inispired me. Since nobody showed me any Rabbinic or Biblical source for the ban, on July 4th I'll publicly display eating lox, bagels and cream cheese, together. Easy to buy the ingredients at the supermarket. This will be my own "Declaration of Independence." And I will follow it up by singing the Shaker "Simple Gifts" hymn (English, Hebrew, and Arabic, of course!).
Should they wish an encore, I'll give them Old 97 and Chattanooga ChooChoo, but I have yet to translate them.
(The latter with grits and eggs subsituted for ham and eggs ---in Carolina/)
Yeah, go get 'em Brooklyn!
Lady Firestorm says GO FOR IT!
And you may want to add to your singing selections "Sidewalks Of New York" while you're at it, with your hand over your heart during the process, of course.
LIONS in New York...
I presume that he is patiently waiting for the 1 train to take him to South Ferry.
Not on my layout yet, but here is the VAC TRAK
Lion appears WASH metro needs one as well ? Does the unit's appearance indicate that it will clear all routes ?
should clear all New York existing subway and elevated routes. Washington's clearences are more restrictive, especially vertically.
Is LION conducting a signal test?
I can not see a lion in the picture. How about a clue. Please.
On top of far left right platform roof, in front of signgnal (?) tower.
pretty certain loooking west from the eastbound platform of the 4th Avenue statilon on 9th Street on the massive concrete IND structure used by the F and G trains today, but opened with the A, a year and a half later usurped by the e, swithed to the f when the 6th Avenue Subway first opeend, then switched to the D when the IND took over the Culver elevated structure from Ditmas south to Coney Island, then back to the F when the Christie St. connecitonj opened and the D was switched to Manhattan Bridge and the Brighton. The G was extened from Smith-9th to Churth in this Century.
The one before is looking soiuth frojm the south end of the southboud local platform on the Brighton Line with a northboiund Q shown, the first stationj south of Newkirk Avenue. After I inspect a map I might return with the station name. The D used to use the express tracks, now it is the B.
The little feller's on the far right side, under the facing awning of that tower and sitting on what looks like a steel girder. Look for the orange dot.
Ok, How does the Lion get to such a spot without violating all Rules & Regulations? Does its minions use a fishing pole to get him positioned?
Ahhhhh, the Lion has powers.....
The 168th Street station pix is on the lower level, reached by elevators, used by the 1train, (IRT), not the upper level used by the A and C, now. Cannot figure out whether we are on the southbound platform looking over at the northbound, or visa-versa, however.
Firelock76 Ahhhhh, the Lion has powers.....
Apparently so... as there was no LION in that photo.
But seeing as people expect LIONS, there is one in this photo.
On the car's step? My Lord.
There's no Lion in that photo? Then who's sitting on that (what looks like) a rusty girder that appears to be coming out of the tower window? That fuzzy orange mane is unmistakable!
Or maybe the Lion DOES have powers, if he's operating independantly of the Broadway Lion, and without the BL's knowledge!
LION enlarged the photo in question, and guess what? THERE IS A LION IN THE PHOTO! RIGHT WHERE ewe said it was. He must have been up there for a wild.
OK, LION is hiding on this photo of the old Myrtle Avenue interlocking tower. The rest of the southern part of the Myrtle line is long gone but this old US&S lever tower remains, albeit with nothing to do.
This part of the structure was not removed because it is part of the existing Jamaica and Metropolitan Avenue lines and is required for the structural integrity thereof.
ROAR (in HO scale)
Probably the only subway in North Dakota, aside from the sandwich shops.
I see 'im, sitting on top of the stairway, waiting to pounce....
Nice lookin' layout! I believe you have a website concerning the same, don't you? I'm sure we'd all enjoy a look.
Silly me, I just clicked on "Route of the Broadway Lion," and there it is! I'm going to spend some time enjoying the site!
LION needs to come to Chicago and inspect the L. I'm not sure how he would react to the grade crossings on the Douglas Park and Ravenswood lines.
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LION is indeed passing through Chicago this summer...
Him will be passing through CHI (Empire Builder to Capitol Limited) on August 17th. Comes in at 3:55 pm (sic) and departs at 6:40 pm.
Him do that in reverse on the Aug 30... Ar 8:45 AM, depart at 2:15 PM,
Not much time to visit the L, but I shall certainly try.
BroadwayLion
I see 'im, staying (very wisely I might add) in the doorway of that facing vestibule so he won't be a cat on a hot tin roof.
No. 160612...
He's on the LED in the first row third from right almost directly above the numer plate on 6698.
Well done train shed, Lion!
That's him? I thought it was a bug that had gotten into the layout and was about to suggest Brother Lion get some Raid Indoor Fogger before things get out of control.
I've used it in the "Chugger Barn" here at the "Fortress Firelock." Good stuff.
NorthWestHe's on the LED in the first row third from right almost directly above the numer plate on 6698.
If thats where he is, I only see copper wire and bulbs. Did the Lion get shrunk to the size of an led?
Yes, him was a 10 px LION.
No. 160613
It looks like LION is trying to take a trio out of the city.
Now what miserable SOB hung the Lion out to dry on the fence?
Somebody call PETA!
Looks like LIRR at LI City.
No. 160614
Cool! The little fella gets to drive for a change!
I told you the Lion has powers.
is that looking norh from B'way jc. ENY on the "L"?
daveklepper is that looking norh from B'way jc. ENY on the "L"?
Yup, that be the place.
Firelock76Cool! The little fella gets to drive for a change!
His powers evidently don't extend to running on the correct track or switching the headlights on instead of taillights. Or maybe it's just that he has bitten or clawed his way into the motorman's cab at the rear of the train for a brief sojourn between snacks...
LION in HIDING No. 160615
I see 'im trackside under a tree, looking for prey.
I think he'd have better luck on the Cross Bronx Expressway, who knows how many Impalas are running around loose on that road?
Overmod Firelock76 Cool! The little fella gets to drive for a change! His powers evidently don't extend to running on the correct track or switching the headlights on instead of taillights. Or maybe it's just that he has bitten or clawed his way into the motorman's cab at the rear of the train for a brief sojourn between snacks...
Firelock76 Cool! The little fella gets to drive for a change!
O silly me, I was so intent on looking for the Lion I didn't pay attention to which way the train was going. At least I wouldn't have gotten run over.
Hangin' out in the flower bushes- strange, as it's impossible to drop down to the platform for a quick snack...
Now what's he doing up there in one of the platform lights? The only thing he's going to catch up there are bugs when the sun goes down and the lights come on!
Of course, he'll have plenty to choose from, especially if he's got a taste for moths. Remember "Dairy Queens" in the old days, in the middle of a summer night?
No. 160919
At the bend of the fence pole in the middle of the picture.
Looks like a Washington Metro cable problem on the outside of the rail to the right of the signal base
Electroliner 1935 At the bend of the fence pole in the middle of the picture. Looks like a Washington Metro cable problem on the outside of the rail to the right of the signal base
Probably not, it's not arcin' and sparkin'.
Was the last picture along Jamaca Bay?
Yes, Jamaica Bay... I remember the first time I went across there, the bay seemed so HUGE, and in those days there was a doubble fare to that part of the railroad. You paid an extra token to get out or two tokens to get in.
LION in HIDING No. 160621
On the box just upper left of the lower 'JB5'. That was hard!
The Lion's got excellent taste in hot rods. Wonder how fast that thing goes with that rocket engine on it?
That is not a rocket engine, it is a Jet Engine, from a 747, I have been told. Not the big engine, that little one in the thail that provides hotel power to the aircraft.
The Blower (this one is JB5 --- so there are four others out there) is pointed down at the tracks at the FRONT of the machine and is used to blow snow (and ballast) off of the ROW. Really bangs up equipment if used in the lay-up yard.
There are newer ones that are conventional blowers, does not disturb the ballast as much, but does break the windows of neighboring houises and has been known to dump heaps of snow on people while they sleep.
What the heck, there is a price to be paid for keeping the railroad running. At least the railroad CAN claim to have been there first.
I believe that the CTA has one or two of those for its ground-level yards.
Oh, I know it's a jet engine, and a snow-blower on steroids, i'm just having a little fun here.
I wonder, what would happen if they kept the exhaust nozzle in the horizontal, pointed that rig down the tracks, and let 'er rip? Might be a helluva ride! Maybe not like when the NYC put those jet engines on that RDC, but close!
I would guess that the signal light facing the water is on the north side of Jamaica Bay on the A line branch serving the Rockaways, on the route formerly used by the LIRR. Looking southeast.
Somewhere in Brooklyn?
Vanna, show me a 'F'
Is that photoshoped or did you climb up there?
Is not photoshopped. I ma standing on the Smith 9th Street Platform which is at eye level with that sign. Here is LION rendition of sigh...
BroadwayLionIs not photoshopped. I ma standing on the Smith 9th Street Platform which is at eye level with that sign.
Nice job but Mr. Lion does look to be on the sign and not "hanging by a thread" nor "GREEN SCREENED". So how does Mr. Lion appear to be fifty feet in the air?
The sign is 18 stories tall. The LION is on part of the letter "F". The lettering has ledges, probably strong enough to stand on.
That building was once upon a time a theater, there used to be a street in front of it. Allof the land and the buildings were joined together by the KenTile Company, which in turn was destroyed by the Asbestos Cricis. Law sutes and all.
The sign was only removed this past year.
As for the 1:87 scale picture, the LION is *not* on the sign, but is elsewhere, and has not been found yet.
So how did the lion get up there?
Electroliner 1935 So how did the lion get up there?
As I've said before, "The Lion has powers..."
On the HO layout, I think I see a little orange furball in the window just to the left of the route placard.
Firelock76On the HO layout, I think I see a little orange furball in the window just to the left of the route placard.
Nope that not him.
Well, Lady Firestorm says if that's not him in the car then he's dead under the train!
She had to put her glasses on, she's not happy.
On the other hand, the Lion under the train might make a great "Daily News" or "New York Post" cover. They just LOVE that stuff!
'ROAR
Poor Lion got run over by a train.
Poor Lion got run over by a train. Got hit in the head by the track trip device. Between third rail and top rail bottom track between the 3rd & 4th lamp.
THAT is NOT a LION. The LION is NOT on the tracks. Him is ALWAYS in a safe place.
OK, Lion's on the fence, just to the left of the third lamp from the right.
Lady Firestorm found him this time. Now she DEMANDS to know just WHERE L'il Lion is in the subway car shot!
Eithet that, or she's sending Ginger our attack basset after you!
Lion says "Roar," Ginger says "Ah-rooo!"
Firelock76 OK, Lion's on the fence, just to the left of the third lamp from the right. Lady Firestorm found him this time. Now she DEMANDS to know just WHERE L'il Lion is in the subway car shot! Eithet that, or she's sending Ginger our attack basset after you! Lion says "Roar," Ginger says "Ah-rooo!"
Camoflaged in those orange rocks, I might have guessed.
Come on man, that ain't fair! Then again, the jungle ain't fair either...
I think the Lion on the fence photo is actualy on your model railroad and the apartment building and tree are a photo diarama scenery effort on your part.
No. 160705
LION appears to be a qualified IRT motorman.
I don't think that is a LION...
Got 'im! Sitting on the post those five yellow thingies are leaning against.
I need some Tylenol now.
What ARE those thingies anyway?
Those are five lamps. They are wires in series so that they can be connected between ground and the third rail. Normally they are white work lamps to provide light in a tunnel, these are yellow and take the place of a yellow flag.
So THAT'S what those thingies are! Thanks for the input!
It's a wasted day if you don't learn something new!
No. 160708
On the second-from-left beam holding up the blue pedestrian walkway.
No. 160709
On the bottom left bolt of the red sign, about to take a bite out of the zebra...
The red-bird front-of-train No.5 pix must be on the Dyar Avenue line. Is it at the pocket at the north end of the line?
More on the lox-bagels-cream-cheese front. A week ago Jerusalem's Congregation Sheariey Ratzon, (Gates-of-wishes) hosted the Hazzan (Cantor) of the historic Bevis Marks Synagogue of London, and he gave an excellent lecture after morning services on how different traditions reshaped acient melodies to be more in tune with the surrounding cultures. The is was at a buffet meal served after the well-attended, and as usual very beautifully sung, morning service. Shaarey Ratzon, Bevis Marks, and my New York synagogue, Shearith Israel, are all Western Syphardic, meaning Jews that left Spain in 1492 but did not go to Islamic/Mediteranian countries, my congregation's founders having gone from Portugal to Brazil and then to New Amsterdam. The meal had four varieties of herring, plus salmon and another nameless fish, plus several variaties of cheese, and lots and lots of bagels. plus tomatoes, and several varieties of lettuce. I ate next to a more regular congregant who said he was raised in the Sephardic tradition in Turkey, where they do observe the ban on mixing fish and cheese together. But he ate as hearlily as I did.
David, before you put away those bagels (and the rest of that good chow, sounds like it was delicious!) did you remember to stand with your hand on your heart and give everyone a rousing rendition of "Sidewalks Of New York?"
Oh, and who has the better bagels, Jerusalem or New York City?
The Hazzan from London was the star of the particiular Shabbat, and it would have been out of place for me to try to do anything solo myself. On July 4th, however, at the Yeshiva, I did intend to keep my promise doing American sogns. I sang the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts at lunch, "The Gift to be simple 'tis the gift to be free..." in both English and in my Hebrew translation: "HaMattnanah likhiyot pashuut hamattanah likhiiiyot khofshee..." to applaus and cheers, and then the rabbi-teacher present thanked me and started a lesson with similar thoughts, (of course with appropriate Talmudic references) preluding my continuing with railroad songs. But after lunch, several students asked me questions about American history, and about the Jewish participation in the American Revolution (I termed it the American War of Independence, wich to me ios amore accurate description).
No Jerusalem bagels are as crispy as those I used to eat at B&J Bagels on West 72nd Street, closer to Columbus Avenue than Fine and Schapiro's restaurant. But I never ate toasted bagels in New York. The Yeshiva has a fine toaster, just repaired it this morning to prevent some previously fraid wires causing a short), and toasted bagels here are an even greater treat for me. Rather than cream or cottage cheese, regular yellow cheese toasted with the bagel and with some tomato slices is a supurb snack. Sometimes add a sprinkling of powdered Cinamon. (Cinamon is mentioned as one of the spices used in the Temple sacrifices, kinamon.) Reminds me of the Classic Trains story about the youngster who had his cheese sandwhich cooked on the shovel in a steam locomotive firebox. Would this combination be even better at B&J's? Is B&J still in business? When I ate there regularly, it was owned by an ex-Israeli couple with an ex-Palestinian Arab waiter who was my first Arabic teacher, and his name was Yasser. (Of course he also spoke Hebrew as well as English.) Anyway, next time you are at West 72ne Street, check it out and let me know.
If a Seagull flys over the ocean, what flies over the bay?
No.160711
Baygul. This time with herring. So is it the north end of the Dyar Avenue Line?
daveklepper Baygul. This time with herring. So is it the north end of the Dyar Avenue Line?
Yup that is where that photo was taken, but what about the LION on this latest photo.
Not much chance of me getting to W.72d Street David, but if I ever do I'll check and see if B&J's is still around. If the place was that good they just might be. Maybe Brother Lion can check it out on his next trip east for a "Subway Safari."
When the wife and I are up north it's usually Paramus NJ, and there's a great bagel place there on Route 17 South called "Fresh Bagels." Any given morning there's a line out the door! Everything there is great but I just LOVE the salt bagels. There's another "Fresh Bagels" on Saddle River Road in Fair Lawn that's just as good.
And Brother Lion, I blew up that last photo 300% and STILL can't find the Lion! You shrink him any more and HE'S going to be the prey! Imagine the ignominy of the "King Of The Jungle" getting eaten by a New York City rat!
Google maps does not find a B&J's on W 72nd st but does find a 72nd Street Bagels @ 130 W 72nd street and lists 72bagel.com for a web page.
Think it is the same place. Used their contact form to ask and ask if "Ray" knows where the former owners are. And Yasser.
No. 160712
Quite the large lion hanging out above the portals down the line!
MUCH better! Nothin' like the view from a fire escape for spotting tasty prey!
No. 160716
I think that's Li'l Lion taking a midday siesta in the tree, about 1 o'clock high over the train. Looks like a splash of orange up there typical of our little hunter.
Can't make a positive ID though, I tried blowing up the photo but I loose resolution above 150%.
I don't think that I climbed up a tree.
No matter how fuzzy the photo might be, the LION is never out of focus.
PS I think he is somewhere on the LEFT side of the photo.
Oh for cryin' out loud, is that him by the top of that blue post on the left, not on it but just to the right of it?
Yup, that is him...
No. 160718
On the right side platform just in front of the first fully visible column.
No. 160719
No. 160721
No. 160723
No. 160726
Newkirk Avenue is an interesting place. There is no road here, never was. It is a pedestrian concourse, the subway is in an open cut to the left. The Dunkin Donuts is a good place to eat, the LION stops there every time him visits New York. Usually get a Big Buttered Popply Seed Bagle, and maybe some Lemon Donuts to go.
Speaking of donuts...
No. 160728
Could the Lion be on the track 2 signal one section from the near track 2 signal. Beyond the two eyes (reflections) between the rails of track 1 (nearest the camera)?
Um, No.... he could not be there.
Nah, he's doing his best smokestack impression atop the grey structure.
NorthWest Nah, he's doing his best smokestack impression atop the grey structure.
Yes, this be so. Besides you ought to know that there are no smokestacks on an elevator housing. Big Fire Department nonno.
BroadwayLionNah, he's doing his best smokestack impression atop the grey structure.
He got his fur smoked. I didn't recognize him in his gray trench coat. As the old visine commercial, "He got the red out".
I hope lion landed on his feet!!!
THE NEW STILLWELL AVENLUE TERMINAL AT CONEY ISLAND
YOU OUGHT TO POST A PIX OF YOUR MODEL FOR COMPARISON
OF COURSE WITH THE LION
No. 160807
I don't see the lion in this one, but I don't care, that's one fascinating looking station! Where is it?
Lion is on the end of the other platform.
This is 168th Street on the IRT West Side Line, one of three bored from bedrock and one of the deepest on the A Division. Because most of the stations were built close to the surface as a cut-and-cover operation, these stations had to be designed differently. The others are 181st Street and 191st Street.
Fascinating, thanks!
The station definitely has the appearance of a hybrid from a New York IRT station and a Chicago CTA station in the State Street subway.
The Last Train from Chernobyl
Yes LION is in Hiding.
Who's dat coming down the escalator? Do I spy the Broadway Lion? Meow.
Escalator? They have (working) Escalators on your subway system?
Him is on a Stairway.
No. 160812
Euclid Avenue, ROAR
I don't see him, but don't tell me that poor little lion's down there in all that filth! Yuck! He's gonna get sick!
LION is not down by the track. Him not go in unsafe places. Hime is perched on a conduit above the signal.
Well, that's good. I'm sure LION could leap out of the way of any approaching train but it's those insidious germs in all that garbage along the tracks that has me worried.
I mean, we don't want LION to get sick and die!
LION is going to ride tonight's Empiire Builder MOT-CHI-WAS-RMT.
Him will take tablet (in carrion) and a laptop in the checked bag. Don't know if I can use WiFi on AMTK or even if the tablet will work. I'vv visit the diner while on vacation, but I cannot post pics until I get back since I cannot access my servers from outside of our newtork.
Him will C U in September....
BroadwayLionHim will take tablet (in carrion)
Watch out for the Vultures for they like dead Lion meat, (carrion).
Sorry for the bad pun. Not.
Have fun Lion, and as the song says, "See you in September..."
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