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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Monday, June 6, 2016 4:58 PM

On the car's step? My Lord.

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, June 6, 2016 6:51 AM

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.

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, June 5, 2016 10:06 PM

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.

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Posted by Firelock76 on Sunday, June 5, 2016 8:37 PM

Ahhhhh, the Lion has powers.....

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Sunday, June 5, 2016 5:50 PM

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?

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Posted by Firelock76 on Sunday, June 5, 2016 8:34 AM

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.

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, June 5, 2016 8:27 AM

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.

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Posted by MidlandMike on Saturday, June 4, 2016 8:55 PM

On top of far left right platform roof, in front of signgnal (?) tower.

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Saturday, June 4, 2016 6:45 PM

I can not see a lion in the picture. How about a clue. Please.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, June 3, 2016 9:36 AM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 7:04 AM

Is LION conducting a signal test? Whistling

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, May 28, 2016 9:53 AM

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, May 22, 2016 1:49 PM

should clear all New York existing subway and elevated routes.  Washington's clearences are more restrictive, especially vertically.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, May 22, 2016 11:21 AM

Lion appears WASH metro needs one as well ?  Does the unit's  appearance indicate that it will clear all routes ?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:03 AM

Not on my layout yet, but here is the VAC TRAK

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by daveklepper on Saturday, May 14, 2016 1:57 PM
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE, ALL AROUND NEW YORK
 
SHOULD BE EASY TO TRANSLATE
 

 

BUT THEN I WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH JERUSALEM 
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Saturday, May 14, 2016 10:03 AM

I presume that he is patiently waiting for the 1 train to take him to South Ferry.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:53 AM

LIONS in New York...

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Posted by Firelock76 on Friday, May 13, 2016 5:08 PM

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.

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Posted by daveklepper on Friday, May 13, 2016 10:10 AM

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/)

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Posted by Firelock76 on Thursday, May 12, 2016 7:00 PM

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!

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Posted by RME on Thursday, May 12, 2016 11:16 AM

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Sephardim 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...  Wink)

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, May 12, 2016 8:46 AM

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.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, May 12, 2016 7:01 AM

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.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:50 PM

 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:49 AM

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.

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 4:07 AM

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.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, May 9, 2016 10:09 AM

http://broadwaylion.com/lion/bl-coneyisland160509.JPG

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Posted by daveklepper on Monday, May 9, 2016 4:58 AM

Your terrific model railroad with the Lion attop the columns at the near end of the right platform.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, May 6, 2016 9:26 AM

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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