On the Brighton Line, LION is standing on the platform at Sheepshead Bay.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Avenue H on the Brighton Line is one of the nicest place on the system.
New Head House on the west side of the line.
On the trackway at the new head house
The "Old" head house, formerly the Ackerson Building, and now landmarked. They did a fine job of restoring it.
Inside the restored building
Dyckman Street:
The Old...
and the new...
The Broadway Line enters the tunnel (above) and here is one of the deep-tunnel stations. Here the ROW was deep bored rather than built by the cut-and-cover method.
Finding his way out of a tunnel, the LION finds himself on the Dyre Avenue Line in the Bronx. Riding at the "rail fan window" (RFW). Here there be vineyards?
BTW: This is an old photo. R-36s are no longer on the railroad.
Lion visits the Island of Coney. Change here for HOT DOGS!
What strikes me in this photo, and visits elsewhere in NYC MTA facilities is that they use huge trainsheds reminecent of the likes of Phila's Broad Street on the large scale and CV's St. Albans, VT on a small scale. A lot of enthusiasts miss out on a lot of railroading by dismissing subways and mass transit in almost any city.
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On the 14th Street / Canarsie Line, 8th Avenue is the Manhattan terminal. The green "starting" lights tell the conductor to close the doors. The doors have been closed, and the trains is gone.
Rockaway Park, Queens NY. aka Beach 116th Street, end of the line.
A northbound (D) train moves from the West End Line to the 4th Avenue Subway via the 9th Avenue station.
Jamaica Bay...
Broadway Junction, East New York, this is a southbound (L) train.
An Electric Locomotive at Neck Road.
East New York Yard, Brooklyn NY
The IND subway across Jamaica Bay. At the moment this line is under the Bay. Thanks, Sandy! (not)
On the Brighton Line...
50th Street
BroadwayLion The IND subway across Jamaica Bay. At the moment this line is under the Bay. Thanks, Sandy! (not)
Thx IGN
Nothing on Rockaway Island is working...there is no need for it either since the customers would all want to be leaving the Rockaways in favor of going to Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan. MTA website does not list it as being in operation.
Upon the Franklin Avenue Line
Metropolitan Avenue, Queens New York
Sometimes only a boat will do...
Hey, Lion, I gotta question.
I notis you are a proud North Dakota boy and I unnastan that. You live out there in prayrie lan. So howcome you build a moddel of Gotham sub way trains? You got some kind of sub way envy or somethin? Howcome your not buildin James B. Mountin's Great Big Baked Potato Rail Road?
The LION was born in New York City, back in 1948 (The same year that they introduced the R-10 subway cars.) LION lived in New York and the City until 1983 when him moved to North Dakota. You can take the Felid out of the city, but you cannot take the city out of the Felid.
LION has no interest in Coal Trains, in Grain Trains, or in Oil Trains, and that is what we have running out in the front yard. BNSF does that, I do not need to.
ROAR
LION been sloth in posting photos lately. Him is still here. And here is the Rockaway Line as it crosses Jamaica Bay. Sandy destroyed this crossing and it will not be back in service until summer time at the earliest. Big Surprise, Eh?
Well, Lion, you answered my question. But North Dakota is also home to the Empire Builder and also home to a lot of people who rode the Empire Builder to live in sod houses and build the Empire we all live in today. And there is a lot of interesting history about James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman and Northern Securities and all that stuff.
Lion is his own Empire Builder...you should see some of his videos riding the head end of one of his trains from his Bronx to his Coney Island plus the videos he shot while actually riding Mr Bloomberg's trains all over the real system!
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