LION Pics

Shaggy LION visits Coney Island. He came to get some hot dogs at Nathans. Him always comes for the hot dogs, but it seems you need a month’s pay to buy them now. LION wants to build a copy of that station on his train layout.

That is the door switch.

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A better description is those are the handholds for the conductor to hang onto when looking out to check the doors. and the door switch is mounted within.

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It’s nice to know that other people take the subway to Coney Island to get hot dogs at Nathan’s. The only disappointment is that you can’t get a good hot dog in New York, unless Portillo’s or Demon Dogs opens a stand in New York.

Yes. Under the box there are two triggers. the first trigger unlocks the second trigger which opens the doors. slapping down on the top of the handle releases the triggers and closes the doors. Those buttons on top are called the “Bottle Caps”. To close the doors, you “slap the caps.”

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The Bushy LION saw his friend Shaggy at Coney Island. Bushy thought he would have some fun climbing up on that cool curved roof. Poor Bushy!

Bushy LION is off to the Manhattan. Perhaps you did not know that there was a jungle at the Dyckman Street Station. The striped board next to Bushy is called “the Zebra”. I suppose that Bushy found out that this zebra was not edible, it is a marker for the conductor. He must POINT at the zebra before he opens the doors, thus assuring that the train is properly berthed in the station. Inspectors have been known to remove the zebra and then write up any conductor who points his finger in the air and opens the doors anyway.

Protocol in the case of a missing zebra is to confirm by radio or intercom with your motorman that the train is indeed properly berthed, AND do give notification to control that the zebra is AWOL and that you have determined that it is safe to open the doors.

Some conductors have even been known to open the doors on the wrong side of the train. So much for saluting the zebra. In Japan the train operator must point to each signal as he passes it and chant aloud an incantation to the spirit of the signals praising it for its aspect as he passes it.

Bushy LION is back in Brooklyn this morning, supervising the track work on the north bound express track, and also on the southbound local track. LIONS are impressed by the arboreal tunnels on this line.

Here is Bushy LION on the Sea Beach Line… (Sea LION???)

The line is in an open cut, the house on either side are on grade level. Those four pipes across the ROW do not carry anything. They were installed to keep the walls in place so that they do not fall over.

The track the LION is standing on is abandoned, the remaining middle track is for work or re-routing issues. West of the lion (behind the photographer) there are remnants of trolley wire left over from a time when trolleys plied this route and prior to subway service. The “Sea Beach” is one of several steam railroads that were pulled together to form the BRT (BMT).

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Not only that. Those overhanging trees are pretty nifty too.

Bushy, I don’t think we are in NYC any more.

So, where do you suppose the Bushy LION is, (Yes on the Front of a Locomotive, we know that.) What Railroad, and what kind of locomotive do you suppose.

Extra points, what city is the LION in.

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I’m going to guess that Bushy is hitching a ride on an RS3, somewhere in upstate New York.

Well, yes, I do believe it is an RS-3, and Yes, I think it is an NYS Railroad Company, but the photo was not taken in New York State.

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…The REST of the Story…

Refugees from Steam Town… Three Delaware - Lackawana RS3s help out on a steam excursion from Scranton to East Stroudsburg. The line is seeing more freight traffic. Water tank is still on the property, but is not used, the Fire Department comes out to fill the tender with water for the return trip.

The Puffer Belly had to go all the way to the Wye at Portland in order to turn around.

Is 50 degrees and raining outside. LION came inside the car to keep dry. This is an R-36 WF subway car, long since out of service, this one is in the Transit Museum. LION does not know where all the people went.

It is still raining in sunny North Dakota, oh well, the farmers need the rain. But then again, farmers will complain about the weather no matter what it is. ASLAN (Lord of the LIONS) has taken shelter in this vintage BMT car, It is a Multiple (Articulated) unit.

Bushy LION watches over the 207th Street Yard were some museum and work trains are stored. In the foreground is a Lo-V (Could be a Hi-V – they looked exactly the same 'cept of course there are no Hi-Vs left), behind that some red birds. The yellow equipment behind the LION is a work train of some sort.

Not far from 207th Street, Kingston LION watches over the Dyckman Street IRT station. Too bad the grafitti has been grafittied over, LION has the original on his layout. The Portal says “Fort George”, not the original Fort, but the neighborhood named for that fort. The tunnel is a deep bore, not “cut and cover”; less than 600 feet from the feet of the LION this becomes an elevated line above St. Nicholas Avenue before it turns to rejoin Broadway, or rather Broadway rejoins the rout that the subway was following all along.

Here is Bushy LION on museum car. Back in the day, straps were STRAPS. How would you like to put your clean paw on that thing. It is a good thing we got some Fairy Soap.

Here is Bushy LION, him visit the transit museum at the Court Street Station. Him has taken over the interlocking machine in the tower room. MTA knows that LION (and tourists) were coming to visit: all of the levers are LOCKED in the normal position. The machine is very much alife and works the signals and switches at court street which are required for the movement of museum stock.

Here is new modelboard LION is building for his HO scale interlocking tower: