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Steve, I especially like the Museum of the City of NY black and white picture. If you zoom in, you can see a display of sheet music for popular tunes (surely an endangered species already as fewer and fewer people were learning to play musical instruments by then), and to the upper left, nearly hidden by copies of Detective and True Experiences, there is a copy of Railroad Magazine. A real time capsule, this pic. Thanks.

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Only thing I would add is a “catwalk” along the benchwall in the tunnel.

Totally agree. When I began planning the tunnel module, I used the original IRT as a model, which did not have a catwalk. I did not realize that since the subway I am running is a BMT model, the tunnels it ran through would have had the catwalk, unlike the IRT. You are the first person to mention that, and the omission of the catwalk has been bothering me for quite a while. Maybe after I finish the other modules, I'll go back and install the catwalk.  I left more than enough room in the tunnel to add one. Thank you for your perceptive comment.

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Looking for some suggestions regarding how to proceed now that that the newsstand is finished. Major components remaining are (1) the station wall along the tracks with supporting steel connecting to the main support structure, (2) the rest of the station steel support structure (the pic shows the near end - more than half remains to be done at the far end), (3) the mezzanine at the end of the station with lunch counter, and (4) the stairs from the platform to the mezzanine.

The mezzanine needs the station supporting structure and also the station wall to position and support it properly. But building those support structures make it difficult to then work around them to put in the stairs and the lunch counter.

I thought of building the stairs first and positioning them on the platform, then using that as an anchor to "grow" the mezzanine and the supporting structures from and around it.

Ideas and comments welcome. 😊

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@BwanaBob posted:

Your work is peerless, simply amazing !  Not to be a wise-***, but are you going to include a rat here and there at track level?

Nah. In this subway, the trains always run on time, there is always a vacant seat, the staff are polite, the tunnels and platforms are clean and free of vermin, and all the passengers are above average. (Thank you, Garrison Keillor). 😊

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