Route of the Broadway LION
Route of the Broadway Lion, The largest Subway Layout in North Dakota
at Assumption Abbey, Richardton North Dakota
The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota
The layout deck is made of Celotex salfaged from the ceilings of rooms that
have been renovated. I fouond 10 sheets of this material in the old
gymnasium. It is lighter, easier to cut and more rigid than Homosote. It is aso
no longer made since it does not comply with modern fire codes fro building
construction.
The tracks are nailed directly to this material without any cork or other roabed
material. Most parts of the subway has not built up roadbed or ballast. In
places where I do require ballast, I use cat litter at a much more resonable
price that the product found in the hobby shop. I allow gravity to hold it in
place.
Subway trains run on electricity provided at 650 volts DC on a third rail. The
third rail on the Route of the Broadway LION are simulated with ⅛” square
strip wood painted brown on top to represent the portection board, and black
on the sides to represent the shadow under the protection board.
In the photo to the left, NYCT is
experimenting with a new auminimum
third rail with a hollow fiberglass
protection board. Below is a section of
NYCT track on an elevated structure.
There is a lot of detail in a section of
transit track.