Brian Sheron
Long Island Rail Road
Brian Sheron was born and raised on the north shore of Long
Island and has fond memories of the Long Island Alco C420 diesels with
their 1964 World's Fair paint schemes rolling past his high school in
Greenlawn, New York. Like so many others raised in the New York
metropolitan area, the imprint of Manhattan is a permanent part of his
heritage.
Brian has, therefore, chosen to model the Long Island
Rail Road (LIRR), including its connection into Penn Station. The
impression, as you turn the corner into the first layout room, is an
overwhelming sensation that you are approaching Manhattan. The more you
examine the details of the urban canyons, the more you feel like you're
in the city, right down to the Sabrett Hot Dog venders.
Brian's
layout captures the mainline tracks from East Northport to the
Hicksville Divide to Jamaica Station in Queens as the scenery gradually
shifts from a suburban to an urban atmosphere. He has extensively
illuminated the buildings in the towns of Huntington and East
Northport, making for beautiful nighttime scenes. The model of New York
City includes a unique cutaway of the LIRR's underground platforms in
Penn Station and elevated subway tracks with two sets of circling
trains.
Brian's layout was featured in the September 1997
issue of Railmodel Journal. The layout is DCC-powered by Digitrax.
Brian hosts frequent operations using manually generated
waybills.
Click here to view his 2008 layout tour.