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Brian Sheron’s Long Island Rail Road

Brian Sheron’s Long Island Rail Road is a 27 x 48-foot HO scale model railroad that depicts Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the north shore of Long Island. He built the layout, featured in the August 2024 issue of Model Railroader[1], in three phases…

Brian Sheron’s Long Island Rail Road

Brian Sheron’s Long Island Rail Road is a 27 x 48-foot HO scale model railroad that depicts Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the north shore of Long Island. He built the layout, featured in the August 2024 issue of Model Railroader[1], in three phases…

Northern Ireland Executive Needs a Logistics Strategy

To realise fully the potential of Northern Ireland’s economy, business group Logistics UK is urging the Northern Ireland Executive to develop and deliver a NI-specific logistics strategy. 
In its new report “Logistics: underpinning Northern Irelan…

John Deere tractor and lorry crash on York Road in Bickerton

The crash on the B1224 York Road, Bickerton, happened at around 3pm on Tuesday (June 25).
North Yorkshire Police said it involved a yellow HGV and a green John Deere tractor. One of the drivers was taken to hospital and discharged that evening.
The for…

Classic cars ‘upcycled’ to electric

He is now building six Land Rovers for a client in Dubai. Another is in the Hamptons outside New York.”Buyers are usually wealthy people who love the idea of something that is now fully sustainable and reusable,” he explained.”It’s the ultimate upcycli…

Long Island Rail Road expansion

The multi-billion-dollar expansion and upgrade of Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a strategic component of a plan to transform New York’s regional transportation infrastructure. Spanning 120 miles from Montauk, Long Island to Pennsylvania Station in M…