After 26 years, Rod Stewart finally lets the world see his breathtaking completed model railway (TR)

UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/12/2019 | David Wilkes

[neverevergiveup]

"Wow. This is so cool. It needs a Godzilla, though."

And the Stay Puff Marshmallow man from Ghostbusters..

[GreenLanternCorps]

Yes, he models American prototypes. His layout got a nice write up in Model Railroader not that long ago.

[dangus]

OMG. Watching that .gif screen-load in slow-mo and realizing what he’s holding, I’m like, “No! Don’t do it!!!”

[Kommodor]

That’s (to misquote Oddball) a mother beautiful train set.

I’m jealous. Guess I’ll have to get to work on mine now. :P

[smvoice]

Lol! Me,too! Thanks for the video of him crashing the train. I am STILL LMAO!!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I had heard he was into model railroading but I had no idea it was to this degree.Very impressive.Im sure it has all the latest DCC with IRR control.That system revolutionized model railroading.

[Hot Tabasco]

So, how big is your train set?

I don't have one, what's your point?

Are legitimate questions no longer allowed on this site?

[SuperLuminal]

Everything pretty correct, except the missing columns a black smoke and the fake clear atmosphere...

Nevertheless, I love it... Takes me back to the days, between 1940 & 1943, when our neighborhood guys (ages 7-11) used to hop the slow-moving Boston & Maine coal trains and ride them for about 7-miles before they got to where they could pick up speed...

Then we’d hike back along the tracks for about 3-miles picking up coal for our houses... In those dark days (after Dec 1941) of no money, rationing, air raids, and Western Union constantly delivering the announcements to most of the neighborhood families about their men dying or missing, not too many adults hassled us about riding coal trains..

[Alberta's Child]

This one in New Jersey is epic. It's not far from where I live.

Northlandz

It's in a converted warehouse building. More than 100 trains running simultaneously on 8 MILES of track.

A Day at Northlandz

[Bonemaker]

I've been meaning to get back into model railroading like Sir Rod!😎

[gibsonguy]

He should have been arrested for releasing that song, that and “hot legs” constitute a double homicide. Now “gasoline alley” and “forever young”’on the other hand...

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

[Flick Lives]

Are the dimensions 124ft long x 23ft wide really that spectacular?

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As many HO-scale layouts are 4 ft by 8 ft, yup this is one huge layout.

[Hot Tabasco]

Go to the link to see, it is very tall!

Largest Model Train Show of the World

[reed13k]

124ft is more than 1/3 of a football field (300 ft or 100 yds goal to goal)

So 124 would take you from one goal to jut past the 41 yard line.

23 ft would be about the 8 yard line wide.

That’s pretty darn big.

[Flick Lives]

He said his father had once given him the advice that ‘every man needs a hobby’.

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I guess he took his Dad’s advice to heart!

[Hot Tabasco]

That’s pretty darn big.

For a private collector I guess that's pretty big............

See the post above yours, #54.......

[nesnah]

Dang, we must be neighbors. That’s about 5 miles down 202S from me.

[SoCal Pubbie]

His layout has been featured in Model Railroader a couple of times but I guess it wasn’t “finished.” Rumor has it his divorce from Rachel Hunter was caused in part because he preferred time with his trains to time with his wife!

[Kakaze]

That,my friend is a story that should be told!