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After 26 years, Rod Stewart finally lets the world see his breathtaking completed model railway (TR)
UK Daily Mail ^
| 11/12/2019
| David Wilkes
Posted on 11/12/2019 3:33:54 PM PST by DFG
He has long been known as a model railway enthusiast — even if at times he didn’t want to talk about it.
But now Sir Rod Stewart’s legendary layout — 26 years in the making — can be seen for the first time in all its finished glory.
The rocker’s astonishingly detailed 124ft long x 23ft wide model depicting an American city and its industrial hinterland in the 1940s contains hundreds of buildings, from trackside switchman shanties to vast factories and skyscrapers.
Called Grand Street And Three Rivers City, it also features a railway station crossed by numerous bridges at rush hour. There are period cars and lorries as well, of course, as trains, and it is all surrounded by lush landscape and dramatically lit in the colours of late afternoon sunshine.
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TOPICS: Hobbies
KEYWORDS: moddeller; railway; rodstewart; stewart; train
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:33:54 PM PST
by
DFG
To: DFG
Holly Crap.
Envy someone with a passion
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:36:33 PM PST
by
CGASMIA68
To: DFG
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:37:43 PM PST
by
mel
(There are only 2 races decent and undecent people)
To: DFG
OMG!!! FABULOUS!! Almost as good as “If you think I’m Sexy”!
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:40:01 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: DFG
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:40:13 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: DFG
Wow. This is so cool. It needs a Godzilla, though.
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:40:27 PM PST
by
Spruce
To: DFG
I’ll bet he has engineers with small faces on them.
To: DFG
The trains are awesome but it’s the infrastructure (buildings, bridges, rails) that make the show for me.
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:41:44 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:43:22 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: Spruce
“People helpless on subway trains scream ‘My God!’ as he looks in on them...”
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:43:31 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
Are the dimensions 124ft long x 23ft wide really that spectacular?
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:43:32 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: Larry Lucido
I see what you did there. 😄
To: BradyLS
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:43:37 PM PST
by
rainee
(Her)
To: DFG
To: CGASMIA68
Looks like the cars (autos) are on rails too.
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:44:23 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: DFG
Wow! Wonder what gauge the train is, HO?
To: Larry Lucido
Those pictures really tell a story.
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:45:39 PM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Hot Tabasco
So, how big is your train set?
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:46:18 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(Bipolars have more fun. No we don't.)
To: BradyLS
“People helpless on subway trains scream ‘My God!’ as he looks in on them...”
Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go! go! Godzilla!
To: DFG
AWESOME! Proving we are all Forever Young.
At heart
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posted on
11/12/2019 3:47:20 PM PST
by
smvoice
(I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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