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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Stunning detail.
Sung by Ronnie Wood who co-wrote the song.
The most incredible miniature railroad I’ve ever seen.
Heh. I wonder if he’ll let Ringo run a Thomas on the track?
This would have never happened if Maggie hadn’t gone back to school.
When he wanted a station for the set he had as a kid, his father got him a guitar instead ! Good call, Dad!
I see what you did there.
Funny
The surrounding cityscape is awesome!
You know I try to have a forgiving nature but sending me to be subjected to that is too much.
Lol!
Not a fan of bagpipes?
Making the assumption that the Sales Staff will let You keep doing this on their floor without stopping or having You arrested, You might want to have the Wife/Girlfriend pack a lunch for You.
PS- If You manage to pull this off Please be sure to have somebody video You doing this and Post it for Me😀.
Thanks in advance.
I love trains. I really, really love trains. Real trains and model trains. I once accidently found a YouTube video of real trains and spent the next several hours one afternoon watching nothing but videos of trains. I’m the type of gal who will sometimes pull off the side of the road near a railroad crossing just to watch a train pass by.
My dad would put up a train display at Christmas and my older brother had a Lionel set from back in the 50’s. But never anything like this. A simple oval or two under the tree, some plastic houses glued together from a Plastic Town kit, fake trees and fake blanket of snow, lots of fun but not much on realism.
Many years ago, when I was still married, my husband and I went to a model train show and thought we (me actually more so than him) might get into the hobby. We went to several other shows and bought model railroading magazines, went to some hobby stores. But ultimately to do it “right” was beyond our means financially and timewise at the time, but I admire those who can and do.
After my divorce I did buy an HO starter set for myself for Christmas and built a simple plywood display table and had fun with it by adding a Rudolf The Red Nosed Rein Deer character set and a Simpsons set complete with a Quickie Mart and the Abdominal Snow Monster to the display. My many little nieces and nephews loved it when they came to my house and I loved watching them play with it, just like I did when I was a kid with my older brother’s trains.
“Sir Rod told Railway Modeller magazine that scenery and structure modelling, rather than locomotives, trackwork or electrics, are his forte.”
And that is what I found the most interesting part of the hobby among the serious hobbyists. The attention to the most minute detail and the artistry. Those buildings, that scenery, those aren’t from store bought kits and simply glued together in an afternoon.
I recall one of the model railroading magazines showing how to build rail stock from kits but then how to replace and upgrade the wheels and the couplers and how to add details like adding rust to the wheels and weathering the cars to make them look real, adding rust to the rails, how to make everything from the smallest bits of gravel and rocks and rail ties look absolutely realistic. It takes some serious devotion and a lot of time to build a display like Sir Rod’s. Good for him and I’m glad he shared it with us.
.....”Rumor has it his divorce from Rachel Hunter was caused in part because he preferred time with his trains to time with his wife!”....
Love me, love my dog.
What do toy trains and women’s breasts have in common?
They are meant for little boys, but their daddies always want to play with them.
Is it a “Downtown Train”?
Reminds me of Phil Collins and his extensive Alamo Collection, which he wound up donating to the Alamo Museum.
I’m not sure. I think ‘yes’ but I can’t get downtown to change my mind. It’s the coldest winter in almost 14 years
Being of Scottish descent l love the pipes but hearing them abused like that is just painful.
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