http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=489193&in_page_id=1773
Cheers
Roger T.
Home of the late Great Eastern Railway see: - http://www.greateasternrailway.com
For more photos of the late GER see: - http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l99/rogertra/Great_Eastern/
Cool! thanks for posting the link.
Got all but one of Rod Stewart's albums over the years, if you don't count that "Songbook" stuff...
Can't wait to see this layout! I would've thought he paid to have it built, but it sounds like he did it himself.
If the title - something about Rod built this city - is a play on that Starship song....ah, cute?
thats funny I swear I had an idea to use star's in MR
you know some had trains, cuz trains are cool
well I was promply told off, never happen we don't get ideas from fourm
and here is a quote" 10-09-2006, 12:54 PM
Dear MR readers,
It looks like I should clarify a few things that have come up in this thread.
One is the idea that we can get content from the forums. Actually, as Mark noted, pulling content from the forums would require reading thousands of threads. That's not possible. We are, however, happy to read proposals for stories, as noted in the thread that's always at the top of the forum:
http://www.trains.com/trccs/forums/870084/ShowPost.aspx
Another thing to note is that there's a world of difference between photos that look good on a screen and photos we can use. We run photos at 300 dpi (not 72 dpi) and we strongly prefer RAW images (or slides - remember them?). Our digital photo guidelines are here:
http://www.kalmbach.com/kpc/objects/pdf/digital-image-submission.pdf
The move of Trackside Photos to the back of the magazine about 3 years ago had no significance other than that we wanted to have some good photos at the back of the magazine. (It was a little text-heavy back there.) The popularity of the department didn't change with the move.
Finally, regarding the stories and photos we run: We can't buy a story if the author doesn't send it. If you (or one of your buddies) have a great layout or great how-to technique, propose a story. That's how guys like Lou Sassi, Paul Dolkos, Lionel Strang, Pelle Soeborg, and Joe Fugate (and, for that matter, yours truly) got started. We're always looking for our next author, and we pay as soon as we accept your story for publication. We can't buy everything we review, but your chances are infinitely better if you submit a manuscript than if you don't.
Thanks for reading MR, and best wishes.
Terry Thompson"
I think I had a good idea and I have another
K
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Just goes to show that we're Forever Young.
The cover's been on the MRR homepage for a few days now. I look forward to reading it, I rather suspect he did the work, he strikes me as 'old school' despite the supermodels and glitz.
Jeff But it's a dry heat!
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Building the CPR Kootenay division in N scale, blog here: http://kootenaymodelrailway.wordpress.com/
"Rust, whats not to love?"
trainboyH16-44 wrote:Makes me wonder whether I should have gotten a guitar instead of a pair of Athearn SD40-2s when I was still in the single digits...
Naw...You've got to be a psycho like Brittany or a rapper to make it big these days. Stick with trains and stay off the front page of the Enquirer...
Did anyone else notice in the Rod STEWART (spelling people !) article that his layout "boasts 100 feet of track" ??? .... my yard boasts more than that !
Mark.
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Mark R. wrote: Did anyone else notice in the Rod STEWART (spelling people !) article that his layout "boasts 100 feet of track" ??? .... my yard boasts more than that ! Mark.
I noticed that, but if it is just meant to be a single scene, rather than a full railroad, it might not be as it sounds. It seems that he has another railroad at his home in England.
I got my MRR yesterday, read the article, very good, seems he's been assembly buildings while living in hotels for years, He was quoted as saying , "If I paid someone else to do it, it wouldn't be the same" Kinda left me with the impression he did the work. Yes it is basically a highly detailed city scene with a HUGE hidden yard literally going down a hallway.
You guys would really be amazed at all of the stars that are model railroaders. Some keep it private while others are "out there with it" and belong to clubs. They're just as human as the rest of us, well, in most cases at least...
Tracklayer
Yah, just dont get too star struck when one is easing a extra out of your yard. Strip out the glitz and showboat stuff and they are people like everyone else.
Having said that, I have ran into a few and never fail to completely wipe the brain, stand star-struck and unable to introduce myself etc.
Ive wondered how a Star would buy train stuff. Going into a shop to get some track and paint. Getting mobbed on the way out? Or do they have a go-fer fetch it?
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Like someone else said, they are just as human as the rest of us.This is quite true.
Guys, my other hobby is full scale aviation and model aviation.I belong to a national aviation organization, and have had the chance to meet some of these people, and for the most part, almost all of them are really down to earth people,and great folks to get to know and be around.
When I was about 12 years old, I was at a model airplane meet near Chicago.Broke my airplane, and a guy by the name of Paul Harvey helped me repair it.Met a guy a few years ago at an airshow and got to talk to him at length, and he had several of us almost rolling on the ground laughing with hysteria due to his great sense of humor.His name was Jim Lovell.
It's not what you do for a living, it's something you are passionate about and enjoy sharing it with others,regardless of what walk of life you come from.I can understand Rod Stewart's statement about doing it himself, otherwise it's just not the same.I feel exactly the same way.I'm sure if he's like the rest of us, he(Rod Stewart) just enjoys the times you can set down, unwind, and work on his model railroad stuff, and have some time to yourself and do something you love to do.
TheK4Kid
If you did, you'd be like me, and have TWO hobbies you can't afford now - musical instruments and trains !!
BTW I've been trying to remember where it was, but I thought I saw something on hobby shops a while back on TV (I bet it was when Train World was featured in "The Sopranos") and the hobby shop guy they interviewed talked about how many celebrities liked trains. He said something like "Rod Stewart was in here about a year ago and bought a bunch of the big G scale trains. Rod said 'my hands are too clumsy for the little trains'."
So...either he got good really fast, or had someone build the layout for him??
wjstix wrote: trainboyH16-44 wrote:Makes me wonder whether I should have gotten a guitar instead of a pair of Athearn SD40-2s when I was still in the single digits...If you did, you'd be like me, and have TWO hobbies you can't afford now - musical instruments and trains !! BTW I've been trying to remember where it was, but I thought I saw something on hobby shops a while back on TV (I bet it was when Train World was featured in "The Sopranos") and the hobby shop guy they interviewed talked about how many celebrities liked trains. He said something like "Rod Stewart was in here about a year ago and bought a bunch of the big G scale trains. Rod said 'my hands are too clumsy for the little trains'." So...either he got good really fast, or had someone build the layout for him??
Or, perhaps, he has a sense of humor! (humour, in his case)
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
Hi vail and southwest
Yes he does have another Railway that one is in the UK that one is the LMS whats on the layout I do not know.
regards John
Folks,
I was floored by the amount of detail and craftsmenship that Rod has pulled off. I admit that I too first thought,he had someone build it for him. Well Mr Steward...should you read this post, I was trully wrong.
Outstanding work,all of it!!!!
Must have takin years and ungodly amounts of money for this masterpiece. Sure would like to see it in person.
Patrick
Beaufort,SC
Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
Excellent! I bet Rod reads all the posts
were not worthy
I think we are in good company
I've just got my copy, not read the article yet but the pics are stunning.
Rod Stewart - legend of Railroading and music!
I recieved the issue today and was floored by the amount of information in the article. I enjoyed the disappearing watch story the best.
There has to be a second article when the Scenery phase is finished in the future. Im curious to see how Rod takes the scenery work. Would it be built on a Hotel table and dropped into place?
That Gulfstream is the key to it all. I cannot imagine having to fly Commercial on the schedules presented in the article.
He got started in HO, or the present layout in 1993, I'm not sure which came first, but as far as the layout itself, he had 2 guys from his local hobby shop convert the wiring from DC to DCC and had some help with the L-girder supports and with the track plan, but all the buildings and detail work are of his own hands, really magnificent, he truely is an artist in more than 1 way.
Vail and Southwestern RR wrote:Or, perhaps, he has a sense of humor!
I would say he does! Has anyone noticed the Grimm Reaper standing atop the market in the second picture?
i think its great that he actually did it and didnt pull the i have a billion dollars and will pay someone to build it. could you imagine packing up all that stuff from hotel room to hotel room. wonder if he's on stage thinking about his next move on the project and how soon can he get back to it?
if i recall there are quite a few actors and such that are model rail roaders
It's not about the money, the article makes it clear that it was a enjoyable pursuit of the hobby for Rod. It is written he takes the mornings to go all out on the hobby and the rest of day with the family. Then it's the Gulfstream to his Job.
When I fired up the FSX Game and ran the Lear 45, you were out of Chicago and into St Louis within the hour and perhaps to Dallas by the third hour. Makes me wonder if a Private Gulfstream has the same "Freedom" as a ... Cessna 172 or a Warrior Archer above 20,000 feet in what I consider to be "Center" airspace over the USA. Does Rod's plane must follow instructions as provided to airliners and other craft? (Not including approach, departure etc)
It is nice that some very fortunate people can share the hobby, I mean; that layout is slightly bigger than my home and would require it's own building with full utilities.
Makes me very content with my small space.
The one thing I particularly enjoyed from the pictures was the apparent adaptation of the Walthers REA Buildings into what appears to be a Market similar to what I have been to in the Produce business. I could be wrong.
Did anyone notice the slight problems in the overall shot of the stations, downtown etc in the background? It was almost like you needed a humongus 100 gigapixel camera to take it all in without running out of field view and focus.