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Its time to OUT celeberity railfans!

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Posted by mloik on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 7:13 PM
Dan Rather often talks about railroad lore during his visits to David Letterman, etc.
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 7:07 PM
Jhonny Cash was a railfan.Yul Brenner was a model railroader.
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 7:03 PM
I don't know about railfan, but Rod Stewart is an avid model railroader. I even loaded a Walthers box for him into a UPS trailer bound for California (This would be about 7½ years ago...) .

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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 6:29 PM
Clearly in this 'category' -- Jennifer Garner, in People Magazine:

"I just cannot avoid a train."
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Its time to OUT celeberity railfans!
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 5:26 PM
Paul Harvey-Quoted news that the "Corn Shipments are going to utilse every grain car out there.
Tom Snyder-Loved to tell listener that Supertrain was a bad TV Show!
Neil Young-Traitor who helped moved Lionel Production to China even though he wrote songs critising the USA
John Kerry-uses rail trails in home of Boston.
anybody else out there???

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