Sir Rod Stewart's Little Rail Layout!

[Tom Geiger]

Thought you guys might like this one...   (Ken Hamilton, you are on notice!)   ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50403561

[Jantrix]

Wow. That is impressive. 

[ewetwo]

That is amazing! Who would have known?

[Dave Van]

Model Railroader magazine has done two large articles on Rod's layout.....it is fantastic! 

[Tom Geiger]

My favorite part of the article is that he'd get an extra hotel room when touring... and the hotel would pull out the bed as his model work room!  

[NYLIBUD]

Oh his layout has to be one of the best I’ve ever seen.I saw it in Model Railroader a few years back.I couldn’t believe how amazing it is.But if u got the $$,anything is possible.Thanks for the pics.

[Tom Geiger]

14 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:

But if u got the $$,anything is possible.

Sounds more like he's one of us, someone who hand built all the buildings and scenery with mad skills!   I'm sure we could talk hours on scratch building and weathering techniques.

It's smart to hire an electrician for safety's sake. A number of years ago there was a very nice diorama put out on it's own legs at NNL East.  It had tons of lights and was plugged into the wall.  I don't know why but I looked under it and was horrified.  All kinds of hanging wires, twisted together with no covering.  An accident waiting to happen.  I had the guy unplug it. And that (and one more incident)  are the reason the rules state "no electrical power" to dioramas today.

Edited November 15, 2019 by Tom Geiger

[NYLIBUD]

I can’t even imagine the wiring it must take to run that layout.Personally I think he’s got a couple of staff that run and maintain the layout.I wonder what the sq footage of that layout would be.Its just simply amazing.

[shoopdog]

On 11/14/2019 at 9:21 AM, ewetwo said:

That is amazing! Who would have known?

X2

[drag racer 15]

On 11/15/2019 at 1:06 PM, NYLIBUD said:

I can’t even imagine the wiring it must take to run that layout.Personally I think he’s got a couple of staff that run and maintain the layout.I wonder what the sq footage of that layout would be.Its just simply amazing.

1500 Square feet

[Bucky]

On 11/15/2019 at 1:06 PM, NYLIBUD said:

I can’t even imagine the wiring it must take to run that layout.Personally I think he’s got a couple of staff that run and maintain the layout.I wonder what the sq footage of that layout would be.Its just simply amazing.

I think I read that the layout is somewhere around 124 feet long! I'd like to see the room where it is displayed!

[Deuces]

Good for him!!!!.... ??

[NYLIBUD]

WOW,I always wanted to build a HO scale city..The layout just amazes me.

[peteski]

On 11/14/2019 at 6:39 PM, NYLIBUD said:

Oh his layout has to be one of the best I’ve ever seen.I saw it in Model Railroader a few years back.I couldn’t believe how amazing it is.But if u got the $$,anything is possible.Thanks for the pics.

Yes, I read that article too.  Yes, with enough money, anything is possible (and he also has few professionals helping him with layout construction).  But with the size of that layout, and amount of detail on it, it would be hard for a single person to accomplish all that.  However, Rod also happens to be a good modeler himself.

There are/were also other celebrity model railroaders.  Walt Disney for one, had his own garden railroad.

[espo]

7 hours ago, peteski said:

Yes, I read that article too.  Yes, with enough money, anything is possible (and he also has few professionals helping him with layout construction).  But with the size of that layout, and amount of detail on it, it would be hard for a single person to accomplish all that.  However, Rod also happens to be a good modeler himself.

There are/were also other celebrity model railroaders.  Walt Disney for one, had his own garden railroad.

I think that was called Disneyland. Went there when I was a youngster. 

[peteski]

12 hours ago, espo said:

I think that was called Disneyland. Went there when I was a youngster. 

I wonder if what you describe is  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Railroad  ?  That is a "real" narrow gauge railroad.

 

The one I'm talking about is a model railroad.  It was live steam, but the tracks are only less than a foot apart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolwood_Pacific_Railroad  

 

There is actually a model train layout depicting Walt's original backyard (model)  garden railroad.

 

Edited November 20, 2019 by peteski