Railway Modelling is COOL Now Even ROD STEWART is Doing It!

[@turokforever007]

Rod has been into it for about 30 years, I remember when he was building a layout, putting each sleeper down one at a time.

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

His layout is fantastic

[@williamsquires3070]

His layout was also featured in Model Railroader magazine (I don’t remember what issue, but he’s making a new one that’s featured in the Dec. 2024 issue.)

[@gavinjohns7404]

Jools Holland is also a train modeller.

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@gavinjohns7404 and a very good one too

[@Paul-ey1ct]

Yea he's been doing it for a long long time .

[@adrianbaron4994]

Rod is a veteran modeller and owns two enormous layouts, one based on UK practice and standards, and one ( set around a " Gotham City" urban backdrop ) US practice. He once said that getting his picture on the cover of Railway Modeller magazine was harder, and a greater honour, than any appearance in any music magazine.

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@adrianbaron4994 and those layouts are outstanding by any standards

[@CloneRanger-o2r]

@@lifestyleunleashed8046 I bet he could teach us a few things, how crazy is that?

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@CloneRanger-o2r I can't think of anything cooler

[@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956]

Congratulations, Sir Rod, with getting your layout through the Panama Canal and safely to it's new home in England. No small feat indeed. Looking forward to many new instalments in Model Railroader Magazine!

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

I concur

[@DaventryParkway]

I have just started modelling again after an enforced break of 36 years, while life got in the way! Thankfully now I have the three main elements in place to be able to build a layout, time, space and money. Its the most consuming and endless hobby and I agree very cool! Making models as a kid helps understand form, structure and perspective, its no surprise many kids who liked to build model railways went on to have successful careers. You learn a lot more than you do from a 2D screen.

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@DaventryParkway absolutely true

[@monsvillerailways5736]

Your're right in that you can get lost in the creative world of modelling and model railways. There is a huge stigma associated with, "playing with toy trains". For those of us who love the creative outlet however it is indeed a great hobby. Happy Trains and Happy Modelling. Mon

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@monsvillerailways5736 for me the scenery is the greatest reward on my layouts. Taking me to another place

[@paulpotter7188]

You don’t have to love trains to participate. Making trees mountains buildings and bridges. Also layout design(I spent 100 hours just designing on paper my seventh and latest layout). Model railroading is definitely about story telling. Also study of history. I’ve been in the hobby all my 70 years. Hope to keep doing it for another 70!

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

Absolutely right

[@shaunclass47]

Well side I completely agree with you. It’s great to hear someone as like minded as me for once. Not being called nurds and other words. Keep up with your layout

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@shaunclass47 many thanks

[@thedepot7416]

its a place to escape from the real world to another, only recently started again and my son enjoys it also with his scalextric

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@thedepot7416 absolutely

[@shauntaylor9251]

Jools Holland has a massive layout as well

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

Yes. It's very impressive

[@skoorbyrret4578]

Rod Stewart, Jools Holland, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Pete Waterman, Francis Rossi {Status Quo} to name a few ....Model Railways are "Rock 'n Roll" .

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@skoorbyrret4578 best thing is I like all their work

[@Petemonster62]

Has Bruce Springsteen ever shown his layout to anyone?

[@ronnoman61]

Hi, three generations of my family are huge Bruce Springsteen fans and I didn't know this. I have read several books about him and watched him on stage plenty of times and never ever heard any mention of it. Maybe he is a bit like me and keeps his model railway low key. I would love to see his model railway, knowing Bruce I bet he is obsessive about getting every detail correct.

[@Petemonster62]

@@ronnoman61 - Yes, the stigma is still there. I saw an interview with Neil Young, on You Tube, where the interviewer asked him about being a "Train Nerd". Frank Sinatra also kept his Lionel trains "low key". I don't know if big band leader/singer Vaughn Monroe was public about his HO modeling in the 1940s and 50s.

[@skoorbyrret4578]

@@ronnoman61 Well, TBH, I've never seen pics of Bruces layout {I've been a Bruce fan since about 1976 ...the BtR album?}.But ....if you Google "Bruce Springsteen Model Railway", there are numerous refernces to it. So yeah, I guess he's a "closet modeller",.....{just like me} ;-)

[@shaunbarclaysentinal70]

Great hobby model railways you get to meet some nice people to learn from others building some thing special to to injoy together 😮😊

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

Absolutely and you can learn so much

[@scotabot7826]

Sir Rod has been in the hobby for decades! A long, long time. I, could also care less about other peoples total ignorance about the hobby, as I create for my own pleasure!

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@scotabot7826 he has and a very skilled modeller at that. I understand where you are coming from but I am reaching out to try to engage people with the hobby

[@Petemonster62]

Don't forget Roger Daltrey of The Who!

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@Petemonster62 the list of railway enthusiasts is phenomenal

[@musoseven8218]

Rod S is from the generation that wanted to be engine drivers. Hes been a rly modeller for decades, so has Clapton and a myriad of other contemporary rock and pop stars. Therein lies the rub, theyre all of a certain age. I like your sentiment though and you speak truths and sense. I suspect that you're preaching to the choir though🤔 Demographically, in Great Britain, we may have reached the zenith of railway modelling. We are all getting older, less youngsters are signing up in adulthood (I had high hopes of the original Thomas The Tank Engine generation would join us enmasse, Ive not seen that yet)💜🤕

[@lifestyleunleashed8046]

@@musoseven8218 yes but didn't we drift away to come back later? I started with the Rev Awdry books before they were known as Thomas and Friends. Volunteered on the Talyllyn and came back to modelling in 50's

[@Petemonster62]

Has Eric Clapton ever shown his layout to anyone?

[@Phil-oj5nr]

It’s “Railway Modelling”