Celebrity Model Railroaders

[BIG BEAR]

    Hi all,
   TM Books & Videos has DVD's  "Celebrity Train Layouts"   Frank Sinatra,
Tom Snyder, & Mandy Patinkin. I also really like their Christmas Train DVD's,
& The Great Train Story, about the new layout at Chicago Museum of Science & Industry.

          Enjoy,
                  Barry

[Terry Toenges]

Neil Young is another.

[Woody Elmore]

Neil Young was a partner in one of the resurrections of the Lionel Company. I don't think he is still involved.

He has an autistic son and claimed that working on a train layout had helped his son.

[BIG BEAR]

      Michael Gross did several commercials for "Operation Lifesaver",
a childrens awareness program for safety around trains & tracks. in one he stated his Father & Grandfather and he himself,while in college, worked for a railroad.

  www.oli.org

   Enjoy,
        Barry

[Jim Banner]

Gary Coleman also comes to mind.

But how many of these celebrities are model train collectors as opposed to model railroad builders?

[pdlethbridge]

If I'm not mistaken, Ned Jarrett, the auto racer, has a beautiful layout that was photographed and written about in MR.

[nscaler711]

What about Mr. Roger's "layout" (ya know Mr. Roger's Neighborhood)
He had a G-scale trolley runnin all the time.

[brad]

Former race car driver and race commentator Sam Posey has a beautiful steam era layout. I have an MRCfrom the 80's with Gary Coleman on the cover, he worked at Caboose Hobbies part time.

brad

[dave2-8-0]

Add Sally Jessie Raphyal(sp?) to the list...she's into z scale..

Dave

[wade]

Gary Coleman... You can't mention Johny Cash or Niel Young enough....but then there was Jerry Garcia - Yeeee Haaaa !!!!! Drive'n that train.....   

[RAM]

Richard  Nixon the thirty-seventh President of the United States.  He may have never been a model railroader, but he was a rail fan. 

[Great Western]

The late Hughie Green, who if I remember correctly, was Canadian by birth had a noted model railroad which I think was OO scale.

He was noted for a programme called "Opportunity Knocks" in the UK - a form of talent show.

[r.cprmier]

Richard  Nixon the thirty-seventh President of the United States.  He may have never been a model railroader, but he was a rail fan.

Richard Nixon's father was a motorman; I forget where, but he did operate trolleys (streetcars) in California somewhere; so an early influence was probably what contributed to Nixon's love of trains.

Rich

[Bodie Bailey]

Nixon Trolleys in Whittier Ca, it's where he grew up. My home town.

Bodie Bailey

[oldline1]

Rod Stewart is an HO modeler and collector.

Bob Keshan (sp?) alias Captain Kangaroo was a modeler or railfan.

Spencer Christian is a railfan and I believe a modeler and narrated/hosted a series of train videos.

Roger