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The current thread about Frank Sinatra's love of O Gauge trains gave me the idea to start this topic.

Famous, highly successful people who have celebrity status and also love model railroading and/or train collecting can be shared here, and doing so can help promote the Greatest Hobby in the World.

So, what famous person do you know who partakes of our pastime. You can also share any and all specifics about the celebrity's passion for trains and how you found out about it.

I know a few such people and will start us off with a widely known train loving celebrity: Neil Young.

I first found out about Neil's love for trains in a train magazine article about Neil and his son, which was the most moving model train magazine article that I ever read. I know many of you folks have met Neil in person, which never did, but IMO, the way Neil does our hobby with his son is the highest and best use of our beloved trains.

I believe Neil is a brilliant, highly creative and otherwise great man.

Arnold

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Most everyone knows about Neil Young, but to stimulate more interest, I will now mention someone who now has her own TV show and has bought Lionel trains at a LHS shop (not far from where I live) in the past.

She also went to the law school I attended, Albany Law School, and was 1 year ahead of me there.

Who am I describing? None other than Jeanine Pirro.

I suspect her train related purchases were gifts for her son when he was a child.

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@Sean007 posted:

Singer Rod Stewart is known to travel during tours with an HO train layout that gets setup in his hotel room. Maybe a little unwinding between shows?

He actually has a 1500 sqft layout at home. Besides a little running in the hotel rooms ...  he works on structures, etc in the room. He claims he did everything, over 25 years, except the wiring. Enjoys super-detailing.

Pretty spectacular layout with heavy industry, port, cityscapes. Worth looking at on the internet.

Says he loves to have a few glasses of wine and run trains each evening. Add his wife, 30 his junior ... Rod is living the life.

Tom Snyders Layout and Train Collection are now housed at the NJ HiRailers Train club   When we dedicated it at our location his domestic partner Pam came with alot of news dignitaries including Spencer Christian, Frank Field and Kaity Tong   Was fun having the dinner with them and all the TV muckkity Mucks

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We also had a visit from Steven Spielberg and Tony Scott but they didnt photograph well



When Lionel first came out with Legacy I was complaining about problems with it on the forum  This guy NY kept answering me  I invited NY to come over to the club and to my surprise it was Neal Young

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Then we had this famous guy over a few times

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I produced my first railroad video back in 1978. It was entitled “Train to Everywhere” and was about the Chessie Steam Special. One of the first orders that I received for this video was from the late Merle Haggard. I don’t know if he was also into model trains, but he evidently had an interest in steam locos.

Here’s the video, from my YouTube channel.

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