Be glad - it wasn't as good...
Rocker Rod Stewart 'outed' as a model RR fanatic
Oct 25, 2007
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Funny that you should mention him - this list came from a site about him...
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Yes:
"Michael is part owner in the Santa Fe Southern Railroad, the
120-year-old spur from Santa Fe to Lamy (named for a Catholic bishop who once lived there) through the scenic New Mexico countryside. It's the last eighteen miles in the short line leading into New Mexico on the Acheson, Topeka & Santa Fe line, which it was once a part of. It was going to be abandoned because of a lack of freight passengers. "So a group of us decided to save the thing and run it, too," he said. "It's fun, but a lot of work." Though he's not an active part of the day-to-day running of the railroad, he shows up occasionally to work on the line, between acting jobs.Since 1992, SFSR operates year round on the 18-mile route through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a piece of living history - still carrying passengers through the high-desert route, and still carrying freight to serve the community. The SFSR only has two locomotives, one (#93, an ex-SAL GP7) for pulling Santa Fe Southern's trains and the other (#92, an ex-ATSF GP7) for switching the small yard in Santa Fe. Coaches on the Santa Fe Southern Railway are charming vintage cars which have been authentically restored or renovated with a southwestern look. Santa Fe Southern Railway's Silver Class cars are vintage ATSF Super Chief cars which afford riders a cozier, more intimate experience."
Famous Model Railroaders:
Tim Allen (comedian) Gene Autry ("The Singing Cowboy") Roseanne Barr (actor) Tom Brokow (newscaster) Yul Brynner (actor "The King and I") Johnny Cash (country music singer) Winston Churchill (former British Prime Minister) Gary Coleman (actor "Diff'rent Strokes") Phil Collins (rock singer) Kevin Costner (actor) Richard Crenna (actor) Walter Cronkite (radio/TV personality) Roger Daltry (lead singer of the Who/actor) Joe DiMaggio (baseball player) Walt Disney (producer) James Doohan (actor "Star Trek") Donald Duck (in the cartoon short "Not To Scale" - fictional character) Erik Estrada ("CHiPs") Harrison Ford ("Star Wars" "Indiana Jones") Arthur Godfrey (radio/TV personality) Whoopi Goldberg (actor) Hermann Göring (head of German Luftwaffe) Merle Haggard (country singer) Tom Hanks (actor) - Appeared on "Family Ties" episodes David Hasselhoff (actor "Baywatch") - Starred with MG in Avalanche Elton John (rock singer) Michael Jordan (basketball player) Captain Kangaroo (kids' show host) Christopher Lee (actor "Dracula") Jay Leno (TV talk show host) Jack Lord (actor "Hawaii Five-O") Reverend Lovejoy ("The Simpsons" - fictional character) Roger Miller (country singer) Mandy Patinkin (actor "Chicago Hope", "The Princess Bride") John Patterson "Dad" ("For Better Or For Worse" - fictional character) John Pertwee (actor "Doctor Who") Sally Jesse Raphael (TV talk show host) Lionel Ritchie (singer) Roy Rogers Rick Schroder (actor "Silver Spoons", "NYPD Blue") Frank Sinatra (singer) Bruce Springsteen (rock singer) Jill St. John (actor "Diamonds Are Forever") Sylvester Stallone (actor "Rocky" "Rambo") Patrick Stewart (actor "Star Trek: The Next Generation") Rod Stewart (rock singer) Donald Sutherland (actor) Mel Torme (singer) Neil Young (singer, also a part-owner of Lionel) Groucho Marx (actor, game show host) Buster Keaton (comedian)
Bread man hasn't figured out how to set his clock on his VCR, and 11PM is way too late for most of his crowd, so it passes..
The latest show they have been crying about is "The Shield". Pretty radical show, even for cable. It's one of my favorite shows. You never know what's going to happen on it.
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They seem to be mostly upset that Michael Chiklis, who starred years ago as that nice "Commish", is now a thuggish, murdering cop on "The Shield".
They really need to get a life.
BDK
Ba-Dum-Bum...
I reckon! Someone should tell them television is only make-believe...
Where was he quoted saying that?
The article in MR. The specific quote, in a sidebar to the main article, says, "I'm proud to be a model railroader. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine."
"I wish I was on the cover of Lionel Trains magazine."
- Neil Young, to a Rolling Stone magazine photographer
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Gross won MR Model of the Month for a SF pass, station.
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis
"I would belong to no [model train] club that would have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx
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