Rocker Rod Stewart 'outed' as a model RR fanatic
wcol_...@yahoo.com
(shortcut URL: http://tinyurl.com/yptrf8)
Has pic of his HO layout and Model Railroader cover featuring his
layout,
as well as his latest "model" - wife Penny Lancaster.
newyorkc...@bigfoot.com
in 1991, Rod came in to the store with his wife Rachel Hunter.
I was far more interested in her.
On Oct 25, 2:35 am, wcol_123...@yahoo.com wrote:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.ht...
David Bromage
saying he'd rather be on the cover of Railway Modeller (the British mag)
than Rolling Stone. I guess Model Railroader is equivalent.
Cheers
David
David Bromage
Cheers
David
Robert Wilson
Rob.
Steve Caple
> Brits may remember he's talked about his models on Parkinson.
Sounds pretty shaky to me.
--
Steve
Big Rich Soprano
group i belong to since it's on the cover of the magazine. I also saw
this somewhere else but i forgot where. I was more interested in the
bigger list of model railroaders! I remember seeing Neil Young on
Leno. Leno had a Lionel layout behind the poinsettias on the stage!
Way cool... All Neil Young wanted to talk about was the trains so he
had stage hands clear the plants to see them!..
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)
P. Roehling
Big Rich Soprano
group i belong to since it's on the cover of the magazine. I also saw
this somewhere else but i forgot where. I was more interested in the
bigger list of model railroaders! I remember seeing Neil Young on
Leno. Leno had a Lionel layout behind the poinsettias on the stage!
Way cool... All Neil Young wanted to talk about was the trains so he
had stage hands clear the plants to see them!..
Famous Model Railroaders:
Groucho Marx (actor, game show host)
Puckdropper
news:13iapgu...@corp.supernews.com:
Don't forget me, The Great Puckdropper. I'm not famous, but that's
because I keep a low profile. lol :-)
Puckdropper
--
Wise is the man who attempts to answer his question before asking it.
To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm
Dan Merkel
news:4725bd47$0$47127$892e...@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net...
You're just not famous...YET!
dlm
Dan Merkel
news:3ifai3l8o432t6nkv...@4ax.com...
Who was the famous general who was also a model railroader? Was it
MacArthur? Somewhere I vaguely remember reading that he either built a
layout or had a layout built while he was in Japan after the war. Maybe
that's how the entire brass locomotive market got started??!?
dlm
P. Roehling
"Puckdropper" <puckd...@yahoo.com> wrote
> Don't forget me, The Great Puckdropper.
So you're Bobby Orr's butter-fingered son?
The one he doesn't talk about?
Pete
M Roberts
news:RgpVi.17615$JD.1...@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
And don't forget Hermann Göring, rumoured to have constructed an extensive
Marklin layout.
Cheers, Martyn
P. Roehling
"M Roberts" <unk...@thisaddress.com> wrote
>> > Famous Model Railroaders:
(snip)
>> > Whoopi Goldberg (actor)
>> > Hermann Göring (head of German Luftwaffe)
>> > Merle Haggard (country singer)
(snip)
> And don't forget Hermann Göring, rumoured to have constructed an extensive
> Marklin layout.
Would that by any chance be the same Hermann Goring listed above, right
between Whoopi Goldberg and Merle Haggard?
Pete
M Roberts
news:13icdcg...@corp.supernews.com...
Aha, yes it would. Well done you passed the test.
/hangs head sheepishly and wanders off . . . .
Cheers, Martyn
Greg Procter
What about the father in that 1970s TV sitcom like the Munsters where he
used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
Puckdropper
@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net:
> "Puckdropper" <puckd...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:4725bd47$0$47127$892e...@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net...
>>
>> Don't forget me, The Great Puckdropper. I'm not famous, but that's
>> because I keep a low profile. lol :-)
>>
>> Puckdropper
>
>
> You're just not famous...YET!
>
> dlm
>
But I can post messages on USENET!!! I must be famous!
;-)
P. Roehling
"Greg Procter" <pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote
> What about the father in that 1970s TV sitcom like the Munsters where he
> used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
If so, the idea was stolen from the earlier "Addams Family" cartoons. See
page 11 of Addam's "Monster Rally", published in 1950. The cartoon in
question shows "Pugsley" -the son- releasing a wind-up-toy school bus in
front of a speeding Lionel (?) passenger train.
Ah, for the carefree days of childhood!
Pete
BDK
> M Roberts wrote:
> >
> > "Dan Merkel" <danm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> > news:RgpVi.17615$JD.1...@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
> > > "Big Rich Soprano" <BucSo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3ifai3l8o432t6nkv...@4ax.com...
> > > >
> > > > Famous Model Railroaders:
> > > >
> > > > Tim Allen (comedian)
> > > > Roseanne Barr (actor)
> > > > Tom Brokow (newscaster)
> > > > Johnny Cash (country music singer) Dead
> > > > Winston Churchill (former British Prime Minister) Way way dead!
> > > > Gary Coleman (actor "Diff'rent Strokes")
> > > > Phil Collins (rock singer)
> > > > Kevin Costner (actor)
> > > > Walter Cronkite (radio/TV personality)
> > > > Roger Daltry (lead singer of the Who/actor)
> > > > Walt Disney (producer) Long dead
> > > > James Doohan (actor "Star Trek") Dead
> > > > Donald Duck (in the cartoon short "Not To Scale" - fictional
> > > > character)
> > > > Erik Estrada ("CHiPs")
> > > > Harrison Ford ("Star Wars" "Indiana Jones")
> > > > Whoopi Goldberg (actor)
> > > > Hermann Göring (head of German Luftwaffe) He's dead too.
> > > > 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)
> > > > Christopher Lee (actor "Dracula")
> > > > Jay Leno (TV talk show host)
> > > > Reverend Lovejoy ("The Simpsons" - fictional character)
> > > > 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)
> > > > Rick Schroder (actor "Silver Spoons", "NYPD Blue")
> > > > 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)
> > > > Neil Young (singer, also a part-owner of Lionel)
> > >
>
Man, if you take the dead ones out, that list is pretty short..
> What about the father in that 1970s TV sitcom like the Munsters where he
> used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
>
That was Gomez Addams on the Addams Family, not the Munsters.
I wanted to do that wreck thing so bad..
BDK
P. Roehling
"M Roberts" <unk...@thisaddress.com> wrote
>> Would that by any chance be the same Hermann Goring listed above, right
>> between Whoopi Goldberg and Merle Haggard?
>
> Aha, yes it would. Well done you passed the test.
>
> /hangs head sheepishly and wanders off . . . .
Could be worse. My dad always claimed that if he hadn't made a mistake I
wouldn't be here.
Pete
Greg Procter
The "Addam's Family" was it! I never saw a cartoon version.
Greg.P.
Greg Procter
Gomez Addams! Obviously you wasted more of your youth in front of TV
than I did ;-)
Greg.P.
Rick Jones
>
> Famous Model Railroaders:
<snip>
There's quite a few there that I haven't seen on previous lists of
this sort that have been posted here in years past. Some of those I
wonder about - Whoopi Goldberg? Roseanne Barr? Sally Jesse Raphael? Jay
Leno (I know he's real big into collecting cars, the full size variety)?
And then there's some that were left out - Sam Posey (former race
car driver) and the actor who played Michael J. Fox's dad on the TV
series that launched Fox's career, and he's now the spokesperson for The
World's Greatest Hobby. Name slips my mind ATM.
--
Rick Jones
Remove the Extra Dot to e-mail me
The Lake Erie & Oregon Railroad
http://www.geocities.com/seventysixinchesoffun/
You know you're getting old when you no longer take naps from
noon to 6 PM.
P. Roehling
"Greg Procter" <pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote
> The "Addam's Family" was it! I never saw a cartoon version.
Charles Addams' cartoons ran for many years in New Yorker magazine. They
were the original non-animated kind of cartoon, although using the word
"kind" in combination with those particular cartoons may well be an
oxymoron.
Pete
Stevert
> And then there's some that were left out - Sam Posey (former race car
> driver) and the actor who played Michael J. Fox's dad on the TV series
> that launched Fox's career, and he's now the spokesperson for The
> World's Greatest Hobby. Name slips my mind ATM.
>
Michael Gross
Last few sentences in the 2nd paragraph of his bio:
<http://groups.msn.com/MichaelGrossFans/biography.msnw>
Stevert
P. Roehling
"BDK" <B...@magicsteel.com> wrote
> I wanted to do that wreck thing so bad..
Congratulations! With the advent of DCC, you *can*!
(Or, you could be the poor soul who was running both a train and a streetcar
at the same time on the same layout, and, in a moment of innattention,
tee-boned his own train at the crossing!)
Pete
Steve Caple
> The "Addam's Family" was it! I never saw a cartoon version.
Oh, poor lad, so much you missed in your childhood. Ever see Gahan
Wilson's cartoons? Or his spiritual successor, B. Kliban? google is your
friend.
--
Steve
P. Roehling
"Steve Caple" <steve...@commoncast.net> wrote
> Oh, poor lad, so much you missed in your childhood. Ever see Gahan
> Wilson's cartoons? Or his spiritual successor, B. Kliban? google is your
> friend.
Add Vaughn Bode.
P. Roehling
"Stevert" <cat...@ifyoucan.net> wrote
>> And then there's some that were left out - Sam Posey (former race car
>> driver) and the actor who played Michael J. Fox's dad on the TV series
>> that launched Fox's career, and he's now the spokesperson for The World's
>> Greatest Hobby. Name slips my mind ATM.
>
> Michael Gross
Bingo!
I think his railroad was best known for it's 144 car trains.
Greg Procter
You apparently overlook that you missed the equivalents of my childhood.
You see, culture (even cartoon culture) does not revolve around your
experiences - in fact, given your references it doesn't even have a
nodding aquaintance there.
;-)
Greg.P.
Jim Korman
wrote:
>BDK wrote:
>>
>> Man, if you take the dead ones out, that list is pretty short..
>>
>> > What about the father in that 1970s TV sitcom like the Munsters where he
>> > used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
>> >
>>
>> That was Gomez Addams on the Addams Family, not the Munsters.
>>
>> I wanted to do that wreck thing so bad..
>
>Gomez Addams! Obviously you wasted more of your youth in front of TV
>than I did ;-)
>
>Greg.P.
How dare you, What do you mean "wasted" :)
Jim
BDK
Well, I probably did, I loved that show.
It's on everyday on at least 2 channels now.
BDK
BDK
says...
Well, I have to admit that I bought some junk friction tired stuff and
some other junk locos, and when I realized they ran in opposite
directions....BLAM! I had about 40 cars behind each one, and they went
all over the place. Almost no damage, except to the loco's bad paint
jobs. Easily fixed with Penn Central black. Covered all the nicks up. I
used to go to the hobby store nearby and make offers on all the locos
that had defective paint jobs. They were sort of common, and rather than
have them sit and rot in the case, they sold them to me for cost. My dad
sold toys and had the wholesale prices on all that stuff. My little
Badger airbrush made me a lot of PC locos out of those pitiful looking
B&O, NYC, etc ones.
We also used to recreate crossing accidents with my slot cars. I had one
of those HO track/slotcar crossovers, and would take junk slot cars (we
rewound the armatures and drag raced them at 100 volts, so there were
always spare not so great anymore parts) and whacked them with trains.
One of the good slot cars, running at near full voltage (We used a
friend's father's 0-100V DC Laboratory PS for power) on a glue covered
track (traction was severly limited, even at 12 or 20 volts) was scary
fast, and hurt like hell if you got hit by one. To stop, we cut the
power to the last few feet of track and put a 12V car brake light in
series across the dead track power rails. It helped slow the cars down
by loading the motors as generators, and settled all "Who won?"
questions as the lights would light up very brightly for a half second
or so. At the very end was a pillow. The cars would bounce several feet
off of it sometimes. If you got hit by one at full speed, it left a
nasty looking bruise. One of my friends got it right between the legs
when he was lying on the floor watching the cars go across the finish
line close up. We had made "dragsters" out of brass tubing and AFX
chassis, and mine came apart and went off the track and nailed him. He
was laughing, even though it hurt really bad. My other friend and I were
on the floor.
Those cars were a lot of fun, and the betting we did made it very
addictive.
BDK
BDK
r.t....@extra.sbcglobal.net says...
> Big Rich Soprano wrote:
> >
> > Famous Model Railroaders:
> <snip>
>
> There's quite a few there that I haven't seen on previous lists of
> this sort that have been posted here in years past. Some of those I
> wonder about - Whoopi Goldberg? Roseanne Barr? Sally Jesse Raphael? Jay
> Leno (I know he's real big into collecting cars, the full size variety)?
> And then there's some that were left out - Sam Posey (former race
> car driver) and the actor who played Michael J. Fox's dad on the TV
> series that launched Fox's career, and he's now the spokesperson for The
> World's Greatest Hobby. Name slips my mind ATM.
>
>
Michael Gross?
BDK
Greg Procter
You watched more of Gomaz Addams!
Greg.P.
Greg Procter
I have an excellent memory for whatchmacallits!
Greg Procter
er, I think it was on once a week around 1977 - b/w at that!
Greg Procter
>
> Big Rich Soprano wrote:
> >
> > Famous Model Railroaders:
> <snip>
>
> There's quite a few there that I haven't seen on previous lists of
> this sort that have been posted here in years past. Some of those I
> wonder about - Whoopi Goldberg? Roseanne Barr? Sally Jesse Raphael? Jay
> Leno (I know he's real big into collecting cars, the full size variety)?
> And then there's some that were left out - Sam Posey (former race
> car driver) and the actor who played Michael J. Fox's dad on the TV
> series that launched Fox's career, and he's now the spokesperson for The
> World's Greatest Hobby. Name slips my mind ATM.
Sex?
P. Roehling
"Greg Procter" <pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote
> Rick Jones wrote:
>> And then there's some that were left out - Sam Posey (former race
>> car driver) and the actor who played Michael J. Fox's dad on the TV
>> series that launched Fox's career, and he's now the spokesperson for The
>> World's Greatest Hobby. Name slips my mind ATM.
>
> Sex?
I doubt it. *I've* never once forgotton sex since I hit puberty about 50
years ago, and I'm a pretty typical male.
I'm hoping to stretch my unbroken string for another 20.
Pete
BDK
That was almost 12 years after they stopped making new ones.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057729/
It's on at least 2 cable stations I can watch every weekday.
Since it was filmed, it will eventually be out in HD.
BDK
David Bromage
> And don't forget Hermann Göring, rumoured to have constructed an extensive
> Marklin layout.
Not rumoured, he actually did and pictures exist.
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=10402
Cheers
David
David Bromage
> Rick Jones wrote:
>> And then there's some that were left out - Sam Posey (former race
>> car driver) and the actor who played Michael J. Fox's dad on the TV
>> series that launched Fox's career, and he's now the spokesperson for
>> The World's Greatest Hobby. Name slips my mind ATM.
>>
>
> Michael Gross
His N scale layout has been featured in MR.
Cheers
David
Greg Procter
The US is a foreign country - such programmes are used as mid-afternoon
through pre-evening news fillers. That timeslot is always filled with
the cheapest junk out TV stations can find. (well, MASH was in the
5:30-6pm slot for ... years :-)
David Bromage
"From Standard gauge on the silent screen to S gauge in his backyard,
electric trains fascinated movie comedian Buster Keaton."
- Classic Toy Trains, May 2003.
Cheers
David
BDK
Mash is still run here locally, in the early morning. It's on a couple
of cable channels too every day. The pre and after news is filled with
reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, etc. Seinfeld is on at 11Pm
to keep the religious whackos from sending in letters everytime "The
Contest" is on. I know one of the letter writers, and he still talks
about it all these years after it was originally aired. Good thing he
doesn't have cable, a couple of episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" would
have his panties all bunched up.
BDK
Greg Procter
I don't personally get cable or it's local equivalent, satelite TV. I'm
intending to go satelite shortly and the difference in cost between 4
channel "free to air" and a years sub with free dish for umpteen rubbish
channels plus the four is such that I'll take the rubbish for a year.
I'll let you know, if I bother to watch anything.
Greg.P.
BDK
Anyone that says there isn't good stuff on TV isn't looking for it.
BDK
Jack
snip
>
> What about the father in that 1970s TV sitcom like the Munsters where he
> used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
Munsters, who were the later of the 2 series.
--
Jack N2MPU
Proud NRA Life Member
Frank A. Rosenbaum
> I know one of the letter writers, and he still talks
>about it all these years after it was originally aired. Good thing he
>doesn't have cable, a couple of episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" would
>have his panties all bunched up.
You mean his panties aren't always bunched up?
Maybe you should introduce him to Model Railroading.
--
Frank Rosenbaum
Please support the following train meets if you can
Gratiot Valley ( www.gvrr.org ) in Macomb Michigan in March and November
and the Kalamazoo Model Railroad Historical Society ( www.kmrhs.org ) at the
Kalamazoo Fairgrounds in Kalamazoo MI in October.
Also check out the Westchester Model Railroad Club's train meet in Greenwich
CT in November and March.
Visit this web site to see my bridge and the KMRHS http://tinyurl.com/7uqdr
BDK
says...
> Greg Procter wrote:
> snip
> >
> > What about the father in that 1970s TV sitcom like the Munsters where he
> > used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
> You mean the Addams Family, right? How dare you compare them to the
> Munsters, who were the later of the 2 series.
>
>
You really consider a week to be later?
Addams Family: 18 September 1964
Munsters: 24 September 1964
BDK
BDK
faros...@comcast.net says...
>
> > I know one of the letter writers, and he still talks
> >about it all these years after it was originally aired. Good thing he
> >doesn't have cable, a couple of episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" would
> >have his panties all bunched up.
>
>
> You mean his panties aren't always bunched up?
> Maybe you should introduce him to Model Railroading.
>
He bakes bread, and lots of it. He hands it out all over the place, to
everyone he knows.
Just picture a big 70 something year old, Lebanese Mr. Rogers, complete
with sweater, and you have him. Oh, he's got a really high voice too.
There were six brothers and sisters in that family, and only one of them
has a "normal" voice. The rest all have weird voices, ranging from a
deep voiced sister that sounds like a male radio announcer, to a brother
who sounded like a billy goat crossed with a human. Bread man sounds
like a woman, another brother sounds like a pro wrestler with the always
hoarse voice, and another sister sounds like her voice is played through
a synthesizer, it's gotten more normal as she's gotten older. The oldest
sister is the only one with a normal voice.
The billy goat guy was hilarious when he was upset, and he was upset all
the time. The fights he had with one of his brother in laws are
legendary. The in law would do something like smoke in billy goat's
house, and when he went off on it, the in law would just look at him in
disgust, and say something like, "Why don't you grow a set of balls?",
and billy goat would explode.
He died about 10 years ago, after turning down a heart transplant,
twice. He just refused to do it. Weird..He was 59, and had nothing wrong
with him except his heart problems, and the doctors said he had an
excellent chance of living 10 or more years..
BDK
P. Roehling
"BDK" <B...@magicsteel.com> wrote
> You really consider a week to be later?
He's only got three choices: it can be earlier, simultaneously, or later. So
yes; a week later *is* later.
It just isn't *much* later.
Pete
Greg Procter
I'm not looking to be entertained - that's why I'm sitting at my
computer rather than in front of my TV.
Greg Procter
>
> Greg Procter wrote:
> snip
> >
> > What about the father in that 1970s TV sitcom like the Munsters where he
> > used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
> You mean the Addams Family, right? How dare you compare them to the
> Munsters, who were the later of the 2 series.
I did say "like the Munsters"!
That was later?
Here in NZ the Munsters was screened first.
Greg.P.
marknewton
> Seinfeld is on at 11Pm to keep the religious whackos from sending in
> letters everytime "The Contest" is on. I know one of the letter
> writers, and he still talks about it all these years after it was
> originally aired.
Our religious wankers are much better organised than yours - they record
TV shows that on late at night, so they can be offended and outraged the
next morning, in comfort.
Cheers,
Mark.
marknewton
> Seinfeld is on at 11Pm to keep the religious whackos from sending in
> letters everytime "The Contest" is on. I know one of the letter
> writers, and he still talks about it all these years after it was
> originally aired.
Our religious wankers are much better organised than yours - they record
Big Rich Soprano
>between Whoopi Goldberg and Merle Haggard?
Mmmm it might rabbit - it might...
Big Rich Soprano
>used to run Lionel trains and blow up the bridges etc.
It is on the list but fictional so i deleted it but Gomez Adams (John
Aston) was there. I didn't Lovejoy there or i would have deleted that
as well...
Big Rich Soprano
Be glad - it wasn't as good...
Big Rich Soprano
Funny that you should mention him - this list came from a site about
him... http://members.aol.com/shadoemagic/mgross/mgtrains.htm
Big Rich Soprano
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."
Big Rich Soprano
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)
BDK
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield
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
Big Rich Soprano
>Maybe you should introduce him to Model Railroading.
Ba-Dum-Bum...
marknewton
> 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.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield
>
> 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
I reckon! Someone should tell them television is only make-believe...
Mark Mathu
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> He is quoted as saying he'd rather be on the cover of Railway Modeller
> (the British mag) than Rolling Stone.
Where was he quoted saying that?
Rick Jones
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."
--
Rick Jones
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Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't
zigzag?
Mark Mathu
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"I wish I was on the cover of Lionel Trains magazine."
- Neil Young, to a Rolling Stone magazine photographer
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/neilyoung/articles/story/6478104/neil_young
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When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying
a cross.
Sinclair Lewis
Mark Mathu
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> Add Groucho Marx.
"I would belong to no [model train] club that would have me as a member."
- Groucho Marx