Rod Stewart’s Epic Model Railroad

He’s one of rock’s biggest stars, but Sir Rod Stewart has finally revealed the fruits of his other great passion — model railroads. In between making music and playing live, Sir Rod has been working on a massive, intricate model of a US city for the past 23 years.

He unveiled it as part of an interview with Railway Modeller magazine. He then phoned in to Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show to rebuff the host’s suggestion he had not built it himself. “I would say 90% of it I built myself,” he insisted. “The only thing I wasn’t very good at and still am not is the electricals, so I had someone else do that.” Read more >