List of rail transport modellers
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Notable within the model press[edit]
| Name | Scales modelled | Prototypes modelled | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Allen | H0 | freelanced Gorre & Daphetid Railroad | Died 6 January 1973 |
| John Armstrong | O | freelanced Canandaigua Southern Railroad | Died 28 July 2004 |
| Eric Bracher | HOn3, Sn3, On3 | Narrow gauge & shortline railroads | Magazine article writer & contributor, NMRA Master Model Railroader #23 (of 500+), founder of Rio Grande Models, Ltd. |
| Frank Ellison | O | freelanced Delta Lines | Died 30 September 1964 |
| Cyril Freezer | Mainly OO | Editor of Railway Modeller 1950-1980 and a prolific model railway author. Died 19 May 2009. | |
| Nobutaro Hara | 1 gauge and others | Worldwide | Part of his extensive private collection, including a 310 sq. metre 1-gauge layout, forms the Hara Model Railway Museum in Yokohama, Japan, died 5 July 2014[1] |
| Al Kalmbach | O | Freelanced Great Gulch, Yahoo Valley & Northern R.R. | First publisher of Model Railroader magazine, died 1981 |
| Jim Kelly | N | ||
| Tony Koester | H0 | Nickel Plate Road | Accomplished model railroad author for Kalmbach Publishing and former Editor of Railroad Model Craftsman. |
| Roy C Link | O14 and others | Founder and long time Editor of NG&IRM REVIEW and RCL Publications,[2] originator of the O14 standards, and a renowned kit designer, draughtsman, author and craftsman modeller. | |
| W. Allen McClelland | H0 | The Virginian and Ohio Railroad | |
| E. L. Moore | Mainly HO | Freelanced Elizabeth Valley Railroad and Eagleroost and Koontree Railroad | Prolific contributor of building construction articles to American model railroading magazines between 1955 and 1979. |
| George Sellios | H0 | freelanced Franklin and South Manchester Railroad | |
| Whit Towers | HO scale | freelanced Alturas and Lone Pine | editor of NMRA Bulletin for many years, died 12 June 1999 |
| Wayne Wesolowski | |||
| Linn H. Westcott | Editor of Model Railroader for 16 years from the February 1961 issue to the August 1977 issue. Died 8 September 1980. |
Celebrity modellers[edit]
| Name | Occupation | Scales modelled | Prototypes modelled | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Alexander[3] | Austrian singer and actor | |||
| The Rev. W. Awdry | British clergyman and author of The Railway Series. Creator of Thomas the Tank Engine. |
00 009 | Models are preserved at the museum at Tywyn Died 21 March 1997 | |
| Jimmy Barnes | Scottish-Australian singer | |||
| Tim Berners-Lee[4] | British scientist and World Wide Web pioneer. | |||
| Kurt Biedenkopf[3] | German politician | |||
| Claude Bolling | French jazz pianist | |||
| Tom Brokaw[5] | American television journalist | |||
| Warren Buffett | Investor | [6] | ||
| Johnny Cash | American singer and songwriter | Made TV commercials and endorsements for Lionel Trains in the 1970s.[7][8] | ||
| Winston Churchill[5] | British politician | |||
| Eric Clapton[9] | Musician | |||
| Gary Coleman | American actor | N | Employee of Caboose Hobbies in Denver, Colorado. Layout featured in the September 1990 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman.[10] Also made a railway-related adventure movie called On the Right Track.[11] | |
| Phil Collins[5][9][12] | British musician and singer | |||
| Manuel De Peppe | Italian actor singer arranger producer songwriter | O G | He collects Subway and Trolley Models | |
| Regis Cordic | American radio personality and actor | |||
| Bob Costas | American sports journalist | |||
| Alan Cox | Linux developer | N Z | Also runs his own model kit business | |
| Richard Crenna | American actor | |||
| Roger Daltrey | British musician | |||
| Anne Diamond[13] | British journalist | |||
| Joe DiMaggio[5] | American baseball player | |||
| Walt Disney[5] | American film producer, animator and entrepreneur. | 7-1/4" live steam | ||
| James Doohan | Canadian actor | |||
| Ed Dougherty | Professional golfer | O | Has a Lionel layout which was featured on an episode of "Tracks Ahead". | |
| John Entwistle | British musician | |||
| Leopold Gratz[3] | Austrian politician | |||
| Harper Goff | American artist, musician and actor | |||
| Hermann Göring[14] | German politician and military leader | |||
| Rick Green | Canadian comedian and writer | Member of a Model Railroad club in Toronto | ||
| Michael Gross | American actor | N | Model of the Month Award in the March 1992 issue of Model Railroader. | |
| Gene Hackman | American actor | |||
| Merle Haggard[5] | American singer and songwriter | |||
| Tom Hanks[5] | American actor | Reportedly working on a layout based on a Freelanced Southern Pacific Line | ||
| David Hasselhoff | American actor | Garden Railroad in G Scale | ||
| Jools Holland[15] | British musician | |||
| Josef Hesoun[3] | Austrian politician | G | ||
| Tommy Hunter | Canadian singer | |||
| Eddie Izzard | British comedian and actor | OO | ||
| Elton John[5] | British singer, composer and pianist | |||
| Ollie Johnston | American animator | 5" and full-size live steam | ||
| Michael Jordan[5] | American basketball player | N Scale | N Scale layout based on the Chicago and North Western | |
| Buster Keaton[16] | American actor and film director | S | ||
| Ward Kimball | American animator | full-size live steam, collector of model railroad equipment | ||
| Tom Marshall[17] | British photo colouriser and artist | OO | Layout based on Buggleskelly from the Will Hay film Oh, Mr. Porter! | |
| James May | British Television Presenter | |||
| Gil Mellé | American artist and musician | |||
| Vaughn Monroe | American singer and musician | |||
| Michael Palin[15] | British comedian | |||
| Mandy Patinkin | American actor | O - Lionel | Noted Lionel collector and operator, his home layout is modeled based on places from his childhood with locations named for family members.[18] | |
| Riccardo Patrese[5] | Italian Formula One driver | 0 H0 | collector Märklin 0 gauge | |
| Jim Pattison | Canadian entrepreneur | Purchased Frank Sinatra's Rancho Mirage, California Lionel collection in 1995.[19] | ||
| Sam Posey | American racecar driver and sports journalist | H0 | Colorado Midland Railway | Author of Playing with Trains (ISBN 0812971264 Search this book on  .) where he describes his involvement in the hobby
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| Sally Jessy Raphael | American television host | Z | Owns Marklin Z scale trains which operate on a layout housed in a briefcase[20] | |
| Joe Regalbuto | American actor | G | Layout featured in the March 1993 issue of Model Railroader.[21] | |
| Fred Rogers | American television host | |||
| John Socha |
Software engineer Norton Commander |
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| Jim Scancarelli | American cartoonist | |||
| Gerhard Schröder[12] | German politician | |||
| Horst Seehofer[22] | German politician | HO | ||
| Frank Sinatra[5] | American singer | Lionel and tinplate models | Maintained in Sinatra's train cottage at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. Transferred to Jim Pattison when the cottage and house was sold in 1995.[19] | |
| Merv Smith | New Zealand radio presenter | HOn30 | Co-wrote the book Little Trains of Thought (Whitcoulls, Christchurch, 1974) about his hobby. After retiring from radio he opened a model shop. | |
| Peter Snow[9][23] | British television presenter | |||
| Tom Snyder | American television personality | |||
| Bruce Springsteen[5] | American singer | |||
| Ringo Starr | Beatles drummer | |||
| Rod Stewart[5][9] | British singer | 00, H0 | Grand Central Terminal, New York City | Layout featured in the December 2007, December 2010 and February 2014 issues of Model Railroader. In May 2019 Stewart donated £10,000 to the Market Deeping Model Railway Club after their exhibition was vandalised.[24] |
| Donald Sutherland[5] | Canadian actor | |||
| Bob Symes | British television presenter and producer | |||
| Mel Tormé[5] | American singer | |||
| Gerhard Tötschinger[3] | Austrian actor, director and writer | |||
| Pete Waterman[9] | British songwriter and record producer | O Gauge, OO gauge | Also owns full sized locomotives and the model company 'Just Like The Real Thing'. Involved in the building of an O Gauge layout Leamington Spa as featured in the Railway Modeller, December 2008. Also involved in the building of Making Tracks: a OO gauge model based on the West Coast Main Line in the present era, and exhibited in Chester Cathedral over the Summer of 2021. | |
| Daniël Wayenberg | Dutch pianist and composer | |||
| Anders Wejryd | Archbishop of Church of Sweden | |||
| Neil Young | Canadian singer and songwriter | Part owner of Lionel Trains. | ||
| Frank P. Zeidler | American politician | Foundation member of the National Model Railroad Association. |
Fictional modellers[edit]
- Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) had a Lionel layout. He was noted for setting trains on a collision course, then blowing them up with explosives.
- Bobby Baccalieri (The Sopranos) has a layout in his garage. He is killed in a model-hobby shop.
- Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys)
- Richard Channing (Falcon Crest) had a model railroad in his office.
- Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) begins model railroading in a prominent subplot of "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation".[25]
- Roy Cropper on Coronation Street is an avid model train collector and railroad history buff.
- Donald Duck in the Disney cartoon short "Out of Scale".[26]
- Goofy is shown owning train sets in comic book stories, especially in some ones related to Christmas.
- Ronald "Strike" Dunham (Clockers) has Lionel model trains in his apartment.
- Red Forman (That '70s Show) fights with his brother over their old train set after their mother dies, ultimately ending up with them.
- Joel Goodson (played in Risky Business by Tom Cruise) retreats to his basement during a hectic time in the movie to run a nice postwar, tinplate train layout.
- Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Chicago Hope), played by real life model railroader Mandy Patinkin.
- Joe Heffernan, Doug's Father on The King of Queens, entered a competition in one episode.
- Steven Keaton (Family Ties), played by real life model railroader Michael Gross.
- Reverend Timothy Lovejoy (The Simpsons) has been portrayed in several episodes running model trains in his basement.
- Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) has a multi-gauge layout in Superman Returns.[27]
- Arthur Mitchell (played by John Lithgow in season 4 of Dexter had O scale model trains.
- Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an HO Scale layout under construction in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.[28]
- John Patterson (For Better or For Worse) has a garden railroad.
- Eric Peterson (The Big Bang Theory) Season 7 ep 16, Valentines Episode - befriends Sheldon as fellow train enthusiast.
- Mary Ellen Rogers (Leave It to Beaver), (Wally's Girlfriend)'s father has an American Flyer layout in his basement in one episode.
- Train engineer Tom Stark (Kevin Bacon, in Rails & Ties) has a model railway at home.
- Allan Steiger (Neighbours).[29]
- Wallace and Gromit have a model railway which is central to the plot of The Wrong Trousers.
- Gus Witherspoon (Our House) has a layout in his shed. The last episode Season 2, episode 22 "Artful Dodging" has Mr Kaplan damaging one of Gus' trains.[30]
- Mr X & his archenemy Glowface (The X's) are model train fanatics.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Konagai, Maaya (22 June 2012). "Model train buff brings out his toys for everyone". The Japan Times. Japan: The Japan Times Ltd. p. 14. ISSN 0289-1956.
- ↑ "Narrow Gauge and Industrial About Us". Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eisenbahnfreund
- ↑ "Answers for young people - Tim Berners-Lee". World Wide Web Consortium. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 NMRA - Why Build a Model Railroad?
- ↑ "Profile of Warren Buffett". The New York Times. April 28, 2011. Retrieved April 30, 2011.
- ↑ "Johnny Cash - Other works". IMDB. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ↑ Vincent, Alice (2 July 2013). "Rod Stewart and other famous model train fans". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Reynolds, Nigel (24 October 2007). "Rod Stewart is a model railway enthusiast". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- ↑ "Table of contents: RMC 9 1990". The Model Train Magazine Index. Kalmbach Publishing/Trains.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved 2008-06-27. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Boyes, Roger (2007-02-08). "Sex and violence as life with model trains goes off the rails". The Times. Retrieved 2007-03-28.
- ↑ "Here goes - the Diamond Railroad!".
- ↑ Hermann Göring's Model Railroad
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 009.cd2.com
- ↑ Carp, Roger (May 2003). "Buster Keaton's Trains". Classic Toy Trains.
- ↑ "Tom Marshall's Model Dioramas". facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
- ↑ Simon, Bob. "Mandy Patinkin". cbsnews.com/. 60 Minutes. Retrieved 17 November 2014.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Celebrity Train Layouts, Part 1 – Frank Sinatra, DVD, TM Books & Video, 2003, 40 minutes. ASIN B0000E3J8F
- ↑ "Say, is that the Glacier Express".
- ↑ "Model Railroader - March 1993 Contents". Kalmbach Publishing. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ↑ "Seehofer will sein Leben als Modelleisenbahn bauen" (in Deutsch). Die Welt. 2021-11-05.
- ↑ "Peter Snow shows John Humphrys his model railway". BBC. 2010-12-03.
- ↑ FitzPatrick, Laura (2019-05-20). "Sir Rod Stewart donates £10,000 to vandalised model railway club". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
- ↑ "Big Bang Theory, Model Trains and Aspergers and Autism", CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Subdivision, Sept, 30, 2011
- ↑ disneyshorts.org Archived January 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ imdb.com
- ↑ filmsite.org
- ↑ "Allan Steiger". Neighbours: The Perfect Blend. Grundy Television Pty. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ↑ youtube.com
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