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"HONGZ" stands for HO scale, N scale, G scale, and Z scale.
Post your non-O scale stuff here!
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Fantastic layout. Just shows what unlimited funds can do for a layout.
I have to say that money without talent will not build a layout like that. Nice Layout. 
Some guys have all the luck!
Awesome layout!
I think creative work in music and trains is a great combination. Joni Mitchell did it with music and fine art (painting). Rod Stewart obviously does it with music and model railroading, which can be thought of as a multi-faceted dynamic art project. Although not as famous as Rod, some of our Forum members also do creative work in music and trains.
Rod's layout looks amazing. He is probably sharing some of his enormous financial resources with numerous model train-related businesses, which I think is a good thing for many reasons.
Arnold
Rod's modeling activities have received a good amount of exposure/publicity in recent years, which is certainly a nice thing to see. He has a truly outstanding layout.
VistaDomeScott posted:Some guys have all the luck!
Awesome layout!
I got it.
Forest posted:I have to say that money without talent will not build a layout like that. Nice Layout.
With money you can buy the talent, you don't think he built that himself ?
Rock stars spend most of their time on other activities.
It looks like too much work for one person.
George
My son-in-law sent me the link for this, yesterday. The full article describes how Rod would rent a spare room when on the road, and he and a few of his pals worked on buildings and things. It said that hotel staff were particularly helpful in clearing out the beds and furniture, while providing extra stuff for better ventilation. This went on for over 20 years. If true, the young lad certainly had a lot to do with building a layout that took 26 years to complete. He also said that there was never a plan, he just winged it and kept adding to it. Too bad it's HO. My fingers hate tiny wires. Don't know how those guys do it.
Jerry
If I'm recalling the Model Railroading article correctly, Rod built most ( if not all ) of the large buildings on his layout. He had a two or three other people that assisted him on building the layout, as many folks do. Rod is color blind so sometimes scenery work was not a forte but he likes doing that aspect of modeling as well.
Sometimes when touring Rod would book a suite of rooms with one room dedicated to his hobby .... building the large buildings. He would make one city his base, fly out to do concerts and fly back to his base so he could work on his model railroad buildings. Now that is BIG LOVE for the hobby!! Fans have been known to give him model trains and train related items as gifts.
Again if I'm recalling correctly, Rod had been on the cover of MR two times with feature articles/photos written about his layout. He said ( again if I'm correctly recalling what I read in the MR article ) he considered being on the cover of MR a greater honor than being on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Several year ago, Model Railroader Magazine did a large spread about Rod Stewart and his passion for trains. He would take a couple steamer trunk fulls of stuff with him on the road and after a show, he would work on dioramas in his hotel suite to relax. He had people back in LA that would tend to the electrical work on the layout when he was on the road . They said they always knew when Rod had been back in town because there would be new stuff on the layout (buildings, dioramas and the like). Rod was quoted as saying that having his layout in Model Railroader Magazine meant more to him than being in Rolling Stone Magazine.
