Star Trek Meets The Rails

Patrick Stewart is a brilliant actor. He will forever hold an place in my heart for his portrayal of the often-stiff (sometimes kindhearted) Captain Jean Luc Picard on "Star Trek The Next Generation."

The accomplished actor also mesmerized as the brilliant and powerful wheelchair-ridden mutant leader, Professor X, in the "X-Men" motion picture series. He was most enjoyable in scenes in which he encountered his arch nemesis Magneto, played by the effervescent Ian McKellen (perhaps best remembered for his role as Gandalph in "The Lord of the Rings" saga).

so when was he "knighted" and for what?

Captain Picard was always talking about "N-gauge".

Google is your friend. You will learn more about Sir Stewart than you can imagine.

"Make it so!"

Larry

Well said, Number One!

oh... I thought you were referring to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzOa1lveUp4

Years back my wife (now ex) and I saw Patrick Stewart perform live a one person performance of "A Christmas Carol."

He was awesome!

Stuart

Sir Patrick Stewart, like many of his fellow British actors, was trained in Shakespeare, and live stage performances.

There is NO finer training ground for any performer!   

Absolutely!  Just ask Obi Wan Kenobi.

It's HO scale, but a pal of mine who's hug into trek has a very large layout (these days it's more like a parking lot for his massive brass steam locomotive collection) called the Enterprise and McCoy. He even asked me to draw up artwork several years ago for speed striping on the cabs, he uses the same Federation insignia, pointed in the direction of travel, along with striping, all in gold, on most of his home-road-lettered locomotives. I don't have any photos of his rolling stock to post here, though.

Steam pulling Amtrak metroliners and double-stacks, stuff like that. The justification is the suggestion that you might not be looking at the 20th (or even 21st) century. He has industries named after various sci-fi stuff, too.

Definitely a unique way to pay homage to the Star Trek phenomenon! 

Personally a little "over the top" for me! 

I am a Star Trek fan, but NOT a "Trekkie"! 

It's over the top for anyone. Even the guy who owns the Trek-marked stuff would admit to that.

Glad you didn't go into that eye-rolling argument over "trekkie" v/s "trekker," which is about the silliest thing I've ever heard over and over...

I really like sci-fi and have several props and cosutmes from TV shows in my collection as well as having some sci-fi uniforms that will fit me (nothing from trek, though), but I wouldn't consirder myself a raving sci-fi nut in a 'Big Bang Theory' character kind of way. I like Trek and have met several of the stars from the original series over the years (had a nice talk with gene Roddenberry about him flying B-17s in WW2 once, much the dismay of those who wanted to talk trek with him instead, but he liked talking about that timeframe instead) but I dont think i own any Trek stuff other than  couple of the movie DVDs...

Interesting, so Roddenberry was an Air Corps man, yet all his series are essentially nautically based, brimming with that terminology! 

Sailing must have been a MAJOR pastime? 

Rapido Trains had it covered when they announced their HO LRC model...

Rusty

As an aside, has anyone seen the reporting marks of the tool car that accompanies 1225?

No, what are the reporting marks?

Sir Patrick is a fantastic human being.

NCC1701X. When I first saw it I had to think about it for a minute.

I like his CIA director character on American Dad.

Good show, gov'nah!

I couldn't find a photo anywhere online, but this site says that it's a former trop sleeper that apparently isn't used on trips anymore, I'd love to see a shot of those markings: http://michigansteamtrain.com/our-collection/

I'm sorry, I don't have any. But note it is mentioned in the description.