My oh my, where are all the wonderful toys? Let’s start this off by a long-rumoured layout by Mr. Rod Stewart. Now, I expected Lionel, big and ornate but three-rail wonders. (No like three rails.) Instead, I find a most wonderful fully-realised fine scale modeling layout Maybe he will do a video layout tour! With the new cameras that can be housed in a locomotive, one can get a rail-eye view.
The real 4014 has been traveling all around Colorado. Saw it a few years ago when I was moving out to Evans (which is part of Greeley) just by pure chance and God’s good will. Anyhow, been posting about this on FB, and up pops this Lionel monster. The video has some solid history at the front, the latter part getting into item description and some technical stuff. Skip to about 35 minutes in to see it operate. (The guy blabs interesting but obscure details in the interim).
I’ve mentioned it before, but as a teen I worked very hard on being a fine-scale model-maker. Got good enough to do some displays and even was offered a job at a little Van Nuys company called ILM. Went to work in psych nursing instead. Major fork in life’s road! So, my stuff was more like Stewart’s layout, above, than Lionel. Trivia: for a long time, Neil Young owned Lionel Trains. Don’t know if he still is involved. But did Rod Stewart and Neil Young ever make a train song? Noooo!
BTW, I went and checked, and -if you can find one – these start around $2,700.00.
