Rod Stewart went to incredible lengths to keep his model train set in one piece when it moved from the US to England - hiring giant shipping containers and setting up an entire wood workshop in California for the job. The details are revealed in Continental Modeller magazine which says it was "an expensive exercise" but only about 5% were damaged on the road.
And that was music to Rod's ears - in part because it was securely packed by the same people who organise the logistics for his music gigs! The singer showed off his incredible scale model railway layout last week known as "Grand Street & Three Rivers Railroad" in his country home in England. Despite devoting thousands of hours to it, the 79-year-old continues to try to perfect it and is enhancing the setup to make it even bigger and better.
The set is a 1:87 scale North American model and has a main running line totalling in excess of 900 feet and "thousands of small details and figures filling every square foot of baseboard". The footprint of the layout is currently 62ft x 27ft but the track goes around the layout four times before it returns to its starting point.
Before anything was removed in Los Angeles, a grid plan of the old layout was made recording the location of all scenery, structures, and details. Based on the grid location identification, these elements were securely packed for safe shipment by Rocket Cargo, the company that handles the logistics for Sir Rod’s concerts.
