Has Rod Stewart Lost His Marbles?
In an era when middle-aged men unashamedly purchase electric guitars in hopes of recapturing a lost youth much cooler than the one they actually lost, how does the older professional rock star, for whom a vintage Fender Stratocaster is just one more deductible business expense, salve his weary soul?
For Rod Stewart, the answer is: model railways.
Those men who are about to look up from their newspapers and say, “If you ever catch me playing with a toy train set, please shoot me,” should be advised to hold their tongues, for one never knows what one will get up to past the age of 50, the traditional threshold of unembarrassability.
It’s unlikely that Rod himself, in his early days with the Faces, ever imagined that he would one day own and operate a 1500sq ft, 1:87 scale model of Grand Central Station and environs (circa 1940), complete with 5ft skyscrapers and 9,000 feet of track. Nor, perhaps, would he picture it appearing on the front cover of a popular model railway enthusiasts’ magazine, or himself saying, “It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.”
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