Model Trains – They’re a Man Thing
Do you know what Steven Spielberg, Neil Young, Pete Waterman and James May all have in common? They are all model train enthusiasts.
Well know music producer Pete Waterman has a huge system housed in 200 foot barn, reputed to be worth at least half a million pounds. He even has his own model train making company. And this isn’t in the least bit unusual amongst wealthy model train enthusiasts. Steven Spielberg and Neil Young have their own model train company called Lionel trains.
And this group of well known personalities are not alone in their enthusiasm for model trains. Building and running model train sets is no longer a hobby pursued by young boys. These days their dads and uncles, along with some old time rock musicians, who are more likely to be Hornby train enthusiasts.
Model train collecting has become big business. Collectors look for vintage model locomotives that are in pristine condition, still in their boxes having never been used on a track. As Mr May says, these models were meant to be played with and not kepe in their boxes.
At a model train auction Mr won a completely unused Hornby train set for £200 which other collectors would have kept, unused, in its box. Mr May unceremoniously threw the box away when he built the system in his James May’s Top Toys television programme.
In the pre-Christmas December 20th edition of James May’s Toy Stories he and loads of helpers rebuild the long lost rail link between Bideford and Barnstaple in Devon using OO gauge model train track. Although some of the track was stolen by vandals Bideford and Barnstaple was once again linked by rail, allbeit for a short time. Obviously the model trains didn’t carry any passengers of goods but the people involved had a great time building the track.
You could win one of two fantastic Hornby Train Sets in the current Christmas Hornby Competition from modelzone.co.uk. All you have to do is answer one simple question and you could win a fantastic Hornby train set.
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