The setup measures 124ft by 23ft and was 12 years in the making. Here is grand Central Station in New York as it was in the 1940's:
Rod Stewart's Train Set Dream Comes TrueThere is another article in This Is London:
Rocker Rod Stewart has fulfilled a lifelong ambition - by appearing on the front cover of a model railway magazine.
Experts said the 62-year-old singer has created one of the best train sets they have ever seen.
And when Rod and wife Penny went out to posh London restaurant Nobu on Monday night, the December issue of US magazine Model Railroader could be seen in the back of their car.
The singer had spent 12 years making his special railway, which measures 124ft by 23ft.
Rod spent thousands of hours - and dollars - putting it together before sending pictures in to the model railway magazine.
They decided to put it on the front cover. In an interview inside the magazine, Rod revealed just how special that was to him.
He said: "It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.
Do ya think I'm sexy now? Rod's latest model isn't tall and blonde - it's a railway setAs Jen commented -- the music is his job, the trains are his passion. Very cool!
It's no secret that Rod Stewart has a thing for models.
But it may come as a surprise that his passion extends beyond the blonde, statuesque variety.
The raspy-voiced rocker has created an impressive model railway featured in an American magazine.
Laid out at his Beverly Hills mansion, the 1:87-scale version of New York's Grand Central Station in the Forties boasts 100ft of track, period locomotives, skyscrapers, advertisement hoardings and lots of tiny passengers in period hats and coats.
Its appearance on the cover of this month's Model Railroader realises a lifelong ambition for 62-year-old Rod, who has said that such an honour would "mean more to me than the cover of Rolling Stone".
