Does anyone have links to pictures Tom Cruise’s layout? Does he collect Lionel or is he an HO modeler?
I don’t recall him being mentioned as a train guy before?? Was he recently noted to be one??
Are you sure you are not confusing him with Rod Stewart?
Or neal Young who had one in a trailor ( tractor trailor) back in the 80’s/90’s for his son while on tour)
I don’t think Tom Cruise is a Lionel train buff. However, in one of his early movies, “Risky Business”, the character he portrayed had a very nice postwar Lionel layout, which was shown in several scenes in the movie. I’ll bet you can find it on Youtube. I’ll add a disclaimer…maybe he IS a Lionel fanatic in real life.
Or neal Young who had one in a trailor ( tractor trailor) back in the 80’s/90’s for his son while on tour)
I remember that trailer at York quite a few years ago if it the same one. Neil was in it operating the trains. I had Neil sign one of the Vapor cars that I had purchased and a Lionel catalog. He was really enjoying operating the trains and talking to the visitors.
Neil Young took a large layout on tour with him in 1997 for the H.O.R.D.E. (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere) tour which featured several other music artists. This layout also featured a large projection screen to demonstrate Lionel-Vision, to show the view from a small camera mounted inside the cab of the engine. It featured a psychedelic-painted Commodore Vanderbilt locomotive pulling a string of boxcars decorated with images and album covers of the artists who performed on the tour.
Neil brought the setup with him at the April 1998 York train meet.
Tom Cruise? thats one name I’ve never heard associated with model trains in any scale.
Neil Yound is part owner of Lionel I beleive, Rod Stewart has a HUGE HO layout that was in MR last year. Frank Sinatra’s estate has his mighty impressive Lionel setup at his Palm Springs home.
Maybe he’s getting into it because of his daughter, but I’d never have thought of him as a train guy, just a little too A type personality for something as layed back as model railroading[:P]
Lex Luthor had a pretty nice layout in the last Superman pic. I especially liked the way the tiny plastic people screamed when they got run over. [xx(] But I don’t think Kevin Spacey personally had anything to do with that. [:)]
Becky
From what I could find out, that Superman layout is 2 rail O gauge, but nothing to do with Kevin.
I wouldn’t equate Tom with trains.
NFL quarterback Gus Ferrotte is an O gauge train guy. When he was with the Miami Dolphins, he was a frequent visitor at Ready To Roll.
Could you imagine having the resources of a highly-paid athlete or entertainer to devote to trains! I would buy all Flyer that was mint in sealed boxes. I would rip the boxes open like we used to and run them on a fabulous to-die-for vintage American Flyer train layout of immense proportions.
Well, we can all dream can’t we! [(-D] [(-D] [(-D] [(-D]
Timboy
Neil Yound is part owner of Lionel I beleive,
He was before the Lionel bankruptcy, once Guggenheim Capitol Management purchased Lionel out of bankruptcy court that ended Neil’s part ownership.
In Risky Business, Tom Cruise’ character escapes the meyhem he’s unleashed by going to the basement and running his trains.
His layout appears to be 5’X10’ powered by a KW and running a mix of Lionel Post War and MPC-Era trains, including a PRR EP-5 with PRR Baby Madison Cars.
Jon [8D]
I stand corrected… it was a ZW:
Jon [8D]
That subject came up a while back on the MR side, what if you had unlimited funds, large space etc. I decided that I’d build several layouts in various scales in a sub-terainean layout “bunker”.
But I’m with you, I’m a runner not a warehouser! Keep those MIB items away from me or they’ll get run! I love being the first person to open a new box, even if it’s from 1902! [}:)]
Becky