The CBS reality TV show Undercover Boss this week featured Ronald Croatti, who went undercover in his uniform company UniFirst, posing as one of its rank-and-file employees.
Early into the episode as they featured the CEO’s personal life, they showed 15 seconds of him with his double-decker N scale model railroad layout!
You can watch the episode in its entirety here:
The trains show up at 4:15.
I saw that and have not been able to find any more info about his trains.
Ya I was watching that show also. It looked like a real nice layout, I didn’t even notice it was N scale. But it looked completed scenic and finished.
Any MR editors reading this? Sounds like another cover story!
Well hopefully one of the major magazines in our hobby (ahem, ahem) will do a cover story on his layout so you would get more info about his trains!
He sounds like another one of those “private” model railroaders that nobody hears about, there are a lot of them out there…
Of course it’s doubtful that his layout would ever show up in the pages of MR unless he has DCC, but I’d bet money one of the N Scale mags are taking notice!!
Mark
I’m sure he can afford a DCC system…the guy is a CEO after all!
MR has usually been pretty good about highlighting model railroading in pop culture. Does anyone know if Trains did an article on the movie Unstoppable?
The website mentioned Rod Stewart’s layout and cover article on Jimmy Kimmel Live. I would be both surprised (and disappointed) if they let this one slip by.
“Afford” has nothing to do with it, the vast majority of modelers just don’t need it or like it regardless of the expense involved.
Mark
WHAT??? Care to let everyone in on why you feel this way?[(-D]
That’s funny, the “Vast Majority” of modelers I know all run DCC, I’m still on DC, but only because a) My layout isn’t finished yet and b) I can’t afford it at the moment 
Well, it’s “fact” according to the DCC dealers survey of a year or so ago, 80% of us still use DC only, what’s funny about that?
Maybe they voted twice in Chicago?
Mark
Soooo,basically if it was ever revealed UniFirst CEO Ronald Croatti’s N scale layout had DCC, you would hate him.
I can’t beleive you would even make such an “absurd” statement!!!
Mark
Can we please get back to the OT (original topic) rather than getting OT (off topic) with the verbal DC vs. DCC sandbox fight? Thank you.
Tom
I highly doubt your 80% figure is true today, maybe ten years ago but not now. It’s probably 50-50 with DCC gaining every day. You never hear people ask about wiring a block layout but every day there is a question or two or ten about DCC. I’ve only visited and operated on one DC layout(and he is switching over soon) since I got back into model railroading but I’ve operated on or visited probably 30 or more DCC layouts. Why do you think that is? Go to a train show and 90% of those layouts are DCC. The vast majority of layouts you see in magazines are DCC so that’s got to say something doesn’t it? Magazines aren’t biased towards DCC layouts like you think they are. You can’t tell by looking at the pictures they publish how they run it. Come to the darkside Mark, I promise we won’t hurt you.[B]
Speak for yourself Mark…I do not know of many people in my area that are still using DC. My LHS’s sell far more DCC systems then DC “power packs”. I personally feel most people that are so negatively outspoken about DCC are the ones that are merely afraid to learn the system.
Guess it’s time to move on…
Tom
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