Joined: 13/10/2004(UTC) Posts: 2,616
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Hello everybody, I'd like to share this with you. Every now and then a name of a well known person,who also is a MRR enthusiast,is mentioned in some magazine or newspaper. This time its the other famous Scotsman Rod Stewart with his layout in ModelRailroader. http://www.trains.com/mrr/Don't know about you,but to me it always seems nice to know when a familiar name comes up in MRR,especially so when someone has just made a remark on your hobby like :You're into what   That's kids stuff!!! Kind regards Guus |
Kind regards, Guus |
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Joined: 06/03/2005(UTC) Posts: 1,159 Location: The Netherlands
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How about the Dutch writer Baantjer with his large LGB garden layout? By now, a Märklin fan too  . |
Absolutly AFB-NOHAB fan ;-) |
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Joined: 30/09/2005(UTC) Posts: 904 Location: bologna, BO
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Joined: 10/12/2002(UTC) Posts: 329
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I actually ended up with one of Riccardo Patrese's engines from his Marklin collection - box is autographed and everything pretty cool I thought. Got it on eBay many years ago. |
Collecting / Fixing and Running trains since 1966. |
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Joined: 03/01/2003(UTC) Posts: 5,193 Location: Southern New Jersey, USA
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I got two Silberlinge coaches and an old wooden Faller house from the Red Skelton collection. |
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Joined: 20/04/2003(UTC) Posts: 2,248 Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Göteborg, Sverige,
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Sander
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Joined: 30/09/2005(UTC) Posts: 904 Location: bologna, BO
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Quote:[size=1" face="Verdana" id="quote]quote:Originally posted by 7gauges <br />I actually ended up with one of Riccardo Patrese's engines from his Marklin collection - box is autographed and everything pretty cool I thought. Got it on eBay many years ago.
Wow! Which engine is it? [:p]
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Joined: 18/09/2004(UTC) Posts: 789 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Did anyone ever figure out who owned the "million dollar" collection that Reynauld's was selling on consignment last year? I got 5 locos from that and have wondered who owned them. Rumors abounded that it was a tycoon who ran afoul of the law...
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Joined: 18/09/2004(UTC) Posts: 789 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
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BTW the actor Mandy Patinkin is a collector
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Joined: 08/01/2006(UTC) Posts: 2,218 Location: Shady Shores, TX - USA
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Quote:[size=1" face="Verdana" id="quote]quote:Originally posted by stenscience <br />BTW the actor Mandy Patinkin is a collector
I new he collected Linoel but I didn't know he collected marklin  "I am Inigo Montoya, You killed my farther now prepare to die"  From princes bride |
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Joined: 25/07/2002(UTC) Posts: 826 Location: Tallahassee, FL USA
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Hi: When Tom Snyder, the host of the "Tomorrow" shop on NBC, died, his obit mentioned that he was a model railroader.--MM |
Michael Mascagni, Tallahassee
If I weren't a Mathematician, I'd be a Violinist.--Albert Einstein |
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Joined: 10/12/2003(UTC) Posts: 356 Location: San Francisco, California USA
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Rock star Neil Young Loves Lionel so much that he bought part of the company. |
Marklin HO - all eras and everything. |
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Joined: 05/12/2004(UTC) Posts: 2,994 Location: CA, USA
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I had the pleasure of meeting Tom Snyder and doing some repair work on his layout in the SF bay area. One of the coolest layouts I've ever seen. It can only be described as standard gauge "Hi Rail" |
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Joined: 13/10/2004(UTC) Posts: 2,616
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Hi all,
This topic got more replies than I anticipated.
Märklin Magazine too, wrote some articles on this topic not so long ago.
Guus
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Kind regards, Guus |
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Joined: 15/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 1,591 Location: Pennsylvania
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Quote:[size=1" face="Verdana" id="quote]quote:Originally posted by stenscience <br />Did anyone ever figure out who owned the "million dollar" collection that Reynauld's was selling on consignment last year? I got 5 locos from that and have wondered who owned them. Rumors abounded that it was a tycoon who ran afoul of the law...
Reynauld told me who owned the collection. I will just say that he is the CEO or president of a very large US/global corporation. There are no legal problems, just that the guy realized he had far too much stuff, since he had recently discovered the hobby and had bought up several large collections, and a major east coast hobby shop to boot. One clue is the the company was founded by someone who was very instrumental in the development of "modern railroading", through a significant invention they guy came up with, patented and manufactured (starting in the pittsburgh area).
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Joined: 18/09/2004(UTC) Posts: 789 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
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OK thanks jonquinn. If the guy wants his privacy I can respect that. Good to know that it wasn't one of the creeps you see doing the perp walk after pulling down multimillion dollar compensation packages. The locos I got were in excellent shape at a good priceI didn't pay any premium for the 'celebrity' ownership. Do you know if the sale is going on? I checked periodically and R never updated, so I lodt interest after a while...
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Joined: 15/02/2004(UTC) Posts: 1,591 Location: Pennsylvania
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sale is still ongoing, and when I stopped there last summer Rey said this was just a fraction of what the guy has. I don't know how much more will be listed. the sale link is still on reynauld's website. I don't know if he specifically wants his privacy maintained, but he must have or I'm sure Reynaulds would have said so otherwise on the website. I don't know his name but I think I could find it out relatively easily by looking up on yahoo.
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