[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Famous Railroaders List - Still Growing

[Fred Schneider]

And there was one on that list that my wife sat next to in church and  
never knew it until afterward when the assistant rector said, "Did  
you know who you were sitting with?"   The man was in Lancaster  
filming the movie "The Witness" and he chose to simply be one of the  
flock that Sunday at St. James Episcopal Church.   Harrison Ford  
probably was a lot happier that Marie didn't recognize him.   Her  
memories were that his coat was covered with dandruff.   How about  
that ... just like the rest of us except they earn their money  
entertaining the public.   But they still put their pants on one leg  
at a time.

I palled around with a local railfan named Bill Allen as a young  
man.   Bill had an MG TD.   We did crazy things like starting it with  
a crank at a gas station just for effect.   I remember driving it  
across Philadelphia from Kensington to 69th Street with the  
windscreen folded down.   When we looked at ourselves in the mirror  
at 69th Street Terminal that afternoon we looked like two coal  
miners.   Bill's mom was a Disney, I think a first cousin to  
Walter.    I guess Bill came by railfanning naturally.

There were also a lot of non modeling railfans in high places and who  
were not in the industry.   One that comes to mind, whose pictures  
were published, was Senator Richard Neuberger from Oregon.

My wife's sister went through Juliard and performed all over the  
United States along with her husband as duo classical pianists.    
Most normal people don't recognize them but I was surprised when  
Walter Keevil, the equipment engineer from Chicago Transit Authority,  
walked into the house one day, heard one of their records on the  
phonograph and immediately recognized Veri and Jamanis performing.  I  
remember having dinner at their home, sitting next to a great man and  
fantastic conversationalist, not long before he died ... the flamenco  
dancer Jose Greco.    Great in my mind because he was normal.    And  
I was once asked to take pictures for them at a party with all the  
Gershwin relatives in New York City.

I guess, if anything, I would not want to be famous.   Can you  
imagine trying to get away from the crush of people?

On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Jim Holland wrote:

>> "Big Rich Soprano"  wrote in message news:...
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>> Famous Model Railroaders:
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>> (alphabetized by last name)
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>> Tim Allen (comedian)
>> Gene Autry ("The Singing Cowboy")
>> Roseanne Barr (actor)
>> Tom Brokow (newscaster)
>> Yul Brynner (actor "The King and I")
>> Johnny Cash (country music singer)
>> Winston Churchill (former British Prime Minister)
>> Gary Coleman (actor "Diff'rent Strokes")
>> Phil Collins (rock singer)
>> Kevin Costner (actor)
>> Richard Crenna (actor)
>> Walter Cronkite (radio/TV personality)
>> Roger Daltry (lead singer of the Who/actor)
>> Joe DiMaggio (baseball player)
>> Walt Disney (producer)
>> James Doohan (actor "Star Trek")
>> Donald Duck (in the cartoon short "Not To Scale" - fictional
>> character)
>> Erik Estrada ("CHiPs")
>> Harrison Ford ("Star Wars" "Indiana Jones")
>> Arthur Godfrey (radio/TV personality)
>> Whoopi Goldberg (actor)
>> Hermann Göring (head of German Luftwaffe)
>> Merle Haggard (country singer)
>> Tom Hanks (actor) - Appeared on "Family Ties" episodes
>> David Hasselhoff (actor "Baywatch") - Starred with MG in Avalanche
>> Elton John (rock singer)
>> Michael Jordan (basketball player)
>> Captain Kangaroo (kids' show host)
>> Buster Keaton (comedian)
>> Christopher Lee (actor "Dracula")
>> Jay Leno (TV talk show host)
>> Jack Lord (actor "Hawaii Five-O")
>> Groucho Marx (actor, game show host)
>> Roger Miller (country singer)
>> Mandy Patinkin (actor "Chicago Hope", "The Princess Bride")
>> John Patterson "Dad" ("For Better Or For Worse" - fictional  
>> character)
>> John Pertwee (actor "Doctor Who")
>> Sally Jesse Raphael (TV talk show host)
>> Lionel Ritchie (singer)
>> Roy Rogers
>> Rick Schroder (actor "Silver Spoons", "NYPD Blue")
>> Frank Sinatra (singer)
>> Bruce Springsteen (rock singer)
>> Jill St. John (actor "Diamonds Are Forever")
>> Sylvester Stallone (actor "Rocky" "Rambo")
>> Patrick Stewart (actor "Star Trek: The Next Generation")
>> Rod Stewart (rock singer)
>> Donald Sutherland (actor)
>> Mel Torme (singer)
>> Neil Young (singer, also a part-owner of Lionel)
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