Rod Stewart spent 23 years building a model train set

Plenty of celebrities have their vices, but Rod Stewart is hooked on a particularly expensive and addictive habit: Model trains.

In a recent interview with Railway Modeller magazine, the rocker revealed he's spent the past 23 years building an elaborate model train set, which weaves through a large fictional city of his own creation in the attic of his Los Angeles mansion.

As Stewart explained, he's so dedicated to realistic detail that he has put fake garbage in the gutters and ensured each stone in the pavement is a slightly different color — retroactively calling the title of his album Never a Dull Moment into question. Read more at TMZ.

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