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.
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