Here's a listing of famous people who are or were "into" model railroading:

• Tom Brokaw
• Gary Coleman - N-scale (RMC September 1990)
• Phil Collins
• Winston Churchill
• Joe DiMaggio
• Walt Disney
• Michael Gross - actor; N-scale; involved in the World's Greatest Hobby tour
• Ed Dougherty - golfer; Lionel; Tracks Ahead episode
• Merle Haggard
• Tom Hanks
• Elton John
• Michael Jordan
• Paul Klipsch - founder of the Klipsch loudspeaker company.
• Ricardo Patrese, the Formula-1 race car driver
• Frank Sinatra - Lionel
• Bruce Springsteen
• Rod Stewart - "Three Rivers City" HO-scale layout featured in Model Railroader December 2010
• Donald Sutherland
• Mel Torme
• Neil Young - developed Lionel's Trainmaster Control System.