"Gorre & Daphetid" CLIP2 from Sunday River Productions 

This is the early 50's as all of these clips were taken on the 2nd Gorre and Daphetid as apposed to the 3rd, most famous one.

these clips are from the second gorre&daphetid rr that john built in the house on irving street. you can find a whole chapter on this version 0f the g&d in the book by lynn wescott "model railroading with john allen".

Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a fire shortly after John Allen’s death in 1973. Only a couple of locomotives survived. The layout was a complete loss.

John Allen was a professional photographer in Monterey, Ca. His freelanced Gorre & Daphetid Railroad, abbreviated as GD, except not in pleasant company, served mountainous Colorado.

Rather run down, and fighting to keep going - hence the name.

Sorry, I thought you meant state as in condition. I'm a Limey.

She wasn't an 0-6-0, but a 2-4-0. At the beginning of the film, at 0.19 to about 0.25 you see the finished model working a mixed train on the Devil's Gulch & Hellangon line.

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⁠@@Trainz11She actually is an 0-6-0. She was the Devil’s Gulch and Helengon #1. #3 was the 2-4-0. I don’t believe that John ever got around to painting it. This was shot on his earlier layout in 1953, he moved and began to build his iconic basement empire in 1954. #1 was stolen by an unknown visitor in 1960. John’s friend Whit Towers also had a model stolen from him at some point.

But it's still something to marvel at.

It's better than modern day, nowadays layouts are all overrun by plasticy cheap trains and buildings. This layout was built in the days when the buildings were scratch built, the cars were wooden and heavy duty paper kits, the locomotives were metal and pulled a ton, the track was hand laid, and the power was all DC, no computer controlled DCC. It may not be as precise and prototypical, but it has a more believable look.

Amen to hand laid track. I've never seen another layout since that didn't use plastic prefab track.

Why wouldn't it compare to todays standards. It is one of the finest model railroad ever built.