GUNNISON MODELING NOTES
My good friend Glenn Farley encourged me to do the roundhouse
models in O scale after completing Gunnison in Sn3. The narrow gauge bug had hit him really
big. After much taunting I finally gave him a challange: Okay, I'll do the brickwork with a
focus on doing Durango properly and you do the stonework for Gunnison. Thinking this would
get him off my case I went along merrily. A few months went by and I had almost forgotten
about it when the phone rang. It was Glenn checking in. How you doing on the brick work?
Oh, pretty good. I'm kind of busy with orders. How about you. Well, I'm working on it
over the holidays. In February, the phone rings again. It's Glenn. He's almost done. He
needs some more of the hand-carved stone stock panels. He wants to do the interior.
What have I gotten myself into? Glenn pointed out that it appears
there was a door in the side wall he is doing. There, right behind the tail of that locomotive.
Sure enough, it look like there is. Another roster shot revealed some more detail. None of
this had appeared on the drawings I had worked from when I did it in S-scale. Nor had I seen
them in the books and photos I had. And so it is not in my model. But it is on Glenn's. And
it will be in the kits along with a bunch of other details we have discovered along with the
interior brick and stone. When I hung up the phone I knew I had to get busy on the brickwork
I had promised.
Glenn is writing a series of articles about the Gunnison roundhouse
model that will be published in the Narrow Gauge Gazette so for the time being this section
will be limited to some teasers photos.
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