Commercially Produced Gorre & Daphetid Trains

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all of the info., everyone. I'll have to keep my eye open for them and see what I can find. It would be good to have the other passenger cars to go with my combine.

[IRONROOSTER]

NMRA has a Heritage Collection series of cars that they are producing is several scales painted and lettered for deceased model railroaders' railroad. The also have a Living Legends series for modelers not deceased. You do have to be a member. These are limited editions and the G&D which was the first is no longer available. More info at www.nmra.org.
Enjoy
Paul

[Jetrock]

I've seen G&D rolling stock for as little as $3-5 at train shows. Admittedly, it didn't last long at that price. I might pick some up myself--the idea of having rolling stock labeled for other model railroads appeals to me greatly, and the humor of having a free-lanced line's rolling stock on my prototype-based layout is appealing.

[Anonymous]

I know I saw somwhere that somone besides Roundhouse makes G&D stuff.

[Anonymous]

At this moment, a G&D Drover's caboose is for sale on ebay. You want some G&D stuff, simply go to Ebay and under search, type in Gorre and Dapheted. All the G&D stuff I have seen has been made by MDC. Also, John did have a Roundhouse 0-6-0, which he converted to a 2-6-0. This loco is seen in many of the photos in Westcott's book on the G&D. Many of John's locos where United Brass Imports. However, he converted many othere from kits, RTR and scratched a few, also!

[Anonymous]

there is got to be some out there. I will find them. I want some.

[cacole]

I purchased some of these items directly from MDC a couple of years ago, so check their Web site to see if any are still availabe. If they are, you can order direct.

http://www.mdcroundhouse.com

[CNJ831]

Sask - MDC Roundhouse did indeed produced a full set of freight cars and shorty passenge cars, plus a small locomotive (0-6-0?), in the G&D paint scheme some years ago. Of course, none of this equipment carried any resemblance to actual rolling stock used on John Allen's layout - they are G&D in paint only. These cars turn up on eBay from time to time and generally don't command any really high price so just keep an eye out for them.

CNJ831

[Anonymous]

I have a set of three roundhouse 50 foot overton coaches decorated in red with black roofs and a black strip along the top of the body.

The RPO baggage car was called Mousebelly ( a narrow gauge location on his second layout, not his final one), the combine is Eagles Nest and I think the observation is called Great divide but I can't remeber exactly.

Apparently they were a limited run and were getting rare when i bought them about four years ago.

[Anonymous]

There's been a couple of recent topics about John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid which made me think of this. Can anyone tell me about commercially produced rolling stock (and possibly even locomotives) that were sold in G&D paint schemes? I have a kit-built G&D Eagle's Nest combine that I bought used at a train store a few years ago. If I had to make a guess at who made it, I'd say Roundhouse, but that's just a guess. I've never seen these anywhere else since then.