John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid

Richard Reynolds and Glenn Beier each committed the famous Gorre and Daphetid (Gory and Defeated) to motion picture film: Reynolds covered the original layout in Monteray, California and Beier the culmination of Allen's brillian model building career, the final Gorre, in his second home. Both used everything from extreme close-ups of running gear to sweeping vistas of his mountain ranges to capture John Allen's extraordinary talent. Two weeks after his death in 1972, fire destroyed John Allen's model railroading masterpiece - a project to which he had devoted almost his entire life. It was believed that only Allen's slides had survived the fire and that the films had been turned into ashes. This tape offers the ultimate display of model railroading: a vast network of standrad, narrow & mixed gauges - even a trolly line. More than 100 bridges, no two alike, some soaring more than five feet above the floor, others crawling the labyrinthine canyons of the Akinback Mountain range, complete with working cable cars and water wheels.