FEATURES


22	BUILD A TWO FOOT GAUGE GILPIN SHAY
		Extensive modification
		Ferdinand Mels

26	WOOD FOR WOOD’S SAKE
		Expert modeling
		Andreas Becker

28	SANTA FE ALL THE WAY
		Reefer details
		Bob Uniack

30	COLORADO NARROW GAUGE IN GERMANY
		A progress report
		Michael Wünschmann

36	THE FINESCALE RAILROADER CRITTER CHALLENGE
		A Photos Special
		Russ Reinberg

PLANS AND DRAWINGS

52	Silverton Northern Boxcar Number 2006


DEPARTMENTS

4	Letters		36	Photos
11	Product Reviews	53	Classified Ads
20	From The Editor	53	Index Of Advertisers


ON THE COVER

WE NEVER BOTHERED to count, but this issue’s Critter Challenge seems to have received entries from about eighty modelers. Preeminent critter guru, Tom Yorke, himself entered half a dozen locomotives and his photo of a mostly scratchbuilt Gn15 Plymouth earned a place on our cover. See another view of it and about 160 other photos beginning on page 36.



FEATURE ARTICLE

COLORADO NARROW GAUGE IN GERMANY
A progress report

BY MICHAEL WÜNSCHMANN
Photos by the author
1:22.5 Scale

FOUR YEARS HAVE passed since my outdoor layout and models appeared in FINESCALE RAILROADER’s September 2001 NARROW GAUGE ANNUAL. As some readers may recall, I scratchbuild all locomotives and many structures. As I hope should be evident from the photos, the layout represents the Denver & Rio Grande Western Marshall Pass route out of Sargents, Colorado.
At the time of my last article, I had just completed scratchbuilding my third K-36, Number 484. It now has a ....