Description: The Gunnison plow, 09271 was rebuilt in the 1920s from an old Gondola. It was intended to be used on the various D&RGW lines out of Gunnison, Colorado where conditions meant that a rotary could not be used because of the risk of slide debris, trees, rocks, in the snow which would damage the rotary blade. The plow blade was an old locomotive pilot plow, leading a car body heavily weighted with rocks to try and ensure it stayed on the rail. It lasted until 1955, when shorn of the blade and the internals, it was used as a winch car in scrapping the branches out of Gunnison and itself then scrapped.
The model uses parts from a Narrow Gauge Colorado kit. This supplied most of the laser cut wood parts and the resin plow blade, but much of the detail has been sourced from other parts or scratchbuilt. As you may imagine, this car got heavy use in the winters, and tended to be repaired or rebuilt, and repainted, most summers, so it changed in details many times. This model is as close as can be ascertained to 1950 condition, with little weathering. The rock are Colorado dirt!