0-6-0 search finds ?-4-0
I searched through some of E. L. Moore's photos of his Elizabeth Valley Railroad to see if there were any locos similar to the USRA 0-6-0. All the photos in this post are cropped and enhanced from larger ones.
I didn't find any exact matches, but I did see this little engine that I think is an 0-4-0.
Visually, it looks like a shorter version of the USRA 0-6-0, and they've both got a coal hauling sloped tender. It's interesting that the 0-4-0 has no markings even though he lettered other locos with EVRR.
That is a stock Mantua Shifter- a nice little model that was sold for decades in both RTR and kit form, you can find them readily on EBay.
ReplyDeleteLove your E. L. Moore stuff,
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Thanks for the kind words and for identifying that loco! I'm still hoping I can find an 0-4-0 like it in N scale.
DeleteThe Mantua Shifter was a great place to start detailing. I started one a while back...been married 15 years and got mine not long after that so geez it has been a while! Anyway, one day I'll pull it out of the box and get back to it.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking the Mantua Shifter might have been the first loco he owned. I zoomed in on the loco in this picture: https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/2016/10/the-holy-grail-of-e-l-moore-photos-has.html and it's the Shifter. I wonder if the Shifter was ever part of a train set? Maybe his first set of rolling stock was whatever was packaged in an affordable set?
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