Saturday, January 20, 2018

Do all roads lead to E. L. Moore?

[Image snipped from the Feb '79 issue of Model Railroader article, It sure doesn't look like a powder works, by George P. Landow]

Thus far I had built a Campbell wharf, a few other scratchbuilt docks and buildings in HO scale, and was trying to devise a good plan for a marine supply company when I opened the pages of the April 1977 MODEL RAILROADER. There I encountered E. L. Moore's Cannonball & Safety Powder Works. Granted, it does not look that much like my completed structure. But those of you interested in the way one kind of model can be developed into a very different one will be able to apply some of these construction techniques to your own modelling.
And so begins George Landow's article on how to build the Frary & Hayden Marine Supply Co., appearing appeared in the Feb '79 issue of Model Railroader, that was based on E. L. Moore's Cannonball & Safety Powder works that appeared in the Apr '76 issue of Model Railroader.

As I thought more about those AHM Trolleys, I remembered that Art Curren's Kitbash a rail bus article that appeared in the June '79 issue of MR used a trolley as its basis. It turns out it was a Tyco Trolley - which maybe is the AHM trolley - but his article stated he also did a doodlebug kitbash in the Feb '79 issue, and following the trail to see if that also used a trolley, I stumbled across George Landow's excellent marine supply based on E. L. Moore's powder works. Do all roads lead to E. L. Moore? Apparently when you ride with me they do :-)

5 comments:

  1. Seems like many new HO products resemble E. L. Moore buildings. Most of Woodland Scenics Built-and-Ready's look it. Type in "wood craftsman kits" and... well, the first page I went to had a kit called "B. J. Scott's Lumber Co, which was taken from E.L.'s terminal article from 1967. One click later on the same site was a kit actually CALLED "E. L. Moore Window & Door Co."! He seemed to set the standard that still has great appeal today.

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    1. I'm always glad to see that those projects still have life today. I'll check out that link.

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  2. By the way, that site was http://www.railroadkits.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_7&sort=20a&page=1

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  3. "Do all roads lead to E. L. Moore? Apparently when you ride with me..."

    then I reckon you're on the right track!

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    1. Thanks! I was starting to think I need to get a new GPS.....

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