E. L. Moore's Tugboat & Barge

All photos courtesy James L. Dixon

We've seen a couple of boats by E. L. Moore before. One was a tugboat whose construction was described in Add a Harbor to your Pike, a 2-part article that appeared in the January and February 1968 issues of Railroad Model Craftsman.

The tugboat shown in the photo, the Taurus, also appeared in that 2-part article. However, the Taurus is a kit that was sold by a company called Model Shipways. ELM notes in the article that he used it to figure out how to build a boat model, and then applied that knowledge to scratch build the other tugboat and the barge, also shown in the photo.

The articles also described how to build a sail loft, which we have also seen. If all these boats and the loft could be acquired, the harbor scene from the articles could be recreated. A tantalizing idea.