Going out with a bang: More E. L. Moore Outhouses

All images courtesy James L. Dixon

This being the last post documenting the collection of E. L. Moore models owned by his grandson, I thought we'd go out with some outhouses. I say some, as there's more than what I've shown in this post. The rather suggestive ones I've withheld as I don't want trouble with Google's net nannies. I'll put photos of the complete collection in the book.

ELM considered himself something of a Specialist in HO-scale outhouses, and we've seen some examples of his work before (here and here).

In the above image, the 3rd outhouse from the left is actually the outhouse for Mr. Pottle's Potworks that appeared in the September 1975 issue of Model Railroader. 

ELM described how he built his outhouses in an article called A Mighty Relaxin' Job that appeared in the November 1975 issue of the NMRA Bulletin. As you might imagine, the article was something of a hot potato. It was first offered to Railroad Modeler in August 1972, but much to ELM's chagrin, they rejected it, for obvious reasons. RMC and MR wouldn't touch it.

Well, that's that. Again, I thank ELM's grandson for allowing me to post pictures of his collection, and give us a more complete understanding of his grandfather's work.