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| Left: Cal's Lumber Yard | Right: Grusom Casket Co. (both snipped from July '77 MR) |
Galen tipped me off to some E. L. Moore goodness in the Trackside Photos section of the July 1977 issue of Model Railroader. On the left is a build up of Cal's Lumber Yard by George Landow, which is appropriately called the E. L. Moore Lumber Co., and on the right is a build up of the Grusom Casket Co. kit on Lila Martin's Sierra & White River RR (I also see what looks like another Machine Shop build up in the full picture, which I didn't include here). I sometimes think a list of all E. L. Moore project sightings in model railroading magazines since the '60s would be as thick as a telephone book, if telephone books still existed :-)
I do love that old-time box car on the left.
ReplyDeleteAnd it just fits in the lumber yard.
DeleteLooks like a Central Valley "Cutler and Savidge" lumber car; very appropriate for the setting.
DeleteA "telephone directory depository" would be a humorous description for a structure. Perhaps Uncle Cal has a scheme to recycle them and make something marketable with the pulp.
Thanks for letting me know what car that is! I'm going to see if I can find one, and I wonder if ELM used one in his photos of the project.
DeleteA Telephone Directory Depository sounds just unusual enough to make me think such a place might have once existed. In the Dowdy World maybe?