shortliner Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 .....the hobby as long as I have, you may have come across E.L.Moore in MR. He was an "Old School" structure modeller, frequently slightly whimsical, long before all the similar looking, plastic, kits were available. So I was delighted to come across a link on FB this morning to a site that just might give people "different" ideas. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you take a look. In fact, by my reckoning, this almost comes into the category of "Eye Candy" https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2016-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2017-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=50 Some of his work, is almost comparable to an American version of John Aherns "Madder Valley" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 By coincidence, this Willis shortline unit was also posted today, seemed to me to be just the thing for Jack (Shortliner) to incorporate into one of his tiny layout (pike ?) models. https://www.flickr.com/photos/130647200@N05/22555683853/ No silencer on the engine... a DCC sound equipped model would clear any exhibition hall ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 By coincidence, this Willis shortline unit was also posted today, seemed to me to be just the thing for Jack (Shortliner) to incorporate into one of his tiny layout (pike ?) models. https://www.flickr.com/photos/130647200@N05/22555683853/ No silencer on the engine... a DCC sound equipped model would clear any exhibition hall ! DonB, can you repost the link please - that takes me to a "Not the page you are looking for?" page Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlowe30SQ Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Hello, Thanks for posting a link to some E. L. Moore material at my blog. One thing I should point out was that ELM was a Roland Emett fan and his first model railway diorama, dating from around 1955, was a tribute to Emett. A photo can be found here, https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/2016/02/e-l-moores-ode-to-emmett.html All of the ELM and Roland Emett posts can be found here, https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/search/label/Rowland%20Emett I've had the opportunity to read through what remains of ELM's files. An index to excepts from the files are listed here, https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/2016/06/index-to-e-l-moore-files-excerpts.html As well, there were a couple of boxes of lost ELM photos, a list of them are here, https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/2016/09/index-to-e-l-moores-photographs.html and photos of surviving ELM models are listed here, https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/2015/10/index-to-e-l-moore-models-posts.html Cheers, Jim. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Jim. thank you for posting on here - I, too, am a Rowland Emett fan, and I can see that his cartoons would appeal to E L Moores sense of whimsicality - I am thoroughly enjoying looking back at some of his articles such as Jones Chemical Co. Best Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlowe30SQ Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 ELM also seemed to have an interest in Welsh locomotives. Here is a Welsh-American hybrid he built sometime either in the late '50s or early '60s: https://30squaresofontario.blogspot.ca/2016/10/wales-meets-colorado-on-eagleroost.html That photo seemed to generate a lot of comments about how to build a replica. He was an original, not quite up there with John Ahern, but he certainly made lots of contributions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonB Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Re-posting the Willis Shortline "the Black Widow" flickr.com/photos/130647200@N05/22555683853/ Edit.. works for me this time (URL cut and paste both times) just in case,,, flickr.com/photos/130647200@N05/22555683853/ Photographer Bill Gordon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 14, 2017 Author Share Posted January 14, 2017 Reminds me of an old song "Three wheels on my wagon, just keeps rollin' along....." Thanks for posting! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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