Monday, November 16, 2015

E. L. Moore's Tuscaloosa Depot

[E. L. Moore's Tuscaloosa Depot; J. R. Fisher collection]

E. L. Moore's Tuscaloosa Depot was published in the March 1969 issue of Model Railroader.
I was glad to see this model as I'd posted earlier that the article's lead-in photo is staged the same as one of the depot in Beebe and Clegg's When Beauty Rode the Rails.
But, seeing it reminds me of Mr. Moore's Elizabethton Depot. There's the obvious similarity that they're both green, they both have roof-top decorations and the roofs are removable, and both are somewhat Victorian.
But, it's the inside roof construction that adds a further point of similarity.
The lighting and wiring connection method is more-or-less identical.
Contacts on the roof gussets slide against matching contacts on the inside walls to power the lights.
The inside, like many others in the collections, is neat and finished, if somewhat Spartan.

3 comments:

  1. You've mentioned E.L. loved using the color green. I'll add that he seemed to like green and red together; green walls, red trim. Even pale green with dark red trim. That's unusual yet so ELM.

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    1. Yes, that's a good point about trim colour. I'll need to take a look over some of the other pictures to see where else he used that combination.

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  2. You've mentioned E.L. loved using the color green. I'll add that he seemed to like green and red together; green walls, red trim. Even pale green with dark red trim. That's unusual yet so ELM.

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