E. L. Moore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

E. L. Moore

US model railroader

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1898

Place of Birth: Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1979

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Earl Lloyd Moore (March 14, 1898 - August 12, 1979) was an American model railroader who published over a hundred pieces in various American model railroading magazines between 1955 and 1980 under the name E.
L.
Moore.
His articles dealt primarily with scratch-building HO scale structures from low-cost, simple materials, primarily balsa wood.
Moore prided himself on being able to construct complex models in little time for little money.
He often noted that his projects could be built for a couple of dollars worth of materials in a couple of weeks of evenings.
Moore undertook this work while a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina. Moore concentrated on depicting the buildings and life of rural America in the 1890s and early 1900s - the period around his boyhood - in accordance with his personal view on the era.
Moore's articles are notable both for their subject matter as well as their style.
Along with the model under discussion, Moore would write the text, shoot and develop the photographs, and draft the plans.
The accompanying photographs would often include one or more detailed staged scenes depicting everyday life with the building, and the text often wove in a humorous fictional story about the building and its inhabitants.
He did not concentrate on modeling particular real railroads as is the norm for model railroad hobbyists, but focused on modeling buildings of both railroad and non-railroad subjects, as well as scenery.