Was the popular TYCO/AHM “Ma’s Place” kit based on a scratchbuilt structure for which plans were printed in a magazine, like so many other kits of the era?
If so, who built it and how might I find it in the Index?
The kit was based on an E L Moore article in RMC. A search of the MR magazine index found the following info:
Build Ma’s Place
Railroad Model Craftsman, January 1967 page 27
( “MOORE, E.L.”, STORE, RMC )
Jim Bernier
Dang! That was quick!
Given how highly I thnk of his work, it doesn’t come as a surprise that it was based on an E.L. Moore article.
Thanks.
I would like to see RMC [maybe this isn’t the place for this?] put all the EL Moore buildings,plans and story that always went with them in one book…If I rember right he did do at least 1 for Model Railroader it was a Fire Cracker factory that he blew up after he finnished it!..seems like he did some engine service buildings for MR too…Cox 47
Moore did a bunch of articles for MR, and a lot for RMC, too.
I LOVE “Ma’s Place”, I’ve got the original AHM kit, had it for God only knows how long, and it has an honored place across Plum Creek Gorge from Sierra City on my Yuba River Sub. It’s the local miner/logger-- uh, ‘Establisment’ and is extremely popular on Friday and Saturday nights after the guys come out of the woods and up from the shafts, LOL!
Ma, herself, is a Pillar of the local Episcopal Church and she and the ‘girls’ contribute a great deal of money to both the Miner’s and Logger’s Benevolent Societies. Place wouldn’t be the same without her. Of course, during the day, it’s a really popular restaurant in the front space, she and the girls whip up some really GREAT Mountain Meals. Best Cornish Pasties in the area, there! Just don’t make the mistake–as the Mayor’s son has in the photo–of thinking that ‘The Other Amenities’ come with breakfast or lunch, LOL![:I]
Tom [:P]