Mi-Loco 0 Gauge

The Miniature Locomotive Company

(Lee B Green, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

Lee B Green launched the short lived enterprise Mi-Loco (The Miniature Locomotive Company) during the early-mid 1930s, building a range of 17/64th scale 0 railroad products. Mr Green contracted with auto parts casting company Congress Tool and Die of Detroit to produce two models, a New York Central Hudson and Pennsylvania RR K5, neither of which recouped their cost of investment, due to competition from Scale Craft and Lionel. Mr Green's business was absorbed by Congress Tool and Die, the largest creditor, in April 1937 and relaunched by them as Min-I-Scale. Congress Tool and Die found the business equally unprofitable and terminated model railroad production by the end of 1938.

The Miniature Locomotive Co advertisement, Model Maker magazine, 1935
Information and image credit The OGR forum

Mi-Loco 17/64 scale New York Hudson 4-6-4 locomotive and tender, c1937/38
Believed built by The Congress Tool and Die Co Detroit MI

Mi-Loco 17/64 scale PRR K-5 4-6-2 pacific locomotive and tender, c1935
Built for outside 3rd rail operation

Mi-Loco 17/64 scale Hudson tender and frame in cast aluminium, by Lee B Green, 1934

Mi-Loco 17/64 scale Hudson tender and frame in cast aluminium, by Lee B Green, 1934
Tender frame casting reads J-1-530 Mi-Loco

Mi-Loco 17/64 scale K-5 Pacific tender shell in cast aluminium, by Lee B Green, 1934

Have taken the liberty of reproducing part of the information included in an eBay sale from 2008, for a Mi-Loco Humble Petroleum Products tanker, running on Carl Auel sprung Bettendorf trucks.