I've been bitten by the Front Range 40' DD box car bug...Cna someone tell me about this car? What year was it built and what roof would it have? Thanks, Clark

Very nice Charlie! George Toman

Elden, It wasn’t just horses and mules, but also cattle that were shipped (and make excellent rail shipments for modelers of immediate post WWII US railroads). With respect to “wild

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Missouri was the largest provider, and thus shipper, of mules in the US up through WWI, and still provided mules to the Army in WWII. And as Bruce says, they were shipped in standard stockcars.

Also widely used in Burma, New Guinea, etc. The horses I mentioned were “replacements” for huge losses in France, Poland, Germany, etc., due to losses from artillery, and starving civilians.

Philip; I remember that well from growing up in W PA. There were many instances of incompletely-quenched coke going out in dump trucks, hoppers and gondolas. That was why there were so many

Very nice build and excellent board weathering. I especially like the truck and wheel weathering. Well done. Nelson Moyer

They say a photo is worth a thousand words. Army Mules for Italy in 1944. Doug Harding https://www.facebook.com/douglas.harding.3156/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK8X8Yb8NEAZqbZjHT5z0sA

Bruce- Thanks for the excellent input!! Charlie Vlk

Fantastic look there Charlie. I like the color variation on the boards, subtle. Can I ask - what decal setting solution did you use? Steve

Nice job, Charlie! Wash was very effective in bringing out detail. Elden Gatwood

Here’s the Westerfield CB&Q XM-18 I’ve just finished. Build was going good but some the decals started breaking up and had to be pieced together. Next I’ll spray with Testors Decal coating.

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I used to live in a coal mining area with a lot of coking plants and often the family car would be stuck behind a truck stacked high with coke that had just come out of the coke oven and been doused

Somebody asked, “whose gon was it? (the “abandoned” one). It wasn’t exactly abandoned, just no one knew whose it was. I crawled all over it, and IIRC, there were faint remains of

With respect to horses and mules and the US Army. In 1939-1940, the Army was bitterly debating whether mounted cavalry remained superior to tracked light tanks for scouting. The 1940-41 maneuvers

At Wishram, WA on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. the location had limited housing and the railway would lease property to employees to erect housing. Most of these houses were built with whatever

Yes, they were, and we shipped huge numbers of both to devastated portions of Europe and Asia due to the numbers of casualties in animals. My stepfather accompanied and wrangled shipments of

The peak of shipping horses in stock cars was the WWI timeframe as horses were war machines as well as power for fire bragades, milk delivery, police, and general commerce. As cars and trucks