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.

For those interested, price is $74.95. Alex Schneider Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android

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

I thought the attraction of the Signode doors was they were disposable? On 3/28/2022 1:45 PM, Guy Wilber via groups.io wrote: -- Tim O'Connor Sterling,

All- I imagine that Bruce Smith, our resident equine specialist, can give a more detailed account, but horses and mules were used in WWII more than most people realize and many were killed on both

The US Army still uses Mules. -Hudson

They also offer hog and mule sound effects. Was the Army still using mules during WW II? Alex Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Robert Stafford commented: “I worked BN (exCBQ) Agent/Operator positions in Western Nebraska and Colorado. These were all small-town agencies. The agents talked with their

Many years ago on this list...way back when Tim Gilbert was still around...I posted data from the late Don Daily (retired from the NKP/N&W/NS) that described shipments from the soy bean processing

OK, OK, the mooing stock car is over the top, but some “animatronics” can liven up an operating session, especially when you introduce something with no warning. My bad order cars/shifted

CB&Q 36' Livestock Car Kit An HO kit from Leadville Designs: https://leadvilledesigns.com/ Description from the manufacturer: “These cars were built by AC&F in the early 1920s for the CB&Q. With