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    Show us your vehicles

    I had my 1944 MB in a parade in Centralia, WA along with my living history group (we had a timeline of vehicles from about '42 to the 90s, sadly the guy with the 41 Ford GP had to leave before the parade). Mine is on the left. The extra gear in the passenger seat was from one of the guys riding...
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    Out Your Back Door

    I was going to load my 1944 MB onto a trailer to take it to a local airshow a couple of weeks ago, and I decided to drive it into the unmowed (I mowed it a few nights later) back 40 and take this shot with my cell. I like how it turned out: We have 1.5 acres, thin on one end but long on the...
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    French police nailed as collaborators after the liberation?

    I saw this excellent photo on the D-Day 75th thread posted here: https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/75th-anniversary-of-operation-overlord-d-day.96302/page-2#post-2556623 Great impressions! But it got me wondering, as the French police during the occupation surely had to sometimes enforce...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    More random shots at a few of my places on the layout. Night time at the Unaka factory, making barrels into the wee hours of the morning: Twilight down at Grindstaff’s store at Sadie, Tennessee. The old folks are going to have to break up their armchair general discussions of the war...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I call it being "A prisoner of the check," as it's very common to wait forever to get your check. They're not trying to upsell, you either, so I badly would like to know the business advantage to making people sit around waiting for the bill/
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    The chimney on the Buladeen Depot never looked right to me. I had placed it on the roof when it was separate from the building at the time, not realizing I'd placed it directly above a window on that wall until the roof went back on. That had always bugged me. So, I yanked the chimney out last...
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    Show us your vehicles

    I took my Jeep to a local airshow weekend before last. The second shot is in my backyard (now mowed) before I went to the show:
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    On a lazy summer's evening along Stoney Creek, the air raid warden ambles up, about to tell Mister Grindstaff to black out those lights, as you just never know when German bombers might show up to rearrange the farm land of Northeast Tennessee... Over at the Unaka Company barrel factory, the...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I was in CO state until yesterday, riding every train I could, including the Royal Gorge, the Cumbres & Toltec, the Silverton and even getting a 'cab' ride on a galloping goose at the CO RR museum! As for the layout, I fired it up an hour ago and ran a train down to Buladeen, TN and back. I...
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    Show us your vehicles

    I was comically slack over the winter with my '44 MB. Extreme stresses at work, a cough that lasted a couple of months, a bad winter, home improvement projects my wife demanded that never seemed to end, it all meant the Jeep went forlorn over the winter. Anyway, I checked all the fluids (topping...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    At the end of the day in the Stoney Creek valley area, on a lazy summer's evening in 1943:
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I was playing around with my cell phone camera last night, looking at the new lighting in the room...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I've been very stressed from work and a lot of home improvement we've done lately (had most of the interior repainted and the house re-roofed this past week), so I haven't gotten to the layout much. Still, last night, my wife and I added new lighting to the layout room, with a large LED and 4...
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    Sex, fear and looting: survivors disclose untold stories of the Blitz

    I once heard a vet explain the atomic bombs and firebombing of Germany and Japan with a story of a guy he grew up nearby. The local thugs took a disliking to his neighbor for some reason. One day, they tried to set fire to his house, and shot his beloved dog in the process. His wife and daughter...
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    Sex, fear and looting: survivors disclose untold stories of the Blitz

    This reminds me of how the histories of the US Civil War changed overnight once the final vet had passed away. Now that WW2 vets are everywhere you look, the truth of the horror of the war is finally coming out. Looters, deserters, cowards and profiteers. You could never mention them a few years...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    There were more than a few train fans ranging around the US with camera in tow, not to mention the government photographers going here and there taking photos during the war. Jack Delano from the OWI was a well-known example of this. He took great b/w and color photos of all kinds of stuff...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    Nope, he's a flatlander Yankee taking shots for some big time magazine up north...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    I did this video to show after a presentation next week, and thought others would want to see it:
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    Loungers' Pets

    This is our half dauchshund, half poodle (Doxie-Poo), Sweet Pea! She's 6 months old and we just got her spayed the other day. Poor pup, she's wearing an inflatable collar while she heals. We're training her right now and she is doing well. We just haven't gotten to the point where we can trust...
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    Your golden-era model railroads!

    This car model came from a model train show over the weekend (the only thing I bought there). It's a Rextoys 1935 Ford, which usually retails from $40-60 and I got it for only $11! The following day, I took it apart, removed all the window glass and cut out a spot where the driver window would...

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