Re: [CBQ] Question

[BRIAN PAUL EHNI <behni@comcast.net>]

Mule deer certainly do have antlers (well, the bucks, anyway). They are distinguished from the white tail variety by their larger, mule-like ears.

Thanks!
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Brian Ehni

From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
Reply-To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013 1:18 PM
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Question

 

John-

I think you got it…..the only reference to “Mulely” on the internet that made sense was a name applied to a Holstein cow with no horns.   Mule Deer are also so nicknamed and I don’t know if they have antlers or not (being a city boy!).

Charlie Vlk

 

 

I think it was a carry over (most of the railroaders back then had been raised on a farm) of the term used to discribe cows with no horns.

--- On Fri, 1/25/13, HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com> wrote:

From: HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Question
To: "CB&Q Group" <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 9:07 AM

 

Here's a question that hopefully someone out there (John Mitchell?) can answer:  Early in the 20th century, both side door cabooses (not just Q waycars) and baggage cars without end platforms were said to have "muley ends."  Why??
 
Hol

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