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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Explanation of markings on freight cars sought
Message-ID: <704@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 15:19:05 EST
Article-I.D.: ihuxq.704
Posted: Thu Feb 23 15:19:05 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 02:23:41 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Some freight cars, almost always tank cars but almost never
box cars, have four letters of the alphabet prominently
stencilled on them.  The 4th letter is always "X".  The 4
characters appear to be highly correlated with the company
that owns the car, that is, cars from the same road usually
bear the same "name", but it never seems to be any kind of
acronym that a human would think of.  Does anyone know what
these call signs(?) are, or how they came to be?

advTHANXance

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