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J.B.Bane

June 26, 2012 10:09PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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What was the purpose of the hole in the top? Possibilities that occur to me would be that is was retained to the car with a short light chain, preventing it from getting dropped or lost when the car was not coupled, or was it used like a pin on a Janey coupler to be lifted by a cut lever?

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