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Brian Norden

March 18, 2024 04:23PM

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I don't know about nowdays -- but once it was the common practice to sentcil the number of freight cars on the underframe and on truck bolsters. And maybe also to do so on passenger cars.

One reason for this was to retreave the number of a wooden car that had been made into kindling in a wreck.

BN

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