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From: "Paul R DOT Tupaczewski" paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:16:26 -0400
Subject: RE: (erielack) The hyphen
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> Well, the poor horse is still (barely) alive, so I will beat it a bit more...
>
> Paul- correct me if I am wrong, but while the hyphen was applied to locomotives, cabooses, and passenger cars, I think it is interesting
> that it was never part of the standard freight car lettering scheme. I think even the earliest publicity photos of the gray EL boxcars
> show them to be hyphen-less. Isn’t that correct?

You're correct on the boxcars (and covered hoppers as well), but I have photos of at least two gons that received a hyphen. I've attached an Emil Walerko shot from Ron Dukarm's collection as an example.

- Paul



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