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In this photo, what does 'LBLMY signify? Seeing it directly under the capacity, and 5000 pounds lower, I'm guessing it's a "limited capacity" of some sort. But I can't come up with anything that would abbreviate to 'LBLMY.

The only things I've found while searching for "lblmy" look like OCR errors.

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  • Where did this photo come from? I ask because there are a bunch of similar examples available online. Some have slightly different letters that make more sense. Some are also from model trains. – hazzey May 17 '19 at 13:15
  • @hazzey It's a photo of a static display in the cafeteria in the Union Pacific headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. It looks like it is actual panels from a retired car, but maybe it was just faked up to look like that. In which case, perhaps the artist or painter deviated from the original when creating this display. – Doug Deden May 17 '19 at 14:26
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    This http://speedwitchmedia.com/product/d161-pacific-fruit-express-r-30-9-with-1948-black-white-sp-medallionup-shield/ is apparently the same design but has "LDLMT" (which presumably means "load limit". – alephzero May 17 '19 at 16:10
  • @alephzero Aha! Nice find. So it seems likely that the reproduction was from a poor quality photo, and *LD.LMT. got interpreted, either by a human or by OCR, as 'LBLMY. If you'll write it up as an answer, I'll upvote and accept. – Doug Deden May 17 '19 at 18:10
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    Odds are based on the diagonal pseudo rivets, it's an artist representation. Most train cars have two abbreviations LD LMT - Load Limit (Loaded) and LT WT - Light Weight (Unloaded). T sort of looks like a Y. – StainlessSteelRat May 17 '19 at 18:25

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