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Author: Jim Daniels
Date: 03-18-2011 - 04:41

Alcos & Apostrophes, but no Ampersand Wrote:
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> Tony J. Wrote:
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> The apostrophe is used as follows:

“The Alcos’ smoke was visible for a mile”

By the use of the apostrophe here you are implying more than one Alco in the consist?

A better example, and one that confuses only me, I am sure, is the use of the apostrophe in "its" vs. "it's". The possessive or the contraction, which one gets the '?

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