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Don't know about the LIRR connection, but <br /> <br />"The earliest pre-World War I woodies were truck-based rigs called "depot hacks." Much like today's airport courtesy vans, depot hacks shuttled people to and from the train station (now you know the origin of the term "station wagon"). Depot hack operators needed capacity for six or eight people plus their luggage, and it was too expensive for carmakers to tool up steel bodies for such a boutique use; so small coachwork companies filled the need-and built them of wood."
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