Caught on Camera: Bastard A-5

While getting photos around the JO section of ZOO interlocking I noticed some interesting writing on the A-5 pneumatic point machine attached to the 131 switch.

In stenciling the signaling department appears to have labeled the point machine as a "bastard". Someone else, perhaps another employee, perhaps a local, has expanded upon this with "/whore". Given that the points appear to show evidence of a recent rebuild, it is possible that this A-5 has been assembled from the parts of others or contain a non-standard modification. I believe that A-5's have a notion of handedness that could be at play here. If whatever the modification was not entirely successful that could have resulted in the editorial comment.