You are entirely right, Tim, he DID say "inverse." But the reason I objected, and continue to object, is that people readily confuse inverse and reverse. In many situations, "inverse" means "turned upside down," top to bottom, which is not what we mean with freight car ends. We can understand "reverse" as rotated 180 degrees, and that is how I would describe an end, whether corrugated or Dreadnaught, which has its major  corrugations inward to the car instead of outward. "Inverse" could be taken to mean the same thing, thus the risk of confusion. 

         My own usage is to call the ends with outward-facing corrugations, but set inward to the plane of the end, "recessed" or "inset." This avoids the confusion between reverse and inverse. I try not to use "inverse" at all for car ends.

         But as Tim wisely says, YMMV.

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