In 1997, the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Minnegazette contained a
lengthy, well-researched article on RPO service in Minnesota.
Eric
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Bryan Howell wrote:
>
> Lists,
>
> I received the following request and am forwarding it along to the list to
> see if we can assist Mr. Thompson. Please remember to include Mr. Thompson
> in your response.
>
>
> Bryan J. Howell
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Howell,
>
> As a member of the Board of Directors of the
> Burlington Route Historical Society I was wondering if you could direct
> me to someone in the society who would be knowledgeable about Burlington
> RPO service in Minnesota...and secondly, would have information on
> Burlington RR Train 29...The Fast Mail...between Chicago and Omaha.
>
> I am a free lance writer and son of a Railway Post Office Foreman/Clerk
> in Charge (my dad ran out of the Twin Ports of Duluth/Superior on the
> Great Northern RR Gopher and Badger trains that ran between Duluth and St.
> Paul on the Duluth & St. Paul RPO in the late 1950's -early 60's and the
> Burlington RR between Minneapolis and Chicago on the Chicago, Savannah &
> Minneapolis RPO). I wrote several articles in Classic Trains Magazine Fall
> 2006 issue that featured the Railway Mail Service (see:
> http://ctr.trains.com/en/sitecore/content/Magazine%20Issues/2006/Fall%202006.aspx
> ).
>
> I am presently writing an article for the 150th Anniversary of RPO in 2014
> for the Minnesota Historical Society's Minnesota History Magazine on The
> History of the RPO in Minnesota. Minnesota was a critical hub for the
> Railway Mail Service for RPO mail service to the Pacific Northwest for mail
> routed in this direction through Chicago from the east coast. I hope to
> tell this story to underline how, in a partnership between railroads and the
> US Postal Service using RPO's, they connected Americans in
> many ways and became America's first information highway, long before we had
> phones and the Internet.
>
> Any information or assistance in
> telling this story to include the role of the Burlington Railroad in
> Railway Post Office service in Minnesota would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David A. Thompson
> dathomps68@...
>
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