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Re: [BRHSlist] Forwarded Posts re: Psgr Train Operations

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Forwarded Posts re: Psgr Train Operations
From: SilvrDome@a...
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 10:08:34 EST
Wes,

I used to handle mail sacks at Kansas City Union Station. After receiving 
mail from the Post Office, loading a mail storage car was hard work of 
course. Several men forming a chain. The lead man grabbing the mail off a 
baggage wagon and passing the the sacks to the next, and so on while the end 
man built the stack to a mark on the wall almost to the ceiling of the car. 
Magazine sacks were dreaded because they were heavy. It would seem to me that 
sidings next to printing plants were for raw paper cars. Usually large rolls 
in boxcars.

To get magazines into the Postal system, they had to pass through the post 
office first. Ofcourse maybe it worked differently in some other part of the 
country.

Hubert


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