Greg,
Bulk mail continued to move in trailers or the NYC's
Flexivan containers. It still does so today. The shift
was already taking place when the passenger train
contracts were cancelled. There was even some bulk
mail moved in refrigerator cars or in trailers in regular
freight service with no particular priority, mostly
magazines or catalogs.
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Myers" <myers.gregory@w...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 27 August, 2002 18:51
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Passenger Train Info Request
> The Operating Data Sheets for October 1, 1969 - reprinted by the BRHS in
> 1998 - show several trains, east (eg. #60 & #64) and west (eg. #63 & #165)
> bound with US mail as a #1 priority. Anyone know when the mail was
switched
> from passenger to freight trains - how much was there and how long it
> lasted?
>
> Greg Myers
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marshall Thayer" <zephyr9903@e...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Passenger Train Info Request
>
>
> >
> > Another question -- Holck mentioned something about mail contract
expiring
> > or being cancelled sometime in 1967 in a photo caption of some train.
Was
> > he referring to something specific on the captioned run, or did the
ENTIRE
> > Burlington system stop hauling mail at that time?
> >
> >
> > IIRC, it was the whole shootin' match - all RRs nationwide. I recall
that
> had a lot to do with the formation of Amtrak.
> >
> > Marshall Thayer
> >
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