Train Numbers and Mail

["ed_de_rouin" <PIXELS@A...>]

Listers:

Mike gave the correct date for passenger train renumbering, but 
the renumbering was systen wide. On 10-27-68 when Morning 
Zephyr 21 became 7, the CD became 63, and local train were 
numbered based upon Division.


About a year earlier, in September (I do not have the exact date 
handy) 1967, the U. S. Post Office terminated RPO contracts on 
all railroads. Much mail was transferred to freight trains and that 
was the kiss of death for the privately operated passenger train.

Ed DeRouin