[CBQ] Record Mail Train

["John" <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

>From Trains Magazine Nov. 1944:
"82-Mail Train
Probably the longest individual mail train in history was run from Chicago to 
Council Bluffs Transfer on the night of October 17 by the Burlington Route. It 
consisted of 82 mail and refrigerator cars, loaded with Christmas packages for 
servicemen overseas and handled on passenger-train schedule by a 4-8-4 steam 
locomotive as far as Galesburg and then by a 2-10-4. The refrigerator cars were 
used because many of them are moving westward empty at this season.

This and the then-record 70 car train October 13 were part of the largest mail 
movement the Q has handled in all the 60 years it has been moving the 
transcontinental mails between Chicago and Council Bluffs Transfer. More then 
1200 cars were handled beween September 21 and october 17, and the largest 
day's movement was 103 cars on October 15."



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