Re: [CBQ] RPO Days at Illinois Railway Museum this Saturday and Sunday

["Jim Goodin" <horse12761@msn.com>]

I attended last year and had a great time watching the "catches" with a CB&Q 
mail car and a "Q" locomotive.  I would highly recommend the trip if you can.

Jim Goodin
Blue Grass, IA

From: ttcollector1981 
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 8:13 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [CBQ] RPO Days at Illinois Railway Museum this Saturday and Sunday


  
Tomorrow and Sunday (June 11 and 12) the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, 
Illinios, is hosting RPO (Railway Post Office) Days. Former RPO Clerks will be 
at the Museum to "make another catch" of a mail pouch from a moving train. 
Until four years ago, each of these Clerks had not made a catch for forty years 
and more. While RPOs remained into the 1970s, most RPO runs ended in the late 
1960s. 

Two catches will be made on each run of the Coach Train using 97 year old CB&Q 
RPO/baggage 1923. Between runs, visit the RPO car to see where all the 
operations of the back room of your local post office were conducted in a 30 
foot compartment by four Clerks. Speak with former Clerks as they explain the 
work they performed - the best job they ever had.

Come out to IRM to see catches being made. While at the Museum, take rides on 
our mainline and our streetcar loop. Stroll through our yards and barns to see 
our passenger cars, diesels, interurbans, street cars, steam engines, and 
freight cars. 

Visit www.irm.org for more information.

Please excuse the cross posting of this announcement.
Jon Habegger





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