Hi Bryan,
Remember at St Paul, most of the GN mail train was transferred to the
Milwaukee Rd for forwarding to Chicago. The only mail on the Q would
be local mail out of St Paul and mail picked up enroute. The Milw
/GN routing was true for both directions.
Ted
At 08:39 PM 12/5/2017, you wrote:
>Group,
>
>Does anyone have any insight as to how the Chicago-Savannah-St. Paul
>RPO operated in the late 50s into the 60s? In some photos and
>consist lists of the westbound and eastbound Empire Builder, the
>Silver Post is shown as part of the consist. However, it appears
>that this was not an everyday occurrence. How was the mail handled
>then on days the RPO did not run on the Builder. Also, Thomas
>Strauss states in one of his GN books that the EB Seattle-St. Paul
>RPO started running through to Chicago in the early 60s, but I have
>not been able to find any photos or consists the support this.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Bryan J. Howell
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