For further information the railroad part of the Post Office used to be the Railway Mail Service. I have a Xerox of a 1916 letter from the Railway Mail Service to the Colorado and Southern regarding
The name of the Railway Mail Service was changed to the Postal Transportation Service after so many RPO trains were eliminated and replaced with "Highway Post Offices" (basically the same as RPOs but
I was familiar with Burlington IA during the late forties and fifties, and almost every day, one would see a silver modernized turtle-roofed RI RPO sitting on the siding next to Grier's Restaurant (i
Ed, Thanks for the informative and fascinating information and consists. Well done! You certainly make operations easier to understand. I might add, it wasn't boring! Hubert [Non-text portions of thi
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Ed DeRouin wrote, in a very interesting post about mail transportation by rail: A nitpick: it was the Post Office Department (USPOD) until 1970. The mail business was reorganized
Wes, I used to handle mail sacks at Kansas City Union Station. After receiving mail from the Post Office, loading a mail storage car was hard work of course. Several men forming a chain. The lead man
Wes and Hubert: Thanks for that detail and the feed back. The RPO route was St. Louis to St. Paul. A single car operated in its entirety. Both roads contributed RPOs to the train. In Chicago, moving
Greetings all: Previously posted in re mail/express movements and war-surplus troop kitchen cars: "The cars were assigned based upon the contract. Was a jeep, that's Q term for the former troop kitch
Does anyone know what was published at Kable Printing? I know it was the source of loads for many of the 50' ex-troop kitchen cars and possibly one of the primary reasons the "Q" cars showed offline
Kable Printing during those years as well as now, was heavy into catalog work for such customers as Aldens mail order which is now long gone. The mail was loaded directly into the cars from the finis
Mount Morris, Ill., was of course well-known in publishing circles. There were several other companies around the company which published the mass-market magazines, who circulations numbered in the m