Railway post office
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 Demo of the mail hook pulling a mail bag on Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad #1923 at the Illinois Railway Museum. |
In the United States a railway post office, commonly abbreviated as RPO, was a railroad car that was normally operated in passenger service as a means to sort mail en route, in order to speed delivery. The RPO was staffed by highly trained Railway Mail Service postal clerks, and was off-limits to the passengers on the train. In the UK, the equivalent term was Travelling Post Office (TPO).
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- Related: Boat Railway Post Office, Catcher pouch, mail bag, Mail hook, mail pouch, mail sack, Owney (dog), Railway mail service library, SNCF TGV La Poste, Travelling Post Office
| Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42 Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42 www.csrmf.org/doc.asp?ID=186 - Web |
| Mobile Post Office Society Mobile Post Office Society www.eskimo.com/~rkunz/mposhome.html - Web |
| TPO and Seapost Society TPO and Seapost Society www.tpo-seapost.org.uk - Web |
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- Railway Post Office TR51 1941 CDS.jpg
- Railway Post Office Diagram USPOD 1949.jpg
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