Modeling RPO Mail Service on US Railroads

[harryadkins]

Check out these three articles on how US railroads handled the mail:

http://www.archives.gov/publications/pr ... ail-1.html

http://www.archives.gov/publications/pr ... ail-2.html

http://www.archives.gov/publications/pr ... -side.html

[BillS]

Thanks for sharing those articles.

My Grandfather was a "Mail Agent" (armed guard) on the NYC. Many of the mail-sorting cars carried an armed guard due to some of the mail having a financial nature.

[Toripony]

Mail was delivered by train along the Greenbrier Subdivision in WV until (IIRC) 1959.