Post by train

[Hans Reints]

Ja Thee en Thee dat waren nog eens tijden.

Not too many years ago, Santa's busiest elves rode the rails during the holiday season!

From October until Christmas, the nation's railroads saw their mail and express business double or triple. It began as mail order firms sent tens of thousands of catalogs to shoppers all over the country. This produced a huge volume of orders moving by mail, and outbound packages traveling parcel post or Railway Express. Closer to Christmas, an avalanche of cards had to be handled along with the usual bills, letters, and magazines moving by train.

Every car that could be used was pressed into service, including Railway Post Offices (RPOs) of every size, storage mail cars, baggage and express cars, as well as express reefers and boxcars. Major trains might carry two or three cars of mail each trip. Solid trains of mail often ran as second sections of the hottest passenger trains. And less important trains often carried an RPO to keep mail moving in rural areas.

[Ruud K]

Om dit uit te beelden kun je een leuk stelletje postwagens achter elkaar hangen. Bij die Amerikanen is het altijd al consumeren geweest tot het niet meer gaat (en dan schieten de Chinezen wel te hulp met immense kredieten ).

Groet,
Ruud

[stig]

De vorig jaar overleden Edward M. DeRouin heeft er een prachtig boek over geschreven.

http://www.amazon.com/Moving-Mail-Express-Edward-Derouin/dp/0972874321

[Beached]

in de auguustus en september 2007 editie van de Model Railroader staat serie artikelen over "Head end equipment and operations" waaronder baggage, mail and express(snelgoederen) vallen.
Bij interesse kan ik de artikelen scannen en per pb opsturen.
mvg
Rick