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which they worked. The general arrangements of 15, 30, 45 and 60-foot Postal Apartments remained a con- stant up till the time that RPO service ceased in the 1960’s. During the steamlined era the mail


moved in the Railway Post Office (RPO) cars and in selected railroad baggage cars which were designated as “Mail Storage Cars.” These cars traveled un- der the supervision of U.S. Post Office Railway Postal Service employees and were not accessible by regular Railroad Employees or passengers. Walthers has introduced two new


PRR MB70m RPO car; Santa Fe 89 Class RPO car; Santa Fe 3500 and 3540 baggage car: HO scale Wm. K Walthers, Inc., 5601 W.


Florist Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53201- 3039; www.Walthers.com. Railroads in the United States are


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said to have hauled the mail in one manner or another starting in 1831 on the South Carolina Railroad. This ear- ly transportation of the mails evolved into the Railway Postal Service and the well documented process of collect- ing, sorting and distributing en route on America’s passenger trains. In 1885, in order to standardize the work- ing conditions for the Railway Postal Service workers, design specifications were issued which brought about rela- tive consistency in the equipment with


RPO cars in conjunction with their Broadway Limited and El Capitan passenger train consists and a stan- dard baggage car from the El Capitan. These cars are pre-assembled and each is provided with interior appoint- ments. The RPO cars represent a stan- dard 60-foot Postal Apartment, but the similarities between these two cars stops here, as each is otherwise unique to its owner railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad’s Broad-


way Limited passenger train of the 1950’s featured all first class accommo- dations in new streamlined cars, but PRR chose to remodel existing RPO cars from 1907-1914 instead of purchas- ing new ones. As a result, the Pennsy rebuilt 46 Class BM70 RPO’s, resulting in the new Class BM70m baggage- RPO’s. One of the most notable changes to these cars was the replacement of the clerestory roof with a much more mod- ern looking arched roof. In contrast, the ten Santa Fe 89 Class RPO’s, delivered some 40 years


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