USA Railway Mail Service (RPO)

Dr. Frank Scheer gives a talk about the USA Railway Post Office System, which was the way the postal service moved mail by train until the late 1960s. This was a talk given as a free monthly public program of the National Railway Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Chapter, Inc. at our regular meeting on March 18, 2022 - on-line.

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The Rolling Post Office car which plunged off of Stillhouse Trestle, and into country music history, was heated and lighted by LP gas enabling operations in most environments, true to old post office office adage about delivery in all the elements.