Directory of selected cover photographs from backissues of the RPO (Railway Post Office), the official quarterly model railroading publication of the Gateway Division NMRA.
Railway Post Office clerk.
Uncoupling lever
Also called a cut lever. The device which raises the locking pin in a coupler to allow the knuckle to open for uncoupling.
Railway Post Office cars were occasionally interlined with other railroads but they usually stayed on the owner's rails.
Railway Post Office; a car for the en route sorting of mail (last used in the U.S. in 1977).
RRE
Railroad Enthusiasts, Inc.
Railway Post Office - RPO: a rolling post office, armored, where mail is picked up and sorted. Because of train robberies, RPO crews were armed. The post office stopped using RPOs In the 1970s.
Railway post office
Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
Railway Procurement Agency
Railway Protection Force
Railway Reserve Heritage Trail, Western Australia
Railway Rivals
Railway Settlement Roza
Railway signal
Railway signalling ...
Railway Post Office car. Once a common addition to passenger trains.
Runaround ...
RPO
Railway Post Office car. Once a common addition to passenger trains.
TERMINAL"Railway Post Office unit, usually at or near the railroad station, where mail is removed from sacks, sorted, and forwarded to its ultimate destination ...
railway post office (RPO) — a car built by the railroad to standard postal designs and leased to the United States Post Office in which one or more postal clerks picked up, ...
Head End Cars - Normally attached to the front of a passenger train, baggage, mail, railway post office, and express refrigerator cars are examples of head end cars.
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 See also: Track, Train, Locomotive, Signal, Car
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