#mail train

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Santa Fe's eastbound Mail Train 4 behind four Alco PA’s pauses at Wichita, Kansas before rushing onward to Kansas City. November 07, 1965

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MAIL TRAIN

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PRR train #13, an overnight mail train that ran to Pittsburgh from New York. Altoona, PA September 10, 1951

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Santa Fe’s famous warbonnet perhaps looked best on an Alco PA, as Mail Train 4 arrived Kansas City Union Station with PA 74, Oct. 30, 1966. An ATS (Automatic Train Stop) shoe is on the 3rd axle which enabled operating at 90-mph speed on the AT&SF.

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Mail Traveling in Style by Joe McMillan Via Flickr: Westbound Santa Fe Train No. 3 eases by a B&B Gang working on a bridge over Spruce Street in Olathe, Kansas, July 16, 1964. Train No. 3 was a Kansas City To Gallup, New Mexico, mail train. At Gallup, the train would be combined with Train No. 7, the FAST MAIL EXPRESS.

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This westbound mail train #201 is stopped at the station in South Bend, IN on April 17, 1963.

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Loading mail at St. Louis Inside the trainshed at St. Louis Union Station, postal workers load mail into Railway Post Office cars on Missouri Pacific train 9 in April 1958. This train made an overnight run to Kansas City and handled a lot of mail and express business. A tunnel connected the Post Office and the station, and pneumatic hoists were used as elevators between the tunnel and the platforms.

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SP train, engine number 4359, engine type 4-8-2 Train #9, Mail train; 12 cars, 65 MPH. Photographed: near Beowawe, Nev., August 5, 1935.