Both of these routes operated over Chicago & Northwestern Railway lines. By the 1880s, the Green Bay and Milwaukee route was renamed the Ishpeming and Chicago RPO. "Plymouth So." refers to the mail ...

Crews at the National Railroad Museum move the newly restored Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railway Post Office Car into the Lenfestey Center to be on display, February 23, 2024. (WLUK) ...

It was torn down in 1973 for Expo ’74. The last run by a Railway Post Office car ended in Washington, D.C in 1977.

In this Associated Press photo, Timothy Kimbrough stacks up bags of mail in the last run of a railway post office car on June 30, 1977. The trip from New York City to Washington, D.C., marked the ...

RPO: The Romance of Rail and Mail shows that before there was Amazon Prime or even UPS, the Railway Post Office delivered the mail across 19th and 20th century America with speed, dependability ...

A railway post office clerk's time off duty was not entirely his own. Clerks had to use time off to cut their own labels for mail sacks from printed strips. The No. 29 was one of Gerald Lange's ...

Late in the evening of June 12, 1924 – also the day former president George H.W. Bush was born – two bandits climbed into the engine tender of a railway post office train, forcing the engineer ...

After finding his way into the post office in Albany, N.Y., in 1888, Owney was adopted by the Railway Post Office clerks and became the service’s mascot, according to the museum.