> "Mail Storage" meant mail that was shipped from one location to another
> without being "worked" en-route. The opposite of the RPO car where mail is
> sorted, picked-up and dropped off en-route. Many "baggage cars" were also
> used in "mail storage" service on passenger trains.
> Pieter E. Roos
Gents...
Taking this RPO/storage/baggage topic a bit further.......One common question
is: "Where in the train should the RPO be positioned -- ahead of the baggage
cars or behind the baggage cars?"
The answer, I believe, depends on whether the RPO is a "working" car or merely
a "storage/transport" car. If the RPO has men inside actively sorting the
mail, it is then a working car and belongs ahead of the baggage car(s) closer
to the engine. If the RPO does not have any sorting activity taking place
inside, then it is a storage/transport car and can be (should be?) behind the
baggage cars closer to the passenger cars. Or, it might be the vice versa.
The details escape me, but the general idea is firmly entrenched in a mushy
brain.
Cheers....Ed L.
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