| This 60’
RPO heavyweight passenger car is painted the Southern Pacific’s
Olive Green with a black roof. The Southern Pacific herald is
stenciled across the top in gold, as well as the road number RailWay
Post Office across the bottom. It was built in 1914 by Pullman
Standard and runs on six-wheel RPO passenger tracks. This car
was one of the first ordered by the SP after the breakup of the
Associated (Harriman) Lines. It had electric lights, battery box
and truck-mounted generators. Mail sorting on trains, in dedicated
post office cars, was an established procedure by the time the
transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. |
