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Mail by Rail

A Boston-bound train unloads and loads bulk mail at New London. By this time any mail sorted en-route was pretty much confined to the Railway Post Office cars on solid mail and express trains. In the New Haven era many individual trains carried RPOs.

Photographed by Ron DeFilippo, 1970.
Added to the photo archive by Ron DeFilippo, June 16, 2026.
Railroad: Penn Central.

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Thanks for these old photos. I'm really enjoying them.

Posted by Ron Mura on 2026-06-18 08:41:00


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