Thanks for the input
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From: "Jon Makar jon.makar@xxxxxxxxxxxx [cpsig]" <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: Ye Olde Time Train Operations
I had a discussion about the car in the photo with members of the Early Rails
group. While pay cars and hunting cars came up, details of the photo and the
one below on the page, showing the car on different passenger trains, suggest
that it was instead a combined baggage/railway post office car. The walkway
allowed communication between the passenger cars through the baggage section
and the engine without the conductor entering the mail area.
I've been told John H. White's History of American Passenger Cars shows other
cars of this type. It looks like it would be an interesting model.
Jon Makar
"PBBowers 4everwaiting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [cpsig]" <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At 04:39 PM 09/11/2014, you wrote:
I have seen plans for a paycar
published in the Railroad Model Craftsman many years ago which had a
gangway along the side much like this. Might be sometime in the
mid-fiftes of the last century. Posted by: randellrl@xxxxxxxxx
I checked out the photo________________________________
