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Re: Adding the SF Coaches...
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:20:23 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Chris Dee writes:
> At the moment I'm working on an RPO based on the image at this link. Does
> anyone know whether it would have had doors on both sides? I seem to recall
> that the British TPO (travelling post office) carriages were/are asymmetric.
> With all those windows on the visible side, it is hard to figure how they
> could have contained a sorting frame unless the other side was window-less.
Agreed. the interior is very likely asymmetric (I've seen plans of RPOs but
can't give a cite right now, they were in published in Model Railroader).
Notwithstanding that, there are certainly doors on both sides (in an area
that doesn't have the sorting frame, the car is long enough). US railroads
HATED the idea of a car that could only be run in one direction. Having a
door only on one side means that would be the case (since the door was used
to dump outgoing and hook incoming mail at speed, it had to be on a certain
side of the track in operation).
It was bad enough that the observation cars had an 'endedness'. The RPO
would be configured so it could operate in either direction when the train
was made up, as would every other car in the consist, if possible.
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| (...) Many thanks - I'll probably leave one side without windows, then. British TPOs used to have a mailbox on the side of the carriage for a late collection whilst waiting for departure from the terminus station. Was this the practice in the US (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) At the moment I'm working on an RPO based on the image at this link. Does anyone know whether it would have had doors on both sides? I seem to recall that the British TPO (travelling post office) carriages were/are asymmetric. With all those (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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