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Re: Adding the SF Coaches...
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:42:02 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Chris Dee writes:
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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 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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 also, becuase it would not be too difficult to add
that feature (albeit somewhat out-of-scale).
Chris
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| (...) Leave a FEW, just blank out the part of the wall that has the sorting section.... (...) I'm not sure. I can't remember off hand. But since there is a US prototype for EVERYTHING, I think it's very possible that some had this (or else you could (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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