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Re: Adding the SF Coaches...
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Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:45:40 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Chris Dee writes:
> 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.
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> Many thanks - I'll probably leave one side without windows, then.
Leave a FEW, just blank out the part of the wall that has the sorting
section....
> 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).
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 just hand your mail to a porter who would take care of it for you if
you tipped him)
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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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