Front:
WA HANNIBAL. &
ST.JOSEPII R.R.
US
MAIL
SEVENTY YEARS OF PROGRESS
IN THE RAILWAY POST OFFICE
In a little car like this, on July 28, 1862, enroute from West
Quincy to St. Joseph, Missouri, over what is now a part of the
Burlington main line from Chicago to Kansas City and St. Joseph,
United States Mail was first sorted while in transit. The purpose
was to speed the departure of the overland stage coach from
St. Joseph to California.
At the right is the modern standard Railway Post Office, in
several of which the California and other western mail is now
sorted nightly on the Burlington fast mail trains between Chicago
and Omaha.
The old and the new mail cars form a part of the Burlington's exhibit at
A Century of Progress Exposition in 1934
Back:
This card furnished for mailing in the Postal Car
on the Burlington's World's Fair Exhibition Train.
Route
Burlington
