Front:
Centennial Of The First Railway Mail Car 1862-1962
Engine 35 ... vintage of 1882 ..
typical of the American-type loco-
motive so popular during the first
fifty years of railroad development
in this country.
Mail Car of the Hannibal & St. Joseph
Railroad is a replica of the one in which,
on July 28, 1862, between West Quincy
and St. Joseph, Mo.–now part of the
Burlington system–U.S. Mail was first
sorted in transit, This innovation, from
which grew the present Railway Mail
Service, was prompted by the need to
speed mail westward from St. Joseph via
overland stage coach.
Back:
Burlington
Route
courtesy of the Burlington Railroad
KEEPSAKE PRESS
3737 W. ARMITAGE AVE
CHICAGO 47, ILLINOIS
