Thanks for your invariably enjoyable articles, Rob. While you enjoy kudos, I need to put in a plug for The Mobile Post Office Society (of which I happen to be President.) The Society is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that has published the catalogs and reference works for RPO, Route Agent, Railroad and Highway Post Office postmarks as well as much other material related to enroute distribution of mail in the USA. The MPOS web page is at https://tinyurl.com/mobileposociety.
You hit a subject close to my heart this Sunday Rob! I grew up in a railroad family, at the edge of a small town where the old B&O Shawneetown line crossed the Wabash mainline between St. Louis and Chicago. The Chicago & Illinois Midland, where my dad worked, connected with the Wabash out by our city park. Spent a lot of time on some of the great and famous Wabash passenger trains on journeys to visit relatives in the summers.
I need to save this one and go back through all of the wonderful links! (I wonder if Mr. ZIP and Reddy Kilowatt hung out in their time off.)
Thanks for your invariably enjoyable articles, Rob. While you enjoy kudos, I need to put in a plug for The Mobile Post Office Society (of which I happen to be President.) The Society is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that has published the catalogs and reference works for RPO, Route Agent, Railroad and Highway Post Office postmarks as well as much other material related to enroute distribution of mail in the USA. The MPOS web page is at https://tinyurl.com/mobileposociety.
Love these Rob.. I eagerly await Sunday! Thx
You hit a subject close to my heart this Sunday Rob! I grew up in a railroad family, at the edge of a small town where the old B&O Shawneetown line crossed the Wabash mainline between St. Louis and Chicago. The Chicago & Illinois Midland, where my dad worked, connected with the Wabash out by our city park. Spent a lot of time on some of the great and famous Wabash passenger trains on journeys to visit relatives in the summers.
I need to save this one and go back through all of the wonderful links! (I wonder if Mr. ZIP and Reddy Kilowatt hung out in their time off.)