I picked up this post card years ago. It is an advertisement for "Mailomat", an automated means of mailing letters created back in the 1940's. We could use a modern automated version of this now to replace simplistic mailing functions at the post office.
It notes that it helps to catch earlier planes and "trains" A remnant of the old Railway Postal Service "RPO" era. The last RPO run was between Washington DC and New York in 1977. Some time ago I collected RPO marked postcards. I also worked years ago with a guy who used to work on an RPO car. He had some interesting stories, but it was hard work.
I have one RPO mail-catcher on my layout at a small station.
Another interesting photo is this early reinforced concrete gondola car built around 1919.
The concept was to save on the cost of steel during the war years (WW-1). While I guess they worked OK, I suspect the weight and the poor results in wrecks caused their demise. I also guess they were difficult to repair properly.
I have essentially completed the platform scale company, and I am working on platform scales for the loading docks. I will post some photos of that later this week. Meanwhile I am thinking about what to build next - always a challenge.
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