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Sorting the mail

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A Kansas City Terminal SW1200 moves the mail and express cars from the incoming passenger trains to the mail docks. This traffic kept private railroad passenger service going in the 1960's. When mail moved to airplanes and trucks the end was rapid.
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Ironically enough, AmTrak now carries some of the transcon mail today, but I'm thinking that a lot of the old mail cars are now used as baggage cars...