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OldEastRR

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Looking for photo of GN RPO-Bag/mail in BSB -- side shot
« on: February 24, 2015, 04:43:21 AM »
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Looked all over for this, including in several GN picture books, no luck.
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Re: Looking for photo of GN RPO-Bag/mail in BSB -- side shot
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2015, 06:31:06 PM »
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What is the date of the BSB scheme compared to the cancellation of post office contract?
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Re: Looking for photo of GN RPO-Bag/mail in BSB -- side shot
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2015, 02:24:34 AM »
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Big Sky Blue was introduced in May 1967, but I don't know when the mail contracts were lost.

Looking at the Passenger Car Photo Index http://passcarphotos.info/ it seems that most of these cars stayed in EB paint through the merger, so there may never have been a BSB RPO on the GN. 
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Re: Looking for photo of GN RPO-Bag/mail in BSB -- side shot
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2015, 02:34:21 AM »
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I think 1969 was when the mail contracts were dropped from trains.
Hmm, maybe there WASN'T any RPOs in BSB. My friend has one made by ConCor (BSB) but that could be a foobie. I wanted to add decals to it for the RPO sign, etc. He also has a slug of ConCor painted BSB cars with the logos at the right hand end of each car - exactly opposite to what the prototype was. Luckily the printing comes off easily and I will put MS decals in the right location. Plus add car numbers and names.
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Re: Looking for photo of GN RPO-Bag/mail in BSB -- side shot
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2015, 04:21:35 AM »
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Sorry to be late to the party but....yes; there was an RPO in BSB........get ready to squint..........



This was taken in 1967.... that is an RPO Express car....... I modelled one similar... and for the life of me can't find the proto photo........



The GN put some pretty odd stuff in BSB; kinda "as needed" including some heavyweight baggage express messenger cars - see the Monring Sun book for the proto photo.. I  modelled this one;



I'll keep trying to find a better RPO shot for you...
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Re: Looking for photo of GN RPO-Bag/mail in BSB -- side shot
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2015, 05:39:57 AM »
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Thanks for the confirmation of BSB RPOs ... all I really need now is where on the side of the car they had "United States Railway Post Office".
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Re: Looking for photo of GN RPO-Bag/mail in BSB -- side shot
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2015, 01:32:48 AM »
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BSB heavyweight baggage cars seem to have been fairly common, and some made it to Pasco, both on the Portland section of the Empire Builder and , after Amtrak, in company service, although they were fairly quickly repainted in MOW brown.

Do you know what number that RPO is?  There were a few I didn't find post-merger pictures of.
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