Re: RPO’s and REA cars on Bristol line

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AFAIK all the passenger trains originating at Bristol had working TPO and
express cars.  This includes the Southern locals, the N&W local and the
Abingdon branch.
Seeing N&W 9 and 10  with an RPO and five or six express cars I always
wondered if those express cars had any load at all.
It doesn't seem likely that the'd be hauling empty equipment around . . .

$r alomy

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 6:30 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> The RPO's on the Tennessean ran through (Southern cars). I don't know
> about the other trains.
>
> Jim Nichols
>
> On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 08:31:34 PM CDT, NW Mailing List via
> NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
> I was chatting via Zoom with a local group of model railroaders about my
> proposed model trackplan for a 1957-era Bristol yard. One of them asked
> whether RPO’s, and/or REA cars, were routinely set out/picked up in Bristol?
>
> And I had to admit I did not know.
>
> We collectively theorized that the RPO’s on the run-through N&W/Southern
> trio of named trains likely arrived and departed Bristol without any
> such swaps.
>
> Is that correct, ye who were there in days of passenger service?
>
> The question did raise in my mind the locals that the N&W and Southern
> ran, which originated or terminated in Bristol? Did they routinely include
> working RPO’s?
>
> I know they carried mostly head-end traffic; much of it seemingly storage
> mail, based on car types in photos I’ve seen.
>
> To sum it all up, were RPO’s and/or REA cars
> routinely added/subtracted/stored at Bristol?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Andre Jackson
>
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