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  • December 17, 2020 at 2:24 am #6111
    princessclyne69
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    Here’s the photo I’m referencing.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Railroad-Slide-Missouri-Pacific-EMD-E8A-38-1967-Texas-Eagle-Passenger-Train-MP/303811063832?hash=item46bc8cf018:g:SwwAAOSwK8NfzDKP

    I’m separated from my timetables and other reference material right now. This is obviously a southbound with several head-end cars at Little Rock, and it’s obviously daytime. Is this #7? There are two express cars from GM&O and an express box from NYC, with a couple of MP express or storage mail cars behind. Was this typical at this late date?

    RG7

    December 17, 2020 at 1:52 pm #10015
    benjamintickell53
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    Absolutely, it is number 7 at Little Rock. Until the mail and express debacles shifted that business off of the railroad and onto the highways, number 7 was often the longest train to visit Little Rock during a 24-hour period in 1961-1967. Neither of the northbound mail and express trains (3 and 8) had the same length because some percentage of the head end cars returned north in deadhead freight service because both mail and express traffic volume was considerably heavier north/northeast to southwest. Head end cars from other railroads were common, NYC and PRR along with GM&O of course, but I have also seen C&O, NH, Erie, and a good assortment of Railway Express cars. The working baggage car, RPO, grill coach and coach were more or less mid-train, often with a string of head end cars destined for Texarkana proper behind the coach. Remember that No. 7 was one of the trains for which the rider baggage cars were used as detailed in the Spring 2012 Eagle.

    Bill Pollard

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