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September 14, 2015 at 9:34 pm
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DR says: ” MoPac built these cars not only to replace aging heavyweight mail storage cars, but to take advantage of Post Office contracts that paid the railroads by the linear-foot of mail hauled, not weight or volume”
Maybe they should have hauled mail in covered gondolas to make even more money!
