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I despised these cars back in the day, viewing them as glorified boxcars in passenger service. At the time, I thought that piggyback cars, trains with 10-15 Railway Express, PRR and other assorted baggage cars, and these mail storage cars really looked sorry, compared to the Texas Eagles which until 1969 still had a lengthy, dignified passenger train appearance. Now, almost 50 years later, I wish that I had taken a lot more photos and gathered a lot more paper documentation on the mail trains — they were the more interesting operation, every consist different, while the Eagles were rather predictable.
Bill Pollard
