Casey Akin Wrote:
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> I am assuming the rails on top of the cars are
> hand rails for walking on top. What is the reason
> these are found on RPOs but not really other
> passenger and baggage cars?
The RPO apartment was the domain of the Postal Clerks and no others were allowed to enter -- the partition between the baggage room and the RPO apartment would NOT have a door. So on the mixed train, the brakemen would have to go up and over the RPO car to get to the freight cars.
On some baggage-RPO cars there was a crawl through with a lockable door
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