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RPO/Baggage Car Roster
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Car |
Status as of Spring 2013 |
| SOU 153 |
In use as museum library space |
| SOU 1701 Grand Junction |
Open as Exhibit |
| SOU 116 |
Stored pending restoration |
| SOU 451 |
In use as museum library |
| SOU 582 |
Stored pending restoration |
| SOU 4529 |
Now in use for museum event rental space |
| SOU 6457 |
Stored pending restoration |
| CofG 405 |
In use as library / archives storage |
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| Southern Railway #153 |
U.S. Railway Post Office |
| Built 1928, Bethlehem Steel. Car is half post office, half
baggage compartment. Mail compartment side doors are equipped with
steel catcher arms so a mail pouch can be picked up from trackside
crane without stopping or slowing train. Ran on
Cincinnati-Jacksonville passenger train Royal Palm
between Atlanta and Jacksonville. Donated 1968.
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info on Railway Mail Service
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| Southern Railway #1701 Grand
Junction |
U.S. Railway Post Office |
| Built 1941, Pullman, for passenger train Tennessean.
All cars named after cities on the train's route. RPO section is
60'. Baggage compartment is 20'. Lightweight. Donated 1970.
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| Southern #116 |
Baggage Car |
| Built 1922, Pullman. Length: 60ft. The star beside the number
indicates that this is a staffed car called a
"messenger," and, as such, has a restroom on board. |
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| Southern #451 |
Baggage Car |
| Converted from Pullman tourist sleeper. #6031 in 1954. |
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| Southern #582 |
Baggage Car |
| Built 1920, Pullman, as 12 section, one drawing room sleeper
"Benburb." Downgraded to tourist sleeper #2438 in 1942.
Converted to baggage car 1948. Donated 1972. |
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| Southern #4529 |
Baggage Car |
| Built 1918, Pullman, for NO&NE, as 12 section, 1 drawing
room sleeper "Dorado." Downgraded to tourist sleeper
#3009 in 1937. Converted to baggage car 1955. Donated 1971. |
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| Southern #6457 |
Baggage Car |
| Built 1926, Pullman, as tourist sleeper Point Noire.
Converted by Southern to baggage express car in 1950s and assigned
to GS&F. |
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| Central of Georgia #405 |
Baggage Car |
| Built by Pullman, 1916, as a cavalry horse carrier. Converted to
a baggage car then to a commissary car. Donated 1968. |
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