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[QUOTE]Originally posted by PullmanCo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by jebradley: [b]<portion snipped> last straw was the Post Office's "sectional center" system, actually a throwback to the "sorting post offices" of early 19th century, with ZIP codes and machine sorting added. Railway Post Office (sorting) cars were dropped thru the 1960s. Only "niche' markets now, alas![/b][/QUOTE] Well spoken. Truthfully, look at the makeup of first class traffic up to 1968, when the fledgling US Postal Service discontinued all their Railway Mail Service AND in-transit mail storage contracts. There were whole trains, scheduled on the employee and public timetables (thus First Class) that served the mail, express, and perishable markets. As I recall, if you dig through historic train numbers, the ATSF California Limited, once the premier train on the line, and the UP Los Angeles Limited, again once a premier train on the line, were the all-stops mail and express trains. Amtrak took as its legislative charter the remnant of passenger service ... BUT at the time in the 70s, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the railroads did not have a business model that supported high-end scheduled, advertised, "elite" freight traffic. Had that been part of the founding charter, Amtrak would not be where it is today. Just my $0.02. Your mileage may vary. John [/QB][/QUOTE]
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