[PRR-talk] Mail and Express trains

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In a message dated 12/22/07 1:47:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
prr4800 at charter.net writes:

1.    Were all of the  cars equiped with steam  heating piping?? 

2.    Why were combines sometime used as rider cars??   (Rather than coaches 
or something else?)
3.    Were these rider cars steam  heated??
 
 
Dad was a passenger conductor between Harrisburg and Altoona.  He  worked a 
passenger train east and a mail train west.  As far as I can  remember all of 
the cars on the mail train had steam heat lines but not sure if  they were 
hooked up.  What I remember of rider cars was in later years when  PRR and NYC 
merged and most of the mail trains went to Flexi Vans.  The  Flexi Van cars were 
steam line equipped but when a rider coach was used it was  usually placed 
right behind the engines.  Too young to remember combines,  perhaps another 
member of the list can help out. 

 
 
4.    Some N-5 cabooses were  lettered Assigned Railway Express or something 
like that. Were they steam line  equiped??


My guess would be they were equipped to run at the higher speeds ( 60+)  that 
the mail trains operated at and were kept in that pool.  Again, just  an 
assumption and perhaps others can help.
 
                                                                              
                           Merry Christmas
                                                                              
                            Bill



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