Re: C&S RPO 11: More details

Posted by Keith Hayes on Nov 04, 2018; 10:46pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-RPO-11-Linn-Moedinger-s-Shapeways-Print-in-Sn3-and-Hon3-tp12427p12619.html

Thank you for the illustrated response, Jim.

I personally like the short, double door express cars. I am not seeing them in these trains. I still am wishing for a 3d print of one, as I prefer the contrast of the shorter passenger car to the longer, single door versions.

This does make the case for the RPO-coach 40-43. In fact the express / RPO coach / coach train (maybe with a second coach?) would make for quite a long train for 71-72.

Perhaps someone among us more curios than myself can educate us on RPO rules? My Spidey sense tells me that the clerk would not lock up the RPO in Como and let the car go on to Leadville alone. Seems to me there would be mail, possibly returning to Denver, and they would be obliged to stay with the mail until it got to Denver or Leadville. Though there would not be much, I cannot imagine them unloading a bag and overnighting it in the Como PO.

Where did the mail clerk spend the night in Como, or Leadville? I trust they rode the train the entire distance, unlike the engine crews?