For whatever it's worth, my mother and her older sisters all recall vividly times when they put mail on the 15 (in Boone) via the mail slot and had it in the hands of the recepient before day's end.

A letter box on the mail car was common. A friend who's dad was a RPO clerk said it allowed people from small towns to mail a letter without the local postmaster seeing to whom they were sending

Most, if not all RPOs had a letter slot. That is one feature of the "working" RPO that we lost when first class mail went airborne and the rest went sealed. Most solid mail trains carried many

Most mail was moved in sacks, but most mail cars also had such a letter slot. They say that in the primitive days of the 1940s, a letter dropped in the slot of a Rutland RR mail car in Rutland, VT

Rick, The "eastern model RR manufacturer" is me. Fred asked me about the car and I asked for some marketing info. He's posting this note to the HOn3, EBT and one other list. Although I'm now

The attached B&W jpg photo shows the letter box built into the sides of combine 15. I assume it was so folks could drop their mail in like we would at the Post Office today (DUH!) Was this common on

A resounding YES to this idea. I spoke to Ak-Sar-Ben Modelers at a Timonium, MD show a couple a years ago about making trailer castings for ET&WNC and the flatcars, but nothing came of it. If this

Hi folks, This was on the HOn3 list and thought it might play better here: Cheers, Rick -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rick Blanchard rick@... San Diego, CA My East Tennessee and Western North

Sent this message out a couple of days ago. I made the mistake of subscribing to msn.com which changed my email defaults. I was sending messages under a new address which the onelist server didn't

Speaking of things "borrowed" from Tweetsie, is there a listing somewhere of other ETWNC rolling stock in various places around the country? NJ and NC have boxcars, there are tank bodies in NC and

'Thought some of you might be interested in this that was in the latest edition of the Timber Transfer, the publication of the Friends of the East Broad Top. My editing emphasises the reference to

Michael, There is a video source for standard gauge steam on the ET&WNC. It is Steam Shortlines Southern Style, available from A&R Productions. it has about 15 minutes of ET in the 60s. It

Karl and all, My source for photos of standard gauge ET&WNC equipment if from Ken Marsh of Kingsport, TN. (PO BOX 3712, Kingsport,Tn, 37664). Ken has Photos of most standard gauge steam and diesel

Yeah, we did have a very interesting encounter. If you would like to see a few photos of the RS3s (and the interesting story aforementioned) check my web page in the 1989 and 1990 photos

Welcome! I don't think 1960's standard gauge is taboo . . . Rumor has it that one reunion group had a most interesting encounter with a couple while photographing the ET&WNC RS3(?)! I grew up in

Hey, the standard gage days of the ET&WNC are very interesting. I am modeling the Alco RS3 diesel in largescale. Have been trying to get pictures. Have some after the engines were out of service

List Members, Hello, my name is MIchael Baskette. I'm a model railroader in Lexington, KY and a former a native of Johnson City Tennessee. I saw you had created this list on the Slim Rails Web site,

Les, Whoops! It was hiding! Note that if you include the entire address, including the "http://" part, it can be clicked on in the message and will take you to the page, like

Les, You forgot the address: http://www.tiac.com/users/lwalker/wcm/wcm.html Cheers, Rick -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rick Blanchard rick@... San Diego, CA My East Tennessee and Western North

Well, I finally updated our web page. It looks better... it loads faster ... click on the small picture and see the larger one (that takes a little longer). The picts aren't quite as good as before