Lake Superior
Railroad Museum

NP Railway Post Office No. 1447

NP Railway Post Office No. 1447

No. 1447 was built in 1914 and was fully equipped with a 30-foot Railway Post Office mail compartment and a 40-foot baggage section. The postal employees would work to get the mail ready between stations, catching mail for pickup with an extendable hook that would catch mail bags hoisted on poles outside train stations.

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