A fast Santa Fe 16 car mail train is seen west of Florence Kansas on July 1st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

An eastbound Rio Grande PA-1 6013 on the point of the standard two car consist, the "Yampa Valley Mail" in a Blizzard at Winter Park, Colorado on January 19, 1962. Photo by H.F. Wagner,... (more)

The legendary photographer Otto Perry captured this AT&SF 17 car mail train, number 8, doing 50 MPH at Bernalillo New Mexico on September 20th 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 3460 leads a twelve car Fast Mail Express, ATSF train 7, doing 60 MPH, just east of La Junta Colorado, on June 4th 1939. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Just one Alco unit 6011 and two passenger cars, made up the Denver to Craig "Yampa Valley Mail" leaving Denver on March 4, 1962. From my slide collection, Photo by Gordon B. Mott.

The morning mist still hangs in the Hudson Valley as a quartet of Penn Central E8s hustle a southbound Flexi-Van mail train towards the ex-NYC yard on the west side of Manhattan.

On a winter morning, triple E8s power Penn Central Flexivan mail train 104 through East Chatham, NY, headed for Boston on the former Boston & Albany line. Back then dedicated mail and express jobs... (more)

The night train from Detroit is ending its run in Mackinaw City behind a Lima Mohawk. As you can tell by the cars visible in the photo, train 207 carried a large amount of Mail and Express to the ... (more)

The era of traditional mail and express trains was winding down in 1968, but some healthy-looking ones still ran in Penn Central territory. New York Central E8s 4041-4051 led Boston-bound mail tra... (more)

A UP mail train pulled by a set of Alco PA's.

Santa Fe's eastbound Mail Train 4 behind four Alco PA’s pauses at Wichita, Kansas before rushing onward to Kansas City.

Seaboard Air Line E7A 3026 and SDP35 1114 are working into Aberdeen, NC with Passenger, Mail, and Express train No. 5. Brake smoke begins to enshroud the train as it makes it's scheduled 7:00am s... (more)

Rio Grande 5571 and an (almost) matched set of F’s climb through Arvada west of Denver with the PFM, Pacific Fast Mail, for Salt Lake City and points west. Even with a pair of pushers lending th... (more)

In mid-1965, it was still possible to catch an Alco PA nosing out of Kansas City Union Station with Santa Fe train 7, the Fast Mail Express for Los Angeles. On April 25, the 65 is just getting und... (more)

Seaboard local passenger, mail, and express train No. 3 awaits its' 4:15 pm departure on this bitterly cold February afternoon in 1965.