Santa Fe F7A #22 with four other passenger Fs, passes Cajon Pass (Summit), California with No.7 the Fast Mail Express, the green flags are displayed meaning its the second section of No.7 on Ju... (more)

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.

AT&SF mail train number 7 hustles at 70 MPH, with 16 cars, east of Newton Kansas, on August 21st 1958. Otto 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.

Two Seaboard E7(A)'s 3047 and 3034 leading a southbound mail and express train through Chester south of Richmond, Virginia in April 1967. Photo from my collection, Photo by Wiley Bryan.

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 eastbound Overland Mail stops at Montello, Nevada back in the days when the railroads had a mail contract and long mail and express trains like this were common. In addition to handling the m... (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 southbound mail finishing its run on the Washington Division on a gloomy January day.

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.