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.

Santa Fe eastbound Mail Train 8 blasts through Stafford, Kansas without even slowing down, and the Agent appears to be looking down, not watching the action or the RPO clerk in the first car comin... (more)

Santa Fe’s eastbound Mail Train No. 8 was leaving Emporia, Kansas on April 11, 1965.

“Got Mail?” This was a healthy mail train, No. 8, on Santa Fe’s transcontinental mainline at Ottawa, Kansas on May 1, 1965. The REA Express reefers on the head end were loaded with Calif... (more)