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Chris Knight's Collection
 
6/24/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Kansas City Southern
Type: RPO
AAR Class: PB: A car constructed for passenger train service and equipped to handle baggage, express, mail, merchandise or similar products.
AAR Type: M510
Detail Info:   Misc Cars
User Notes:   Built 8/1931; Museum Baldwin city KS

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KCS Pullman Standard RPO 30
Title:  KCS Pullman Standard RPO 30
Description:  This car has a museum display on the baggage side and-a full RPO Display on the other side. Iat also has full working mail grab hhooks on the sides.
Photo Date:  9/4/2004  Upload Date: 9/5/2004 8:51:02 PM
Location:  Baldwin City, KS
Author:  Chris Knight
Categories:  RollingStock
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Mail Bag side of the KCS RPO 30
Title:  Mail Bag side of the KCS RPO 30
Description:  As you can see there lots of mail bags some of them full of mail (Read Junk Mail), a sorting area and some other RPO Displays.
Photo Date:  9/4/2004  Upload Date: 9/5/2004 8:51:02 PM
Location:  Baldwin City, KS
Author:  Chris Knight
Categories:  RollingStock
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Baggage (Museum) Area of KCS RPO 30
Title:  Baggage (Museum) Area of KCS RPO 30
Description:  THe Midland Railway has placed displies of historic Railrond Artifacts and Memorbilla. Also notice the poles above, the right side is the E-Brake and the right side is the Signal Stop lever.
Photo Date:  9/4/2004  Upload Date: 9/5/2004 8:51:02 PM
Location:  Baldwin City, KS
Author:  Chris Knight
Categories:  RollingStock
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Mail Grab Hook on KCS RPO 30
Title:  Mail Grab Hook on KCS RPO 30
Description:  Yes, that is my hand holding up the hook to show you how it works. The hook would snach a bag f}om a pole at a depot and when it snacthes you have to catch it before it drops out from the hook and you lose the mail all over the tracks, which would be a bad thing.
Photo Date:  9/4/2004  Upload Date: 9/5/2004 8:51:02 PM
Location:  Baldwin City, KS
Author:  Chris Knight
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  701   Comments: 0


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