How strange, especially at this time of year, to think that the mail once moved by train. For a long while special cars had postal agents picking up the mail, sorting the mail and getting it ready to drop off at other cities.
When manned mail cars were no longer used, mail trains that just carried already-sorted mail from city to city could still be found.
This is Penn Central’s Mail 9. The PC found a good use for some of their E-units that were no longer needed after Amtrak took over the nation’s passenger trains.
Leading the Mail 9 is PC E8A No. 4246 westbound past Fairhope Tower in Canton around July) 1973.
The motive power consist includes an E8A, E8A, E7A, E7B, E8A, and another E7A.
Article and Photograph by Robert Farkas
Tags: Canton Area Railroads, Canton Ohio, E8A locomotives, Fairhope Tower, Penn Central, Penn Central E unit, Penn Central locomotives, Penn Central Mail 9, Penn Central motive power, Robert Farkas photography
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