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For one hundred years, "You've Got Mail" meant a train had travelled across country to deliver letters and packages. According to Washington, D.C.'s U.S. Postal Museum, until 1977, every train included a Railway Post Office (RPO) car. In it, postal clerks frantically sorted through a mountain of mail as the train sped to its next stop. The Museum's website explains, "On board these cars were teams of clerks working to ensure that all the mail loaded into the car was canceled, sorted and loaded into mail sacks for delivery to post offices across the nation. From its earliest days the job was one of the most exacting in the postal system."Danbury Railway Museum celebrates the bygone era of the Railway Post Office cars and the indefatigable clerks who met their challenge. The museum features a 100-year old Pennsylvania Railroad Railway Post Office car to tour, as well as rides on many different trains, demonstrations of car coupling and uncoupling, whistling, hand signalling and more. Crafts, exhibits and layouts are also on the agenda. The RPO party takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on August 14. Tickets are $8. For more information and directions, visit the Railway Museum's website.
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