RPO | City of Plano - Interurban Railway Museum

Blueprint - Blueprint of Passenger Motor 360 [Original]

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Clipping, Newspaper - Newspaper Clipping - History of Railway Post Office

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Damaged Passenger Motor 350 at Monroe Shops Yard - 1946

Insurance photograph showing damage to the left side of Passenger Motor 350 after an accident. Photograph taken on the south side of the Monroe Shops Carbarn. See: Map 3; Map 8, Detail A

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Denison Bound TER RPO Passenger Motor 350 - 1946, April 20

Texas Electric Railway Company RPO Passenger Motor 350 is Denison (north) bound on Bryan Street. It's followed by Passenger Motor 360. See: Map 8

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Drawing, Technical - Technical Drawing of Texas Traction Cars 350 & 351

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Envelope - 1984 Envelope Advertising Annual Meeting in Dallas of the Texas Mobile Post Office Society

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Envelope - TER End-of-Service Commemorative Envelope with RPO and RMS Stamps

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Envelope - TER Envelope with RPO Cancel and RMS Stamps

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Freshly Repainted TER Passenger Motor 360 at Dallas Interurban Station - 1938

Texas Electric Railway Company Postal Car 360 stands at the Dallas Interurban Station over a work pit. The rail car appears to be freshly repainted and perhaps just out of the repair shop. This photo was taken before some cars were rebuilt and the arched windows changed to rectangular. In 1932, Passenger Motors 360 and 362 became one-man Railway Post Office cars. In the case of RPO cars, the term "one-man", refers to car operation and not...

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Hermon Cook Sr. Beside Former TER Passenger Motor 360 - 1981

Hermon C. Cook Sr., donor of Texas Electric Passenger Motor 360 to the City of Plano for the Interurban Railway Museum, stands beside the railcar at his farm at Waxahachie, TX. This car was sitting on some kind of support to keep it off the ground. This car, originally Texas Traction Interurban Motor 11, was renumbered 360 during service at Texas Electric Railway. It was purchased by Mr. Cook, without the trucks, at the sale of assets after T...

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Interior of TER RPO Passenger Motor 350 - 1948, July 4

SNAPSHOT: Interior of Texas Electric Railway RPO Passenger Motor 350. This looks to the rear of the car, as you can see the Toilet sign. The car stood in the Denison Yard. See: Map 1, Detail 1, Denison Station Detail

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Interior View of RPO Passenger Motor 350 - bef 1917

Interior view of Texas Electric Railway Post Office (RPO) Car 350. All RPO cars were configured alike; here, the original roof version is in evidence. The cars were rebuilt in 1917 to what is now the roof version found on Passenger Motor 360. Drawing on the success of earlier railway postal efforts, the U.S. Post Office standardized the layout and floor plan of RPO cars, handling most back-end post office processing functions. The postal offi...

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Johnnie J. Myers at Controls of Car 360 - 2007

Johnnie J. Myers, seated at the controls of Car 360, demonstrating the method of operation.

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Johnnie J. Myers Beside TER Passenger Motor 360 - 1985, April

SNAPSHOT: Here, Johnnie J. Myers stands with crossed arms in front of Passenger Motor 360. The car has an 'Over Size Load' sign strapped to the front as it's prepared to be moved from the Cook farm to Plano. Johnnie Myers and Jim Fox, an employee of the City of Plano, Department of Parks and Recreation at the time, were the principal proponents behind saving Plano Station and restoring Texas Electric Railway Company Passenger Motor 360. A ...

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Letter - Letter: Robert P. Townley Account of 1948 Interurban Ride

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Loading Mail onto TER RPO Passenger Motor 362 at Dallas Terminal - 1948

A US Postal Truck is backed up to unload mail onto Texas Electric Railway Company RPO Passenger Motor 362. All mail was handled by US Post Office employees and all mail was loaded/unloaded on Track 7, at the Dallas Terminal. See: Map 8, Detail C

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Night Run of TER Passenger Motor 360 - 1920

GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVE PRINT: Texas Electric Railway Passenger Motor 360 northbound on Bryan St. at Haskell Avenue, approaches a passenger pickup location; night view. Although identified with a different date, it appears photos catalogued as CP.2007.CL.1-69 and CP.2007.CL.1-474 A are a view of the car now stopped for passengers and the photo catalogued as CP.2007.CL.1-29 is a closer view of the same car. See: Map 3; Map 8

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