TVRM's Southern Railway NO. 41 is a complete Railway Mail Service car which is awaiting restoration. The car was never modified and has all of the interior fixtures including the light fixtures, letter case, sorting tables, racks and catcher arm. Only the racks and catcher arm are dismantled as they were removed for restoration and never put back.

awalker2002@comcast.net

> We need a pattern or drawings of a standard
> mail bag hook that would have been
> positioned at each door. The brackets for
> the hooks are still on the car, but I have
> not been able to come up with a good
> illustration of the hook so we can fabricate
> replacements.

One other possibility: The Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona had a remarkably complete RPO car around.........

darn it, I *know* I've swung up a hook from an RPO on display somewhere. Wondering whether it was the Altoona car, the SR 36 in Gaithersburg, or something sitting in one of the parts lines at one of the car shops...... (I can rest certain that it wasn't on the Ma & Pa's RPO in the B&O Museum--the Ma & Pa couldn't get an RPO going fast enough!)

lner4472@bcpl.net