St. Louis - Southwestern (Cotton Belt)
—1904 —
American Car and Foundry built this 60' long mail/express car for about $8,000. It weighs 80,000 pounds, has a wooden body and its underframe. The turnbuckles that join the two ends of each rod at the center of the car can be adjusted to keep the car's body straight and level. The railway post office markins show that the separate 15' long mail "apartment," as the post office called it, met the standards for handling U.S. mail. The mail catcher arm on its door could pick up sacks of first class mail at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour. Donated by the St. Louis - Southwestern Ry in 1952.| HM Number | HM2G6U |
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| Year Placed | 2013 |
| Placed By | Museum of Transportation |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Sunday, April 28th, 2019 at 5:04pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 15S E 721188 N 4272326 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.57188333, -90.46103333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 34.313', W 90° 27.662' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 34' 18.78" N, 90° 27' 39.72" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling East |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near , , |
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