General Information

RPO

Postal-baggage cars

1. Postal-baggage cars were used in postal storage service when needed.
   

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SP's last RPO

1. SP did not run any RPOs after 1967.
   

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3. Vanishing Vistas postcard JT-1697 shows the Baggage-RPO used on the San Joaquin Daylight painted in the orange/red colors. If anyone's interested I can forward a scan.
   

4. Rob Sarberenyi
   

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RPO's and Daylights

1. The Shasta, San Joaquin and Sunbeam trains carried a working RPO. The San Joaquin Daylight first carried a Bag-Mail car with a 30' mail apartment. That was later replaced with a car with a 60' mail apartment. Both cars were rebuilt heavyweights. It is safe to say that the Shasta's #5000-5002 were the only RPO's built new for a "Daylight" service
   

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3. The Sunbeam was the 2nd full train to use the 1937 Pullman built 77' and 64' Daylight cars with the headend and rear cars being the only cars different than the ones built for the Coast Daylight. It wasn't the Sunbeam Daylight (some call it the Texas Daylight, but if you're a Texan that's a slander). It certainly wasn't CALLED a Daylight. Compare Coast, San Joaquin, and Shasta trains.
   

4. Tony Thompson
   

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Interior Paint

Interior color for Harriman style baggage cars & RPOs

1. In the early 1950s, the interior wall color on the 60' & 70' harriman style baggage & RPO's were most likely Sea Foam Green. Light Gray is also possible. 
   

2. Jeff Cauthen
   

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4. The USPO Railway Mail Service stipulated the interior paint colors for all RPOs inside the circa 1940s-1960s period, was a warm cream tone for the walls of the mail storage part of the car and a cool light green for the working mail "apartment"; white ceiling in both spaces. This standard was applied, according to Federal sources, to all US railroads. On checking the interior of the then-raw SP "shorty Harriman" RPO (ex-San Bruno Branch caboose) No.6008, the same interior colors were there in several good layers.
   

5. Kevin Bunker
   

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7. This information will be in the Color and Lettering Guide that is in production.
   

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9. Also, CSRM has a copy of SP LINES, COMMON STANDARD, SPECIFICATION C.S. 22, PAINT
   

10. CSRM will provide a copy for a reasonable fee.
    

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12. Adopted May 16, 1914; revised December 2, 1929 
    

13. Jeff Cauthen
    

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1949

1. The 1949 baggage-dorm and baggage-postal cars had interior colors specified per P-S builder's specs. Per those P-S builder's specs, they had their:
   

2.     walls painted Post Office Green synthetic gloss interior enamel, Sherwin-Williams #0-42-G-1.
   

3.     ceilings were Synthetic enamel gloss white #CH-9145.
   

4.     interior lettering was C.S. 22 SP Black #7.
   

5.     floors were C.S. 22 Maroon #4, but not fish racks.   
   

6. Jeff Cauthen
   

Modeling Interior Paint

1. If I were doing a Harriman baggage or RPO in the pre-war era, I'd follow the recommendation to use No. 9 and No. 9A postal car brown on the walls (and I'd probably leave the floor varnished wood based on the Smithsonian photo and SP caboose practice, although Jeff hasn't mentioned roof or floor paint specification for the earlier cars).
   

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3. For my post-war transition era, Harriman baggage and RPOs, I'll follow the 1949 P-S specification.
   

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5. My doors will be closed, the baggage cars unlit, and there isn't much in the way of windows to peek in through anyway on an HO car. I won't be detailing the interior of these cars, so I just want "effect," so getting the paint right or close will be as much as I'll do.
   

6. Arved Grass
   

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Specific Baggage - Postal Cars

40-BP Baggage PostalClass

40-BP-15 Baggage Postal Cars

    SP #6009

   These are 40’ RPO/Baggage cars.

1. ex-T&NO 251, renumbered SP 6009 6/25/1943, to baggage-express,
   

2. class 40-B; retired 12/1955, to caboose SP 475 12/11/1957; to R&LHS; at CSRM.
   

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4. This car was built in 1911 as Houston & Texas Central (later T&NO) 251 (or 250). It was one of 5 class 40-P-1 40 foot full RPO cars built in that year for the Texas Lines of SP. Others were H&TC 250 (or 251), ML&T 191-192, and LW 193.
   

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6. SP #4239-4241
   

7. Three similar cars were built for the Pacific Lines in 1909 as SP 4239-4241. These three were later transferred to SP de M.
   

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9. SP #6008-6009
   

10. H&TC/T&NO 250-251 were transferred to the Pacific Lines in 1944, renumbered as 6008-6009. H&TC 250-251 were converted in June 1925. It is unclear which Texas Lines car received which Pacific Lines number, although it seems likely that they were renumbered in sequence. The cars were used frequently on the San Francisco Peninsula. The five Texas Lines cars were converted to baggage - 15 foot RPO cars in the 1920s.  The Texas Lines were consolidated under the T&NO name in 1931, with cars retaining their numbers. Most were converted to baggage-express service, with the mail compartment removed.
    

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12. SP 6008 became (MofW?) caboose 2132 in 1956, and was retired in Merced in 1964. SP 6009 became caboose 475 in 1956 and was used as a transfer caboose on the San Bruno branch. It was retired in 1972 and acquired by the Pacific Coast chapter, R&LHS. In 1979 it was purchased by the California State Railroad Museum. It was originally planned to restore it as a baggage-RPO for the museum, but the GN RPO was acquired and was nearly complete, so that car went into the museum.
    

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 74-75

1. NMRA Bulletin June 1980                        Plans, SP Baggage/RPO 42ft.
   

60-BP-15 Baggage Postal Class

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 103, 109-110

60-BP-15-1 Baggage Postal Cars

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 88, 121

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 121

60-BP-15-2 Baggage Postal Cars

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 192, 194

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 192

60-BP-30 Baggage Postal Class

60-BP-30 Baggage Postal Cars

1. SP 60ft Mail Car, steel, 6wh. round roof.
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 118-120

Drawings

1. Plans                                                                    Model Railroader October 1952
   

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60-BP-30-1 Baggage PostalCars

1. #5079
   

2. #5180-5189
   

3. SP Common Std. Harriman Mail Car
   

4. (30’ Apt.), former AE-200
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 110-116

Drawings

1. Plans                                                                    Railroad Model Craftsman August 1988
   

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 104, 113

Modeling 60-BP- 30-1 Baggage Postal Cars

Ken Kidder

1. The Ken Kidder 60-foot RPO is not a bad model of SP’s Class 60-BP-30-1, a baggage-mail car with a 30-foot postal apartment. Use the appropriate six-wheel trucks.
   

2. Tony Thompson
   

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60-BP-30-2 Baggage Postal Cars

1. #5075-5078, 5080, 5191-95       
   

2. #5080 former AE #201
   

60-BP-30-3 Baggage Postal Cars

66-BP-30   Baggage-Postal Class

66-BP-30-1   Baggage-Postal Cars

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 400-401

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 400

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69-BP-15 Baggage Postal Class

69-BP-15-5 Baggage PostalCars

1. The 69-BP-30-5 cars were reconfigured to 69-BP-15-5. 
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 145, 146, 149

Modeling 69-BP- 15-5 Cars

Southern Car & Foundry's

Paint

1. Paint it dark olive. 
   

69-BP-30 Baggage Postal class

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 127

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 124

69-BP-30-1  Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

1. SP #6115-6117  SP Common Std. Harriman Mail Car
   

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3. SP 6115-6117 were baggage-express cars, ex-O&C 5033-5035 after the postal equipment was removed from the postal apartment.
   

4. The SP Class 69-BP-30-1 cars had smaller windows in the postal apartment than did the later cars.
   

1. There are similarities between the Harriman "Southern Pacific" '69 BP- cars and the "Union Pacific" Harriman '69 BP- cars. Their is a book out that covers this subject rather thoroughly; Southern Pacific Passenger Cars Volume 3: Head End Equipment.
   

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3. The first eight cars of this design were built in Lot 3843 to C.S. 232. Three went to SP (O&C) and 5 went to UP (O-WRR&N and OSL). They were essentially the same except for minor differences.
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 126

1.                                                                             http://www.utahrails.net
   

Drawings

   Plans                                                                    Railroad Model Craftsman Aug. 1988

Modeling 69-BP-30-1 Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

Southern Car & Foundry  (#1001)

1.                                                                             http://www.southerncarandfoundry.com
   

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69-BP-30-2  Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

1. #5075-5078, 5080, 5191-95
   

2. #5190-5195Had 30’ mail compartment, 69‘ long
   

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4. #5080 was former AE #201.
   

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6. The SP Class 69-BP-30-2 cars came in Lot 4175 and were C.S. 232, but had a different Pullman plan. Again O-WRR&N and OSL received cars in this lot. Please note: These are not really Harriman cars as they came after the dissolution of the Associated (Harriman) Lines. In any case, the postal apartment and baggage room windows in the Lot 4175 cars were larger than those on the earlier cars.
   

7. Jeff Cauthen
   

Details

1. For SP #5075~5078 and #5190~5195 (all 69-BP-30-2) came with globe ventilators.
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 130, 132-135

1.                                                                             http://www.utahrails.net
   

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 132, 133

Modeling 69-BP-30-2 Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

Southern Car & Foundry

    Their resin RPO cars make decent RPO cars (although they're long enough to bind going around sharp curves.)

1.                                                                             http://www.southerncarandfoundry.com/
   

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69-BP-30-3  Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

1. SP #5196-5201
   

2. Used on Coast Line Mail train, (circa 1960’s).
   

Details

1. Came with utility ventilators.
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 138, 140-143

1.                                                                             http://www.utahrails.net
   

Drawing

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 132, 133

Modeling 69-BP-30-3 Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

Southern Car & Foundry

1.                                                                              http://www.southerncarandfoundry.com
   

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69-BP-30-4  Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

1. SP #5164-5166
   

   Former AE #204, #205

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 144-145

1.                                                                             http://www.utahrails.net
   

Drawing

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 132, 145

Modeling 69-BP-30-4 Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

Southern Car & Foundry

1.                                                                              http://www.southerncarandfoundry.com
   

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69-BP-30-5  Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

1. The 69-BP-30-5 cars were reconfigured to 69-BP-15-5. 
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 146-149

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 132, 147

70-BP-15 Baggage Postal Class

70-BP-15s Baggage Postal Cars

1. The 70-BP-15 series was the most numerous of any of the heavyweight RPO cars on the S.P. system. The 70-BP-15 cars (classes 70-BP-15-1 thru 7) totaled 54 cars. Almost half were 70-BP-15-3s.
   

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3. The most common RPO series had such a small RPO section: only 15 feet. one would think the RPO sections of these cars would have become obsolete by WWII because they would seem to be designed for servicing low-population routes where passenger service would be cut back first. Maybe the RPO interiors were removed from these cars to increase their baggage/express capacity and the extra windows permanently covered, as well as how long they may have  served as manned RPOs.
   

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5. The RMS was very cheap in its payment to the railroads for RMS space. For instance, even if a car in use had a 30' RPO apartment, if the RMS required a 15' space, that is all for which it would pay. The problem for the railroads was that it they could not continually redesign/remodel cars to fit the then-current RMS specifications. As a result, it seems that cars operated on RMS routes might have been disproportionately used with respect to the revenue derived therefrom. An economist could more completely address this issue.
   

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7. An RPO is a "manned" car (even if it is within a portion of the entire car, the remainder of which might be handled by a baggage messenger).
   

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9. The other options include "storage mail" When cars were no longer considered to be under RMS contract, the RMS appurtenances were removed and the cars reverted to baggage or storage mail service.
   

10. Steve Peery
    

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70-BP-15-1 Baggage PostalCars

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 33, 152

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 152

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70-BP-15-2 Baggage PostalCars

1. #5168
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 150, 153

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 153

Modeling 70-BP-15-2 Baggage PostalCars

Precision Scale

1. Three Precision Scale HO models of S.P. heavyweight passenger cars: all had identification or car-number problems.
   

2. 70-BP-15-2 #5168. This is actually a model of a -3 since it has 2 doors and 5 windows per side as opposed to the -2's 3 doors and 1 window.
   

70-BP-15-3 Baggage PostalCars

1. SP 5145.
   

2. Built 1924. Rebuilt and reclassified 70- BP-30 in 1949.
   

1. The -3s had the same exterior appearance (2 doors, 5 windows on each side) as the 70-BP-30-1s built in the same year (1923).
   

2. The 70-BP-15-3 class (25 cars) were delivered with 15-ft. postal apartments, but were so arranged that they could be easily converted to 30-ft. postal apartment cars. Thirteen were indeed rearranged with 30-ft. postal apartments. Many other changes were made to these cars over the years. Thus, the 15- 3s had a "surplus" of windows because of its shorter (15 vs. 30 foot) RPO section.
   

3. Steve Peery
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 369

Drawing

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 155

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70-BP-15-4 Baggage PostalCars

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 164-165

Drawing

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 153

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70-BP-15-5 Baggage PostalCars

1. #5041, 5042
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 166, 168

Drawing

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 172

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70-BP-15-6 Baggage PostalCars

1. #5118-5122
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 166, 169-170

Drawing

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 172

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70-BP-15-7 Baggage PostalCars

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 171-172, 174

Drawing

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 172

70-BP-15-8 Baggage PostalCars

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 171

70-BP-30 Baggage Postal Class

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 122, 157-163

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 161

70-BP-30-1 Baggage-Postal Cars

1. 5129-5137        (30’ Apt.)
   

2. 5145-5154        (30’ Apt.), former 70-BP-30-3
   

3. 5161-5163        (30’ Apt.), former 70-BP-15-3
   

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5. The -1s had the same exterior appearance (2 doors, 5 windows on each side) as the 70-BP-15-3s built in the same year (1923).
   

6. Used on Coast Mail Route through SLO, (1962). It carried milk along with mail. [See photo below.]
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 175-178, 180

    Photo                                                                  Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 28

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 175, 177

Modeling 70-BP-30-1 Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

PSC brass

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70-BP-30-2 Baggage-Postal Cars

MOW RPO/Baggage

1. #5123-5128        (30’ Apt.)
   

2. #7072
   

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4. The following data is for SP 5123, class 70-BP-30-2
   

5. Built                - Standard Steel Car Company/in service - 12/10/1925
   

6. Length                         - 70'- 0 1/8" over end sills
   

7. Draft gears               - Bradford
   

8. Steam heat end valves and metallic connectors - 2"
   

9. Postal apartment fans     - Gyrocone
   

10. Trucks                       - class 6-TC-2, separate pedestal, 5x9 journals, clasp brake
    

11. Retired                        - held at Sacramento for SPMW conversion - 7/15/1965
    

12. Converted to relief outfit tool car SPMW 7014B - 12/21/1965
    

Paint

1. Painted exterior "Lark" Dark Gray - 2/1961
   

Reference

                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 180-182

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 179, 180

70-BP-30-3 Baggage PostalCars

1. #5065-5070
   

2. (30’ Apt.), with Titelock couplers, Waughmat Draft gears, 21/2” steam
   

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 183-186, 188-189

                                                                              Trainline

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                                                                               Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 170, 187

77-BP-60 Baggage Postal Class

77-BP-60 Baggage Postal Cars

1. #5045
   

2. It was built as a 77-D-9 diner #10141. It was rebuilt as a class 77-BP-60 RPO/Baggage in 1954 with no sub-class. One train it operated on as RPO/Baggage #5045 was the Owl.
   

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 194-199

80-BP-60  Baggage-Postal Class

80-BP-60-1  Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

1. #5217-5219
   

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3. These are 80' heavyweight Baggage-RPOs. The five baggage-mail cars with 60-foot mail compartments were assigned to the San Joaquin Daylight and the Owl in the 50’s.
   

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5. SP 5217 was rebuilt from baggage-horse SP 7247 and was assigned to the San Joaquin Daylight for most of the time until the mid-1960s. It was one of three similar cars (5217-19) and, as far as I know, never operated on the Shasta Daylight. When the Shasta Daylight had an operating RPO in the early 1950s it had a 30-foot mail apartment.  5217 has a 60-foot mail apartment.
   

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7. Paint
   

8. SP #5217-5219 were NEVER painted TTG.
   

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10. The article pg. 19 of Trainline No. 22, stated that all five cars were repainted to solid gray "after 1958." One of the Daylight-painted baggage-mail cars on the San Joaquin Daylight actually kept its Daylight colors up to at least 1962.
    

11. Reference
    

12. SPH&TS Volume 3 on head-end cars has photos of these cars.
    

13. See photo of #5219 in dark solid gray on pg. 19 of Trainline No. 22.
    

Lettering & Numbering

1. The lettering reads:
   

2. 1) United States Mail
   

3. 2) Railway Post Office
   

SP 40 ft RPO Lettering

1. A 40 ft. RPO and the lettering went as follows:
   

2. SOU -- the door -- THERN PACIFIC -- the door -- LINES
   

3. car numbers were at each end below the belt rail SP 4239
   

4. UNITED STATES MAIL RAILWAY POST OFFICE was centered below the three postal apartment windows
   

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6. The 1911 version was actually a baggage express car, and photos show it converted and in it's final appearance. For a photo go to:
   

7.                                            www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1916/sp6009.jpg
   

8. A copy of Sweetland's SP in Color Volume 1, the photos are great but the captions not so much, there is a photo of a baggage express #6008 on page 75. It differs from the photo on the website in that the "Baggage" lettering is on the opposite of the car between the short door and the car end. The 1909 version has two short doors that both extend up into the letterboard. This lettering was after 1917. As built, it had SOUTHERN PACIFIC (no LINES) only between the doors and the car numbers did not have SP initials.
   

Paint

1. Daylight
   

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 200-207, 483-490

1. There are photos of one of the cars        http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/mow.html
   

2. See article on these cars is in                          Trainline #22.
   

3. There are other photos at                 http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1916/sp5217.jpg
   

4.                           http://www.jtsrr.org/browsers/rpo.html
   

5.                           http://espee.railfan.net/sp-rpo-475.html
   

Drawing

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 483

Modeling 80-BP-60-1 Baggage Postal Cars

Coach Yard

81-BP-60  Baggage-Postal Cars

81-BP-60-1  Baggage-Postal Head-End Cars

1. The 80-BP-60 cars went into service in 1950. The regularly assigned mail cars back then were 70-BP-30 baggage mail cars with a semi-streamlined arch roof, although the relief mail car had a regular arch roof. The baggage-mail cars were used on San Joaquin Daylight and the Owl, and in later years on the Overland Route.
   

2. Diane Wolfgram
   

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 487

Modeling 80-BP-60-1 Baggage PostalCars

Union Station Products

1. USP now has sides available for the 80-BP-60-1, 80 ft baggage car sides. The product number is 5219. These sides don't include rivet detail, (if one wants to add that, apply rivet decals). The 80-BP-60 cars went into service in 1950, so wouldn't be appropriate for a 1941 SJD.
   

2. Diane Wolfgram
   

83-BP-30 Baggage-Postal Class

83-BP-30-1 Baggage Postal Cars  (Lightweight)

   #5000-5002

1. 5011 (was 6602);
   

2. 5012 (was 6601);
   

3. 5013 (was 6600)
   

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5. Renumbered in 1950, ‘53 and ‘62 respectively, used on the Shasta Daylight.
   

6. The Shasta trains carried a working RPO. It is safe to say that the Shasta's #5000-5002 were the only RPO's built new for a "Daylight" service.
   

7. Tony Thompson
   

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 466, 471-482, 495

Drawing

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 472, 480

Modeling 83-BP-30-1 Baggage Postal Cars  (Lightweight)

Union Station

1. Use Union Station #7568.
   

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83-BP-30-2 Baggage Postal Cars (Lightweight)

    #5005-5010

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 490-498

Drawing

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 492

83-BP-30-3  (Lightweight)

    #5020-5029

1. The Class 83-BP-30-3 were delivered in 1964.
   

Paint

1. Delivered in solid Dark Gray.
   

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 499-504

Drawing

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 499

83-BP-60 Baggage-Postal Class

83-BP-60-1 Baggage Postal Cars  (Lightweight)

    #5030-5036

1. The Class 83-BP-60-1 were delivered in 1964.
   

Paint

1. Delivered in solid Dark Gray.
   

Reference

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 461, 499, 501-511

Drawing

                                                                         Southern Pacific Passenger Cars, Vol 3: Head End Equipment, pg. 506

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