Let's See Your Railway Post Office Rpo Items

tonymacg,
Thx for the info!

Cjd,
Senegal, St. Louis Dakar is absolutely great!

Poland, line Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) - Warszawa

Wikipedia has a 1901 route map for the St. Louis-Dakar Line in Senegal, the first railway in French West Africa:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ouis1901.jpg

Probably quite exciting in many respects.

To continue the Yugoslav examples I showed on a previous page: here we move on to post-WW2.

The final pre-war double-circle type continued to be used under the Republic:


Visegrad-Sarajevo Line 18 1956

But the vast majority post-war were a single circle cancel which exists in a number of sub types. The first types have the two terminal offices of the line at the top of the circle, and the line number at the bottom :


Large numeral
Vis-Beograd Line 2 1964


Small numeral
Rijeka-Zagreb Line 23 1956



As above but in Cyrillic script
Subotica-Beograd Line 7 1948

The following types have an intermediate as well as the two terminal offices:

Large numeral
Subotica-Senta-Novi Sad Line 156 1964


Small numeral
Novi Sad-Beograd-Vrsac Line 174 1956

A different type has no Line number, replaced with an asterisk:

Ljubljana-Sentvid 1967

Finally a 'one off' type:
In the bottom of the circle is the Line number and the terminal offices. At the top (though difficult to read on this copy) is the word Omladinska. This means Youth (short for omladinska pruga = youth railway). This was to commemorate the fact that this railway was built by volunteers from Youth organizations.


Samac-Sarajevo Line 37 1947

All the train stuff in my collection and this is the first actual RPO cancel!



From the Bangor & Aroostook in Maine.

Couple US

NY & Boston RPO



I think this one is Chicago North Clayborne st. RPO ?

Not RPO but AMTRAK related









These postmarks were available for the inaugural run of AMTRAK's Downeaster From Boston MA to Portland ME. The service proved to be successful for both Boston & Portland area residents, so much so that AMTRAK has extended the service to Freeport ME, which is a major shopping mecca for Maine.

This appears to be an RPO. We have had a discussion about it over in the cover forum, and we can come to an agreement on that but can't seem to figure out where from.

That set of Downeaster covers is nifty. I only have one cancel from the event, on a homemade cover :-)

Glad to see this thread revived!
Your title said 'Railway Post office items'
I know I've posted this elsewhere, but I can't resist.
A CNR 'pigeon hole' mail sorter shelf thingy (I'm not really sure what to call it)





I mean, you did say item
Funny thing is I've had this thing for years, and it suddenly dawned on me one day, long after I'd started collecting again, the connection.
Duh!

NICE! :-)

To add onto an earlier post.

Albuquerque & Albany



Earlier Albuquerque & ?, every time I try and solve it my eyes hurt.

stallzer, I think that's Alburg (VT) & Albany on the first one and possibly the second.

Here's a really interesting link: Thrill and Romance in the Railway Mail Service

Stallzer: I think your geography is a bit off. I think the RPO postmarks read:

1. Alburg (VT) & Albany RPO; and
2. Alburg (VT) & Troy RPO

This excerpt also refers to the Alburg & Albany and Alburg & Troy routes as it first appeared in the Postal Bulletin in 1920: