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Moving the Mail : Mail by Rail : Mail-on-the-Fly

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Instead of stopping at every small town to transfer the mail, railway mail trains were fitted with catcher arms that snatched mailbags off of cranes such as this.
Mail crane on display in the Museum's atrium










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