Blowing their whistles and puffing steam, trains pulled into the Postal Museum just in time for Father’s Day! The Washington, DC Z-Bends Track Group and the Rappahannock Model Railroad Club brought their impressive model train layouts and the Railway Mail Service Library staffed an information table.
Fun family activities included tooting train whistles, innovating ways to move the mail faster, and learning to talk like a “mail slinger.”
The Rappahannock Model Railroad Club’s trains whiz by in the Postal Museum’s atrium. Notice the United States Postal Service train cars!
Trains take over the Postal Museum for Train Day 2009.
A fun circus scene on a train model.
Tricia, a Postal Museum volunteer, helps young Railway Post Office workers sort the mail in the museum’s train car. It’s harder than it looks!
Charlotte, a Postal Museum educator, explains how train whistles use patters to communicate different messages that make train travel less dangerous.
An activity table at Trains Day 2009 includes “mail slinger” slang words. Wonder what “bum” means? Find out here.
