mail trains
Letter-carrying rail service
Mail trains are railway trains that carry postal cargo, often running overnight routes to deliver letters and packages between cities.
In their heyday, postal workers sorted mail aboard the cars while in transit.
The term evokes an earlier era of rail-dominated logistics, before trucks and planes took over most mail delivery.
- parcelsWrapped items for delivery
- railroadPermanent track for trains
- mailbagSack for letters
- sorting officePostal processing facility
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
letter sorting · freight car · dead letter office · postmarks · locomotive · iron horse · railway network · special delivery · postal routes · transportation · postal workers · postmaster general · Pony Express · railway stations · whistle stop · parcel delivery · steam engine · post office
- postal servicespost office, stamps, delivery, packages, envelopes
- railwayslocomotives, locomotive, tracks, rails, railway
- train typescommuter rail, light rail, local service, heritage railways, Sprinter
mail trainspassenger trains
Locomotives transporting people
passenger service · commuter trains · passenger coaches · passenger rail · people movers
mail trainsmail trucks
Vehicles transporting postal items
mail planes · airmail · mail coaches · mail carriers · postal vehicles
mail, train, mails, mailed, mailing, mailer, mailman, mailbox, trains