Norfolk and Cincinnati ED RPO scenes --and scenery

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Frank,

Thanks for making this available; very interesting.

Jim Brewer

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:16 AM NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <
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> William N. Gray lived at Virginia Beach and was a Railway Postal Clerk on
> the Columbus & Norfolk East Division Railway Post Office (RPO). During 1959
> he filmed 8 mm scenes between Roanoke and Bluefield. I met him at a
> Lynchburg reunion around 30 years ago. He tried showing the film to other
> retired clerks but after a few minutes, the film broke at a splice. He
> promised to have a copy made to a VHS tape which he sent a few months
> later. I had the tape digitized during 2020.
>
> Photo quality is grainy and the focus is fuzzy, but so are my memories.
> Someone familiar with the terrain can fill in the gaps with their
> imagination. Although the recording is 120 minutes, only the first 57
> minutes have film content; the rest is blue screen. I do not think the
> original film was preserved by his family after he died. I never received
> responses to letters I wrote regarding items he had, but this tape is his
> legacy. All of the footage was filmed from a RPO door. It is interesting to
> me how much storage mail or express was on the head end in these views.
>
> The WeTransfer download is 1.4 gigabytes: https://we.tl/t-QZCw6QkPtK The
> link is valid for about five days for anyone else who wants this digitized
> movie.
>
> Happy new year,
>
> Frank Scheer
> f_scheer at yahoo.com
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