Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

The Post Office Railway, also known as Mail Rail, was a narrow-gauge driverless underground railway in London, built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to move mail between sorting offices.

The United States Postal Service's Railway Mail Service was a significant mail transportation service in the US during the time period from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century.

George B. Armstrong, manager of the Chicago Post Office, is generally credited with being the founder of the concept of en route mail sorting aboard trains which became the Railway Mail Service.

By 1869 when the Railway Mail Service was officially inaugurated, the system had expanded to virtually all of the major railroads of the United States, and the country was divided into six operating divisions.

Railway Mail Service ( note the " RMS " in the obliterator ) postal cancellation

The Railway Mail Service reached its peak in the 1920s, then began a gradual decline with the discontinuance of RPO service on branchlines and secondary routes.

As highway mail transportation became more prevalent, the Railway Mail Service was redesignated as the Postal Transportation Service.

* History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993: Railway Mail Service

( 1980 ) 29 Years to Oblivion, The Last Years of Railway Mail Service in the United States, Mobile Post Office Society, Omaha, Nebraska.

( 1985 ) The Railway Mail Service, Railway Mail Service Library, Boyce, Virginia.

( 1956 ) MEN AND MAIL IN TRANSIT, Railway Mail Service Library, Boyce, Virginia.

( 1956 ) MAIL IN MOTION, Railway Mail Service Library, Boyce, Virginia.

* Carr, Clark E. ( 1909 ) The Railway Mail Service, Its Origin and Development, A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago.

( 1980 ) 29 Years to Oblivion, The Last Years of Railway Mail Service in the United States, Mobile Post Office Society, Omaha.

The Fast Mail, History of the Railway Mail Service, Prologue Vol.

* Pennypacker, Bert The Evolution of Railway Mail, National Railway Bulletin Vol.

* Railway Mail Service, US mail transportation service until the mid-20th century

Only after the completion of the Chester and Holyhead Railway in 1850 and the building of Holyhead railway station did the Irish Mail return to Holyhead.

The London Post Office Railway was axed by Royal Mail in 2003 — this had been a network of driverless trains running along a private underground track since 1927.

Gordon Chappell, Regional Historian for the Park Service, claims that this depot building is one of only three log-cabin-style train stations currently standing, out of fourteen ever built in the U. S. The depot is the northern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway which begins in Williams, Arizona.

There is a L & HR snow flanger, Tidewater tank car, a CNJ box car owned by the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, a 1922 Chestnut Ridge Mack railbus owned by the Lehigh Valley NRHS, a Public Service trolley owned by the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society, a 44 ton GE locomotive and a 25 ton GE locomotive.

The City of Richland Hills is served by the Fort Worth Transportation Authority with Rider Request service, Mobility Impaired Traansportation Service ( MITS ) and the Richland Hills Station on the Trinity Railway Express commuter rail line.

Public Service Railway brought trolley lines into Rutherford around the turn of the century.

* Central Organization for Railway Electrification, an organization in India

* Association of Railway Museums, an organization in North America

The Pennsylvania Railway Museum Association non-profit organization purchased a 2, 000-foot section of railway line of the Pittsburgh Railways Company's abandoned Washington interurban trolley line from Washington to Pittsburgh near the Washington County Fairgrounds in Chartiers Township.

He proposed worldwide standard time zones, designed Canada's first postage stamp, left a huge body of surveying and map making, engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto.

Eugene Debs formed the American Railway Union ( ARU ) as an industrial organization in response to craft limitations.

* Ffestiniog Railway Society, the volunteer organization that helps run the Ffestiniog Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway located in Gwynedd, Wales

The convention which gave birth to the new organization actually began as a final conclave of the American Railway Union, which opened Tuesday morning, June 15, 1897, in Handel Hall, Chicago.

The ATU was founded as the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees in 1892 ; today, the ATU is the largest labor organization representing transit workers in the United States and Canada, with over 190, 000 members in 270 local unions spread across 46 states and nine provinces.

The South Devon Railway Trust is a charitable organization that operates a heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh in Devon, alongside the River Dart.

This venture came to nothing, but the organization set up to investigate it later turned to the Hamilton and North-Western Railway to build a new arm from Clarkstown ( now Beeton ) through Alliston to Collingwood.

Upon the organization of the Northern Pacific Railway — the old company having previously been under a receivership — the design was formally adopted as a trademark.

* Tourist Railway Association, Inc., an organization dedicated to promoting the tourist railway industry in the United States

The General Time Convention ( renamed the American Railway Association in 1891 ), an organization of American railroads aimed at coordinating schedules and operating standards, became increasingly concerned that if the United States government adopted a standard time scheme it would work to the disadvantage of its member railroads.

The Tourist Railway Association Inc. ( TRAIN ) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the tourist railway industry in the United States.

The 1980s saw TVRM be named to the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1980, the organization expanding, and getting more land donated from the Southern Railway.

While the F line is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway ( Muni ), its operation is supported by Market Street Railway, a nonprofit organization of streetcar enthusiasts which raises funds and helps to restore vintage streetcars.

* Market Street Railway ( nonprofit ), a nonprofit organization that supports the operation of the F Market historic streetcar line in San Francisco

The organization renamed itself the " Brotherhood of Railway Clerks ", in line with other railway " brotherhoods " of the time.

Beginning in the early 1990s, a non-profit organization established the WW & F Railway Museum.

In a series of donations beginning in 1986, Kennecott transferred the entire Ore Line, as well as the railroad's yard and shop facilities in East Ely, to the White Pine Historical Railroad Foundation, a non-profit organization which today operates the property as the Nevada Northern Railway Museum which operates a heritage railroad on this part of the former NN.

The Seashore Trolley Museum is owned and operated by the New England Electric Railway Historical Society ( NEERHS ), a non-profit organization.