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Post′al-car.

A railway-car specially arranged for the reception, distribution, and delivery of mail matter. Some recently introduced on the Michigan Central Railroad are 48 feet in length, two thirds of the interior being occupied by cases for letters and papers, arranged in semicircular form, and by distributing-tables; the remainder is used as a “throughmail room,” where the bags are placed after distribution. A patent bag-catcher, which snatches the mail-bags from cranes at the different stations as the train passes, is fixed to each door of the car.

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