Train Picks Up Mail Bag 1903

Name: Train Picks Up Mail Bag 1903
Uploaded: 2016-06-18T11:05:09Z
Duration: 45 s
Description: The subject of this Postal Department documentary is "snatching" the mail bag from the suspended post by the railroad mail clerk. As the film begins, a man climbs the steps leading to the device that suspends the mail bag in the air. A train can be seen in the distance approcaching the mail bag. At the end of the film, the mail bag is just being snatched from the suspension device.