offices. In many cases, this duplication of distribution was in the same building. Local postmasters had no jurisdiction over terminal RPO operations until the 1950s, when all the terminals were put under the supervision of the postmasters of the city in which they were located. The filling of assignments in the terminal was then limited to the roster from the civil service examination of the city post office. As railway post office routes declined in number, the volume of parcel post transported by this mode also decreased, allowing the closure of smaller terminals. Development of the U.S. Postal Service sectional centers duplicated many of the functions of the terminal RPO, and the terminals were phased out by the 1960s. Philatelic interest First class mail worked (sorted for distribution) by terminal RPOs usually received a Terminal RPO postmark. Like the cancellations from RPO cars themselves, terminal RPO postmarks are collected by those who specialize in this aspect of postal history. List of terminal RPO operations This is a preliminary list of some of the almost 100 terminal railway post office facilities which existed between 1913 and the early 1960s. Alabama: Birmingham Arkansas: Fort Smith, Little Rock, Texarkana California: Los Angeles (Los Angeles Terminal and Pacific Electric Terminal), Sacramento Colorado: Denver, Pueblo Connecticut: New London District of Columbia: Washington Florida: Jacksonville Georgia: Atlanta, Macon Illinois: Chicago (Northwestern terminal, South State terminal, Union terminal) Iowa: Council Bluffs, Sioux City Indiana: Indianapolis Kansas: Wichita Louisiana: Shreveport Maine: Portland Massachusetts: Boston (Boston Terminal and North Terminal), Springfield Michigan: Detroit Missouri: Kansas City, Springfield, St. Joseph, St. Louis Minnesota: Minneapolis, St. Paul Nebraska: Lincoln, Omaha (Burlington Depot and Union Depot) New Jersey: Atlantic City, Camden, Hoboken, Jersey City (Central Terminal and Erie Terminal), Weehawken New York: Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, New York City (Pennsylvania Terminal and West Side Terminal), Utica North Carolina: Greensboro North Dakota: Fargo Oklahoma: El Reno, Tulsa Ohio: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus Pennsylvania: Harrisburg, Philadelphia (Broad Street Terminal), Pittsburgh Rhode Island: Providence Tennessee: Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville Texas: Fort Worth, Houston Utah: Ogden Vermont: Rutland, White River Junction Washington: Spokane Wisconsin: Milwaukee Wyoming: Cheyenne References Mobile Post Office Society U.S. Postal Experience Survey Wilking, Clarence. (1985) The Railway Mail Service, Railway Mail Service Library, Boyce, Virginia. Available as an MS Word file at Rail transportation in the United States United States Postal Service