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In the context of this Rushed By Railway Express Stickers you get a high-quality paper, printed just for you. But there is more. From By Railway Express Agency- In its peak, Railway Express Agency employed over , people in , offices and operated over , miles of railway lines. In addition, , miles of shipping lines, , miles of air routings and , miles of trucking lines were traveled by REA shipments. Seventeen thousand trucks, in conjunction with the above, handled over , separate shipments daily, ranging from small packages to carload-size lots. Railway Express Agency or REA, as it was known, used one of the largest fleet of trucks; owned and leased as many railroad cars as some of the largest railroad companies, yet was not a railroad in itself. In the s, green trucks would race out onto the aprons of airports, to waiting DC-6 airliners with shipments of “Overnight Air.” Through the s, Railway Express, with long strings of green refrigerator cars, would also haul oranges up from Florida to northeastern cities. Previously, in , the airlines in the had started scheduled operations. An air-express service was formed modeled on the railroads’ American Railway Express. By the eve of World War II, second-morning service was being provided from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Overnight service was offered between such points as New York and Chicago. REA functioned as a single entity to the customer, due to its contracts with the airlines and vast network of truck and rail depots. Until , REA did it all. The close-knit cooperation between Railway Express Agency (and the Post Office) and the railroads served as a prelude to today’s express operations run by United Parcel Service (UPS), FedEx, DHL and others, in their air-express services.
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