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EIU Teaching with Primary Sources
Mr. Bliss
Name: Don Bliss
Hometown: Burlington, Iowa
Years of Service: 1959-1967
Lines Worked: Chicago to Council Bluff, Washington to Chicago, Grand Rapids to Chicago
Assignment after Mail Train: Burlington Post Office, Burlington, Iowa
Read and listen to Mr. Bliss' interview with the National Postal Museum by clicking here.
In his own words...
"We were always in the mail car...but you knew something happened every time, because they pulled the train down into emergency and you would start dancing across the floor."
Mr Bliss commenting on dangerous situations that
occurred while working the mail on a moving train.
