The REA had a monopoly and unique setup whereby it was the sole express business to move goods via rail and the railroads transported freight cars. The REA shipped a wide variety of products ...

To keep up with the times, the new agency added refrigerated cars and, after World War II, ... And REA Express was bleeding money at the rate of $50 million a year. Advertisement.

The final years of REA Express saw the sad decline of a company that was once the world’s largest surface transportation network. In 1971, the company sued its former railroad owners for driving ...

Nature and vandals have taken their toll on the American Railway Express Company (later the Railway Express Agency, Inc) depot on Curtiss Street adjacent to the Central Terminal. The two-story ...