On June 1, 1887, a second railroad began service to the town of New Lisbon. On that date, the Pittsburgh, Marion and Chicago Railway began operations over a 25-mile line between New Lisbon and Darlington, PA. The most notable feature of that new railroad was the spectacular Elkton Trestle, 990 feet long and 104 feet high, located 3 miles east of New Lisbon (page header image above). A young engineer named Dan Jackson took the first train over that bridge (Image 2). Within a few years, Mr. Jackson left locomotive service to become mail clerk on the PM&C (Image 3). By 1898 Jackson had assumed mail clerk responsibilities on the Erie’s Niles/Lisbon line (Image 4), a position he would hold for many years. As mail clerk, Jackson was an employee of the US Post Office, Railway Mail Service--not a railroad employee. Daily he would ride the Railway Post Office car in the N&NL passenger trains up and down the line, picking up and setting out mail bags at each station along the way, and sorting letters and parcel post packages enroute. It was a demanding job, especially between nearby stations (for example, Washingtonville and Leetonia were only 3 miles apart). Mr. Jackson’s work was well appreciated (Images 5, Image 6, Image 7 & Image 8, Note: Jackson was not successful in his 1911 effort to replace Moore as Lisbon Postmaster). Jackson retired in 1920, after some 30 years of sorting mail on the railroad (Image 9). Image 10 (below) shows a postcard which was sorted in the RPO car as it traveled the Niles & Lisbon line on Wednesday July 16, 1913. The card contains news from Ann to Mrs. H. R. White in Hiram, Ohio regarding a horse with a toothache and a planned visit to Hiram in two weeks. The RPO and Railway Mail Service marks on the card were likely stamped by Mr. Jackson.