George Bangs

George Bangs (February 28, 1826 – November 21, 1877) was an American who developed the railroad mail car and was the General Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service from 1871 to 1876. He was also an advocate of "fast mail" and, in his 1874 report, he reported the need for a fast and exclusive mail train "designed to expedite the movement of mail from the east to the west and cover the distance in about twenty-four hours". In March 1869, George Buchanan Armstrong, the then-superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, moved to Washington, D.C. and Bangs was made assistant superintendent until replacing Armstrong in Washington, D.C. upon Armstrong's death in 1871.