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| Title: |
RFP 7 |
| Description: |
Back in 1979, Potomac Yard was a busy place, though today you'd be hard pressed to prove it. RF&P used slug sets to work the hump, as seen here from Amtrak's Crescent. The slug appears to be from a modified Alco switcher. |
| Photo Date: |
7/30/1979 Upload Date: 12/29/2013 11:04:31 PM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
RFP 7(SW1500) |
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257 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Northbound |
| Description: |
A northbound RF&P train passes Alexandria while the crowd awaits the arrival of the Hagerstown excursion train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/16/1983 Upload Date: 11/17/2013 3:22:17 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 124(GP40) RFP 122(GP40) RFP 143(GP40-2) |
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631 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF&P 125 south |
| Description: |
A southbound rolls past Alexandria early in the morning. RF&P is notable for several things, among others that their odd numbered units faced south, even numbered units faced north. |
| Photo Date: |
7/16/1983 Upload Date: 11/17/2013 3:23:16 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 125(GP40) RFP 123(GP40) RFP 81(SW1200) RFP 138(GP35) |
| Views: |
490 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF&P north |
| Description: |
RF&P train heads past Staples Mill Road en route to Potomac Yard shortly after leaving Richmonds Acca Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1983 Upload Date: 6/29/2011 12:26:36 AM |
| Location: |
Richmond (Amtrak), VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 144(GP40-2) RFP 147(GP40-2) RFP 131(GP35) |
| Views: |
711 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF&P 141 |
| Description: |
A souhbound RF&P train passes a stopped northbound Amtrak at Alexandria on the morning of the NRHS steam ferry trip. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/17/2013 3:32:33 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 141(GP40-2) RFP 127(GP40) RFP 126(GP40) |
| Views: |
642 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Southbound quick turn |
| Description: |
RF&P got pretty good untilization out of their power. This set went north through Alexandria this same morning. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/18/2013 1:24:35 AM |
| Location: |
Richmond, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 143(GP40-2) RFP 122(GP40) RFP 124(GP40) |
| Views: |
762 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
From the rear platform |
| Description: |
I was able to ride the rear platform on the obs during the trip to Richmond. Great place to see the action. Heres a northbound R&P train we met near Richmond |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/17/2013 3:36:57 AM |
| Location: |
Richmond, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 146(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
342 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Yard power |
| Description: |
The NRHS ferry trip was just about to Richmone when we passed this yard engine waiting on the northbound main. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/17/2013 3:40:44 AM |
| Location: |
Richmond, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 84(SW1200) |
| Views: |
292 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Station switcher |
| Description: |
RF&P assigned this SW to the Amtrak station |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/18/2013 1:16:05 AM |
| Location: |
Richmond, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 84(SW1200) |
| Views: |
270 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Easrly morning southbound |
| Description: |
I jumped off the DC bound Cardinal to catch some of the Alexandria action. At the time, Potomac Yard was still a big gateway, and the RF&P was an important player. Heres a shot of a light pole with a southbound merchandise train |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1984 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 1:48:03 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 127(GP40) RFP 126(GP40) RFP 146(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
403 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pot Yard bound |
| Description: |
A northbound RF&P pig train off the Seaboard passes Alexandria on its way to a Chessie connection. Trailing unit is in the new lettering |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1984 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 1:50:19 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 138(GP35) RFP 144(GP40-2) RFP 145(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
386 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Mixed set |
| Description: |
An RF&P unit leads a Chessie GP40 past the station at Alexandria. Off line power was not unheard of on the RF&P, but it could not lead due to the cab signal system they had in place. |
| Photo Date: |
3/24/1984 Upload Date: 6/24/2014 1:55:22 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 141(GP40-2) BO 4188(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
327 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dark side |
| Description: |
I must have dozed off in the car. This was not uncommon, as I worked nights most of the time, and would head out on a railfan trip after working til midnight or so. By the middle of the next day, I was pretty tired, and the sitting that goes with railfanning would put me out-til a train showed!! Heres a southbound RF&P train passing Alexandria, caught on the run at the station. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 12/1/2014 2:00:17 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 133(GP35) RFP 124(GP40) |
| Views: |
398 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling for Richmond |
| Description: |
A southbound RF&P train is passing the Alexandria station as it makes its way to AF and then to Richmond for a Seaboard connection. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/27/2014 4:03:51 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 136(GP35) RFP 133(GP35) RFP 141(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
658 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pigs north |
| Description: |
The RF&P was a slingshot for trains in both directions, a quick ride from the DC area and northeastern connections, to Rickmond and the south. Heres a northbound approaching a crossing in Woodbridge VA |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/24/2014 11:31:55 PM |
| Location: |
Woodbridge, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 145(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
378 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ununsual yard power |
| Description: |
RF&P was one of several roads that used slugs in their yards, though it was not a universal practice. Heres a hump set with a CR caboose at Potomac Yard in Alexandria a few years before the yard would be closed and the area redeveloped. You would not recognize it now. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/24/2014 11:29:25 PM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 7(SW1500) RFP S1(Road Slug) |
| Views: |
558 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF&P southbound |
| Description: |
RF&P train 101 heads through the DC suburbs en route to a Florida connection at Richmond |
| Photo Date: |
7/8/1986 Upload Date: 7/20/2011 1:44:50 AM |
| Location: |
Springfield, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 143(GP40-2) RFP 134(GP35) RFP 146(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
701 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Headed south past the station |
| Description: |
A southbound RF&P train rolls past the Alexandria station with 97 cars in the early morning haze of the Potomac valley. The DC Metro King St station is at far right. Great place to watch the action. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/22/2015 4:46:55 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 121(GP40) RFP 141(GP40-2) RFP 142(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
580 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Local headed in |
| Description: |
A local rolls through AF on its way back to Potomac Yard, its caboose right behind. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:54:55 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 123(GP40) |
| Views: |
343 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The day is beginning |
| Description: |
A hazy start for this local on the RF&P, rolling past AF en route to its adventure |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/24/2015 4:48:52 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 123(GP40) |
| Views: |
190 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pigs south |
| Description: |
In the 80s, containerization had not taken over the intermodal world to the extent it has today. This 79 car train of TOFC flats was typical, seen passing the Alexandria station. To the right, a DC Metro train rolls out of the King St station, making this photo truly intermodal. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/22/2015 4:48:21 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 134(GP35) RFP 133(GP35) RFP 126(GP40) |
| Views: |
442 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Long hood first |
| Description: |
This configuration was not the typical one for the RF&P, unlike its Virginia brethren N&W and Southern. Every once in a while a unit would get backwards. Today its the leader on this 52 car southbound, passing the Alexandria passenger station. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/24/2015 4:50:59 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 138(GP35) RFP 125(GP40) RFP 146(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
449 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking one south |
| Description: |
This RF&P train was borrowing a Chessie unit for this van train to Richmond. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:57:19 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 143(GP40-2) BO 4438(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
366 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Northbound pigs |
| Description: |
I believe this was train 100, rolling north into Potomac Yard with 28 trailer flats. RF&P was peculiar in that even units faced north, odd units faced south, as seen here. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/8/2015 12:34:37 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 126(GP40) RFP 143(GP40-2) RFP 145(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
450 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Add on |
| Description: |
RF&P had a cab signalling system that was not compatible with anything else, and off line power was not equipped with it, even major connection SCL. This is why you never see foreign power leading there. Train 171 is south at AF with an RF&P leader, added at Potomac Yard just to the north. Looks like the railroad was anticipating a quick turn on the power-RF&P got pretty good utilization, and it was not unusual to see the same power twice in a day-since they added a unit on the rear of the consist as well. The extra power will surely not be needed to roll the train's 96 cars over the RF&P's profile. Of note, three years from the CSX merger, the renumbering has taken hold in earnest. All three CSX units have been renumbered into the 6000's, with the 6531 already repainted. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/8/2015 1:00:32 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 127(GP40) CSX 6531(GP40) CSX 6545(GP40) CSX 6222(GP40-2) RFP 144(GP40-2) |
| Views: |
833 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Got the juice |
| Description: |
OJT, the Tropicana orange juice train, rolls north at AF. Typically, even numbered units faced north; somehow 138 got turned and is running backward. The train will terminate at Tropicana's Kearny NJ distribution center, where trucks will take the juice throughout the northeast. The cars will return south as they are unloaded, and are not returned as a unit train. |
| Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/8/2015 12:41:19 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 138(GP35) RFP 121(GP40) RFP 131(GP35) |
| Views: |
491 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF&P leader |
| Description: |
RF&P had a cab signalling system that was not compatible with anything else, so its units had to lead between Alexandria and Richmond until CSX equipped enough of its own units to lead on this segment after it acquired the RF&P. Here a former RF&P unit leads 85 cars northbound past the Alexandria station. |
| Photo Date: |
8/30/1994 Upload Date: 6/19/2012 1:05:26 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6858(GP40) CSX 6233(GP40-2) CSX 6113(GP40-2) CSX 8051(SD40-2) |
| Views: |
862 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Vanquished |
| Description: |
An RF&P unit, renumbered and shorn of its markings, sits in Potomac Yard, itself soon to be a memory. Seen from the Washington Metro train. |
| Photo Date: |
8/30/1994 Upload Date: 6/19/2012 1:08:39 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CSX 6859(GP40) |
| Views: |
484 Comments: 0 |
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