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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
1/24/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac
Model:EMD GP40-2Built As:RFP 146 (GP40-2)
Serial Number:72702-6Order No:72702
Frame Number:72702-6Built:9/1972
Notes:to CSXT 6398
Other locos with this serial:  CSX 6398(GP38-2) CSX 6398(GP40-2) RFP 146(GP40-2) CSX 6515(GP40-3)
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From the rear platform
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:  430   Comments: 0
RF&P southbound
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:  846   Comments: 1
Long hood first
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:  598   Comments: 0


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