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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac
Model:EMD SW1500Built As:RFP 7 (SW1500)
Serial Number:33289Order No:4521
Frame Number:4521-3Built:10/1967
Other locos with this serial:  RFP 7(SW1500) SB 7(SW1500) PBNE 7(SW1500) LVRM 7(SW1500)
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RFP 7
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
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Locomotives:  RFP 7(SW1500)
Views:  257   Comments: 1
Ununsual yard power
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:  561   Comments: 0


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