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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) |
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723 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) |
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637 Comments: 0 |
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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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756 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) |
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627 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) |
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432 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) |
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272 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF&P car |
| Description: |
This caboose was tucked in behind the power on a local headed toward Pot Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/21/2015 3:40:32 AM |
| Location: |
Alexandria, VA |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 123(GP40) |
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456 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Capitol dome |
| Description: |
There were still a few of these units riding around in the mid 80s, even as Chessie was about to disappear into the Bright Future of CSX. This one is trailing on a B&O train passing Conrails Anacostia tower in DC. . |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/28/2014 2:00:36 AM |
| Location: |
Washington D.C., DC |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
BO 4031(GP40) BO 4061(GP40) RFP 124(GP40) |
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663 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Orange Blossom Special |
| Description: |
Seaboard, RF&P and Chessie revived an old passenger train name to boost a pair of intermodal trains between Jersey and Florida. It was easy to spot, as it had RF&P power leading north of Richmond, due to the cab signalling unique to them. The power often ran through to Jersey, as on this days edition, seen at Anacostia in DC. Check out the Conrail IH maintenance truck at left. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1986 Upload Date: 11/28/2014 2:10:49 AM |
| Location: |
Washington D.C., DC |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
RFP 124(GP40) BO 4061(GP40) BO 4031(GP40) |
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529 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
598 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: |
780 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: |
565 Comments: 1 |
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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) |
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586 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) |
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1005 Comments: 0 |
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