EASTERN RAILROAD PERILS-RF&P, SEABOARD, CHESSIE AND MORE...
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2024
- Fascinating color films of the RF&P, Seaboard, Chessie and early Amtrak in the 1970's into the 1980's!
The Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac, or RF&P, was a 113-mile long double-tracked bridge line that neatly linked northern and southern roads together. This presentation brings the last 20-years of that roads independence to your screen with GPs, F-Units and E-units!
The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies, and little-known "could-have-been" mergers, of that era are explained. This was the virtual "minefield" that Chessie and the Seaboard had to operate in. They both emerged in good shape for their eventual merger into the CSX.
Scenes from our movie "Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame" available at www.cspmovies.com 
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Great video, most of those scenes were shot in my old stomping grounds of Alexandria. Grew up right down the street from Potomac Yard. My neighbor used to work there. As a kid/teenager in the 80s we used to hop on slow moving freights at Telegraph Rd. and ride them up to Braddock Rd where the PotYard began. Thanks for the great memories!
THANK YOU FOR DETAIL VIDEO
I worked for NS (hired out on Sou. Ry in 79) in Alexandria in the early 80’s, and boy what a show the RF&P put on back then! They always saw to it that odd numbered engines were pointed south, even numbers north. And their switchers, as I remember, were geared for mainline speeds, and they wouldn’t hesitate for a minute to put a switcher in a consist if they were short on road engines for whatever reason! The statement about C&O freight trains not running through Pot yard isn’t entirely true. C&O (and CSX later) had a trackage rights agreement with Southern (NS later) between Orange, Va. near Charlottesville and Pot yard. I believe by my years up there it was mostly just coal trains, and I remember working Southerns Van Dorn street piggyback yard in the middle of the night, and a northbound C&O coal drag was approaching CR Tower at speed but the dispatcher couldn’t get the crew to answer the radio to advise they’d be facing a stop signal! A trainmaster and I stood by the mainline throwing ballast at the cab of the lead unit trying to wake up the crew! It evidently worked, as the train suddenly went into emergency immediately after we’d stoned it! Those were great times in the railfan world though!
I remember the Orange Blossom Special, I still go down to ACCA yard in Richmond. I know people that works in machinist shop and road foreman. Richmond turned the RF&P station into a science museum which still has an RF&P Steam on display.
Those green and white covered wagons are beautiful!
Ah, the clean, balanced lines of non-dynamic brake equipped GP40s..
Amazing. You even know the Caboose was former Clinchfield. Damn bro how u know these things?
I was at Doswell in 1979 and the old general store there was still open. We even went inside. An old relic of the past. Photoed an RFP train there too.
The Richmond, Frederick and Potomac was a railroad that also hosted Amtrak auto Train. Also, this video has several ads inserted from Google, RUclips ad servers
Steel on steel , nice comparison.