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RFP 131
Title:  RFP 131
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/13/1969  Upload Date: 10/19/2008 10:16:26 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 131(GP35)
Views:  606   Comments: 0
RF&P 1007
Title:  RF&P 1007
Description:  Date Unknown
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/14/2011 10:44:52 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 1007(E8A)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
RF&P 1001 With Silver Meteor Paaing Potomac Yard
Title:  RF&P 1001 With Silver Meteor Paaing Potomac Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/29/1970  Upload Date: 7/30/2011 2:15:44 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 1001(E8A)
Views:  784   Comments: 0
All RF&P Odd Numbered Engines and Faced South
Title:  All RF&P Odd Numbered Engines and Faced South
Description:  At Potomac Yard
Photo Date:  4/29/1970  Upload Date: 7/30/2011 1:56:09 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 137(GP35) RFP 127(GP40) RFP 121(GP40) RFP 1007(E8A)
Views:  1985   Comments: 2
RFP 137
Title:  RFP 137
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/21/1970  Upload Date: 10/19/2008 10:16:27 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Eric Larson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 132(GP35) RFP 137(GP35)
Views:  670   Comments: 0
FGEC 6
Title:  FGEC 6
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/27/1970  Upload Date: 2/12/2009 11:42:44 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FGMR 6(Unknown)
Views:  795   Comments: 1
SOU 2300 with trailer oops
Title:  SOU 2300 with trailer oops
Description:  Kurt Reisweber photo
Photo Date:  4/7/1971  Upload Date: 2/13/2025 3:00:17 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Kurt Reisweber
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2300(SW1500)
Views:  34   Comments: 0
B&O 1455 With The George Washington
Title:  B&O 1455 With The George Washington
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/1971  Upload Date: 6/10/2008 10:37:35 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 1455(E9A)
Views:  813   Comments: 0
Southern Ry. 2795
Title:  Southern Ry. 2795
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/1971  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 12:45:53 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 2795(GP38)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
Southern's Tr. #17 Passes an Excursion
Title:  Southern's Tr. #17 Passes an Excursion
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/1971  Upload Date: 5/9/2007 7:20:51 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6130(FP7A) SOU 722(2-8-0)
Views:  955   Comments: 0
Southern 6130 With Train #17 and 722 With an Excursion
Title:  Southern 6130 With Train #17 and 722 With an Excursion
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/1971  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 12:52:17 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6130(FP7A) SOU 722(2-8-0)
Views:  1523   Comments: 0
Southern 722 and 750
Title:  Southern 722 and 750
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/1971  Upload Date: 5/9/2007 7:20:45 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 722(2-8-0) SOU 750(4-6-2)
Views:  3328   Comments: 0
Potopmac Yard Looking East at the East Hump and Across the Potomac
Title:  Potopmac Yard Looking East at the East Hump and Across the Potomac
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/14/1972  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 8:37:26 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  457   Comments: 1
Potomac Yard Looking West%Across the Missing Roundhouse at the West Hump
Title:  Potomac Yard Looking West%Across the Missing Roundhouse at the West Hump
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/14/1972  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 8:37:24 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  902   Comments: 1
SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Title:  SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 9/15/2011 1:19:58 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 592(E8A)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Title:  SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 9/15/2011 1:20:02 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 592(E8A)
Views:  514   Comments: 1
SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Title:  SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 9/15/2011 1:20:05 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 592(E8A)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Title:  SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 9/15/2011 1:20:08 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 592(E8A)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Title:  SCL 592 With Amtrak's SB Silver Star
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 9/15/2011 1:20:11 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 592(E8A)
Views:  405   Comments: 0
SCL 952 and Two Older Sisters lead Amtrak's Train #81 The Silver Star in 1972
Title:  SCL 952 and Two Older Sisters lead Amtrak's Train #81 The Silver Star in 1972
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 11/24/2006 8:47:05 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 592(E8A)
Views:  1668   Comments: 1
Southern Train #8 in 1972
Title:  Southern Train #8 in 1972
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 1:06:13 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6136(FP7A)
Views:  739   Comments: 1
Southern Train #7
Title:  Southern Train #7
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 1:06:15 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  1038   Comments: 0
Train #7
Title:  Train #7
Description:  Note the extra air hoses and the jumper cable door open. This train is about to become an intermodal train with multiple freight engines upfront and 50 or more piggybacks and other freignt cars behind. Southern decided not to join Amtrak and ran intermodal trains (except for the Southern Cresant) that made station stops. See http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=738818
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 1:06:15 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  1497   Comments: 1
Southern Train #7
Title:  Southern Train #7
Description:  See the Description with http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=738817
Photo Date:  3/15/1972  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 1:06:17 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6141(FP7A)
Views:  842   Comments: 0
B&O 1457
Title:  B&O 1457
Description:  Amtrak's George Washington approaches Alexandria with a short consist behind B&O E9 1457. Built as B&O #40, she would later become Amtrak 403:1.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 1:54:31 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 1457(E9A)
Views:  1669   Comments: 2
C&O 7520
Title:  C&O 7520
Description:  C&O freight headed for Potomac Yard via the Southern. C&O 7520 was later CSXT 8379, Utah Railway 9006, is extant as WSOR 4079. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 5:18:51 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 7520(SD40)
Views:  996   Comments: 0
RF&P 104
Title:  RF&P 104
Description:  Northbound TOFC headed for Potomac Yard led by one of RF&P's boiler Geeps. She was later rebuilt as RF&P 101:2, and is operated by the Old Dominon Chapter NRHS on the Buckingham Branch RR.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 5:38:42 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 104(GP7)
Views:  741   Comments: 0
RFP 1203
Title:  RFP 1203
Description:  Southbound freight out of Potomac Yard charges through Alexandria behind one of RF&P's three FP7s. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 2:11:38 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 1203(FP7A)
Views:  673   Comments: 1
RF&P 124
Title:  RF&P 124
Description:  RF&P GP40 #124, shown here on a northbound TOFC, was later CSXT 6858, then rebuilt to UP GP38M-3 2509, renumbered to UP 1009, is believed ex|ant as HLCX 1009. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 12:21:19 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 124(GP40)
Views:  933   Comments: 0
SCL 586
Title:  SCL 586
Description:  SCL E-units handle the northbound Silver Star at Alexandria. SCL 586 was ex-ACL 55L, exx-MKT 55B, nee-MKT 134, would later become Amtrak 244. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 1:23:14 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCL 917(GP7)
Views:  1215   Comments: 4
SOU 3014
Title:  SOU 3014
Description:  Southern freight departs Alexandria southbound. SD35s sandwich an SD24. Southern 3014 was later NS 3014. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 5:27:40 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3014(SD35)
Views:  826   Comments: 2
SOU 3033
Title:  SOU 3033
Description:  A northbound extra heads for Potomac Yard. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 1:10:03 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 3033(SD35)
Views:  856   Comments: 3
SOU 2135
Title:  SOU 2135
Description:  Southern's Piedmont gets underway out of Alexandria. The need for four units will become evident after the train picks up about 35-40 TOFC loads a few miles down the line. Date f photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 12:37:47 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6135(FP7A)
Views:  748   Comments: 1
SOU 6139
Title:  SOU 6139
Description:  The southbound Lynchburg local departs Alexandria. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 1:43:12 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6139(FP7A)
Views:  701   Comments: 2
SOU 6913
Title:  SOU 6913
Description:  The Southern Crescent approaches its station stop at Alexandria. The 6913 was built for Southern subsidiary New Orleans & Northeastern, was later NJT 4334, now SARX 6913 at the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum in Oak Ridge, TN, but in rough shape. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 12:28:43 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SOU 6913(E8A)
Views:  1329   Comments: 4
FGEX 6
Title:  FGEX 6
Description:  FGE's shop switcher shuffles some brand new RF&P boxcars.
Photo Date:  8/1/1972  Upload Date: 1/4/2014 9:41:42 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  FGEX 6(45Tonner)
Views:  1335   Comments: 4
PC Post, "The Flood," Page 9, 1972
Title:  PC Post, "The Flood," Page 9, 1972
Description:  Here are two more photos from page nine of the August-September 1972 special issue of the "Penn Central Post" about Hurricane Agnes and "The Flood." Left Photo Caption: "At Washington, Hal Lowe gets set to submerge for inspection of PC's Long Bridge." Right Photo Caption: "The diver's underwater reports come up by phone line into amplifier on boat, and are recorded by B&B Inspector Paul E. Lytle."
Photo Date:  8/1/1972  Upload Date: 7/8/2023 12:13:26 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives: 
Views:  57   Comments: 0
RF&P 132
Title:  RF&P 132
Description:  RF&P 132
Photo Date:  7/6/1973  Upload Date: 2/15/2012 6:36:15 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RFP 132(GP35)
Views:  450   Comments: 2
Amtrak 238
Title:  Amtrak 238
Description:  Amtrak 238, 373, 247
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 2/7/2020 5:37:53 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives:  AMTK 238(E8A)
Views:  504   Comments: 1
RF&P 127
Title:  RF&P 127
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 2/19/2016 10:18:53 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RFP 127(GP40)
Views:  340   Comments: 1
SR 6905
Title:  SR 6905
Description:  (Date approximate)
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 1/9/2012 12:10:20 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  820   Comments: 3
Southern 6905
Title:  Southern 6905
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 4/21/2020 12:44:51 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A)
Views:  426   Comments: 1
RF&P 146
Title:  RF&P 146
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 2/8/2013 10:42:52 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  RFP 146(GP40-2)
Views:  452   Comments: 2
AMT 238
Title:  AMT 238
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 5/21/2015 9:42:38 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 373(E8B)
Views:  476   Comments: 0
SR 2790
Title:  SR 2790
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 2/19/2012 5:26:25 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 2790(GP38)
Views:  518   Comments: 2
SR 6144
Title:  SR 6144
Description:  On a hazy day
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 3/11/2013 5:37:13 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6144(FP7A)
Views:  571   Comments: 3
RF&P 8
Title:  RF&P 8
Description:  RF&P 8, 135, 147 are on the point of an Amtrak train that had trouble soon after leaving the station.
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 1/14/2017 6:06:31 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  RFP 8(SW1500)
Views:  352   Comments: 7
AMT 234
Title:  AMT 234
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 12/20/2014 11:56:20 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 234(E8A)
Views:  461   Comments: 2
SCL 557
Title:  SCL 557
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 6/19/2015 5:30:18 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SCL 557(E7A)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
SR 6145
Title:  SR 6145
Description:  Thanks to Bob Hasty for informing me this is the "Lynchburg Special".
Photo Date:  7/7/1973  Upload Date: 4/11/2012 5:17:47 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6145(FP7A)
Views:  544   Comments: 4

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