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Owner: Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac
Model:EMD E8ABuilt As:RFP 1011 (E8A)
Serial Number:15716Order No:2050
Frame Number:2050-A6Built:8/1952
Notes:RFP Class E8A; blt 8/52
Other locos with this serial:  RFP 1011(E8A) AMTK 219(E8A)
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WATC 17, C-1, #3 of 3, c. 1953
Title:  WATC 17, C-1, #3 of 3, c. 1953
Description:  Here is the third of three successive original photos by Douglas C. Jones that were taken at the Ivy City Yard in Washington, D.C., c. 1953. Prominent here is the Washington Terminal Company's engine #17, a C-1 (0-8-0) switcher built in the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Erecting & Machine Shop during January of 1927. Visible at the right is an unidentified Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric locomotive; beyond it is the soon-to-be-obsolete Coaling Station.
Photo Date:  8/15/1953  Upload Date: 6/21/2021 6:51:36 AM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  WATC 18(0-8-0) WATC 17(0-8-0) RFP 1011(E8A)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
WATC Ivy City Yard, c. 1953
Title:  WATC Ivy City Yard, c. 1953
Description:  Here is an original photo by Douglas C. Jones that was taken at the Ivy City Yard in Washington, D.C., c. 1953. Prominent here are several diesel-electric locomotives belonging to the Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac Railroad; among them are (L to R) engines #1011 and #1010. Both are E-8's built by GM-EMD in August of 1952 and rated at 2,250 horsepower each. Visible at the left is an unidentified Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 locomotive; beyond it is the soon-to-be-obsolete Coaling Station.
Photo Date:  8/15/1953  Upload Date: 6/20/2021 10:13:47 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard,Signal
Locomotives:  RFP 1011(E8A) RFP 1010(E8A)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
RF&P 1011 With Tr. 33, The Silver Comet
Title:  RF&P 1011 With Tr. 33, The Silver Comet
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/22/1968  Upload Date: 8/14/2011 10:45:19 AM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 1011(E8A)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
RF&P 1011 with Silver Comet in 1968
Title:  RF&P 1011 with Silver Comet in 1968
Description:  Tr #33
Photo Date:  9/22/1968  Upload Date: 11/11/2006 10:02:34 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 1011(E8A)
Views:  630   Comments: 1
RF&P 137 with Considerable Help in August 1969
Title:  RF&P 137 with Considerable Help in August 1969
Description:  Five units lead this Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac RR Co. freight through Ashland, Virginia on August 22, 1969: Nos. 137, 127, 125, 1011, 101 which respectively are a GP35, GP40, GP40, E8A, and GP7.
Photo Date:  8/22/1969  Upload Date: 11/11/2006 10:02:26 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 137(GP35) RFP 127(GP40) RFP 125(GP40) RFP 1011(E8A) RFP 101(GP7)
Views:  1514   Comments: 5
An All EMD Lash Up
Title:  An All EMD Lash Up
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/22/1969  Upload Date: 7/30/2011 2:15:09 AM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 137(GP35) RFP 127(GP40) RFP 125(GP40) RFP 1011(E8A) RFP 101(GP7)
Views:  1054   Comments: 0
SCL 572 & RFP 1011 accelerating.
Title:  SCL 572 & RFP 1011 accelerating.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/1/1969  Upload Date: 3/22/2008 12:37:56 AM
Location:  Savannah, GA
Author:  Howard Shapiro
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SCL 572(E7A) RFP 1011(E8A)
Views:  855   Comments: 1
SCL 572 & RFP 1011
Title:  SCL 572 & RFP 1011
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/1/1969  Upload Date: 3/22/2008 12:10:53 AM
Location:  Savannah, GA
Author:  Howard Shapiro
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SCL 572(E7A) RFP 1011(E8A)
Views:  1017   Comments: 1
RF&P 1011
Title:  RF&P 1011
Description:  A late-running Amtrak train #85, the Champion, pulled by E-units from RF&P, L&N and UP, passes the Callahan depot. RF&P 1011 was later Amtrak 219:1. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/29/2008 4:50:06 PM
Location:  Callahan, FL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RFP 1011(E8A)
Views:  1271   Comments: 3


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