“OBS Variety Pack”
There were precious few vantage points along the B&O’s Philadelphia or Washington Subdivisions to get a broadside view of a 5-unit lashup. And, save a train actually <... (more)

Conrail and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac had a short-lived run-through train between Allentown, Pennsylvania and Richmond, Virginia. The train ran on the former Reading to Philadelphia... (more)

“Loose Caboose”
No longer wearing its “Linking NORTH and SOUTH” herald, RF&P caboose 923 (built 12/1970 by Southern Iron & Equipment) had wandered off home rails with the Ringling... (more)

“RF&P Samich”
Or is it a Seaboard System Sandwich? At any rate, a pair of RF&P locomotives bookends a trio of Seaboard System B36-7s on CSX 0171, the Orange Blossom Special-Sou... (more)

“Got Horsepower?”
Five units, totaling 13,750 hp, lead the Orange Blossom Special west, about halfway between the BRADSHAW and LORELEY intermediates on the former B&O Philadelphia... (more)

“Ten O’Clock Low”
CSX 0171 (OBSS), with RF&P GP40-2 141 plus three, is westbound at Rossville interlocking on CSX's (former B&O) Philadelphia Subdivision. The conductor appears to be al... (more)

RF&P 1002 has seen better days. This streamliner once wore the RF&P's gray and blue scheme and hauled passenger around Washington D.C and Richmond. Today its owned by the Virginia Museum of Transp... (more)

An RF&P TOFC train heads south past Potomac Yards. This train was most likely 171, the Orange Blossom Special. 171 originated on Conrail in South Kearny, NJ and terminated in Tampa, FL on... (more)

The units were 137 (GP35), 127 (GP40), 125 (GP40), 1011 (E8A), and 101 (GP7).

At 14:38, a late-running Orange Blossom Special-South, with RF&P GP40 121 plus two additional, is westbound approaching Poplar (mp 82.5) on CSX's (former B&O) Philadelphia Sub on September 26, 198... (more)

An RF&P E unit sits in storage at the Roanoke yard lashed up with an old Conrail still in it's paint. I am unsure of the future plans for this locomotive, but hopefully it will one day be restored... (more)

RF&P 146 leads the "Orange Juice Train" through the Fredericksburg area.

This is another example of a beautiful Northern built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the RF&P, number 610, the Governor Fitzhugh Lee. The order was for six locomotives, 607 - 612. I noticed... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin Locomotive Works, and would give our father different builder's cards when he would see him. Today I found out that my ... (more)

“Sunrise Orange Blossom”
On December 15, 1985 at 07:30, eleven minutes after a 07:19 sunrise, the OBSS (Orange Blossom Special-South), led by RF&P GP40-2 142, is westbound on track 1 cro... (more)