A trio of General Electric power leads Train L033 south through Doswell. October 2011.

A pair of AC4400's lead a long line of empties west along the old C&O line in Doswell, VA. October 2011.

On a relatively warm Feb. 20, 1983 northbound RF&P "Through Freight" No. 120 was picking up a unit coal train from the C&O Pass Track at Doswell, en-route to the Virginia Power Generating Station ... (more)

These were regulars on the Auto Train in their latter years.

The Silver Comet

Crossing the old C&O Piedmont Division main is this NB train on an extremely hot and muggy day. Odd that RF&P sprung for a whole bunch of these really well built towers and apparently they never ... (more)

CSX Train L173-29 rolls through Doswell just south of the Diamond where the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad crossed over the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. April 2011.

CSX Local train D794 operates between Richmond & Fredericksburg, VA and has just picked up an additional load of cars up on Track 4 in the Doswell Yard and is now on the main line headed back to A... (more)

Buckingham Branch engines 9 & 3 sit under the clouds waiting for rain that will mostly avoid the yard this afternoon. May 2011.

With storms off to the right and sunshine off to the left, Amtrak Auto Train #53 passes through Doswell VA on its route to Florida. May 2011.

TOFC business on the RF&P really started to mushroom in the early 1970s, much in part because of UPS. The piggyback ramp at Potomac Yard became increasingly important, with most of the southbound... (more)

Southern Railway was part owner of RF&P, and when their steam train needed to be ferried between Alexandria and Richmond, they used the RF&P. On a typically steamy July 28, 1973, Southern 2-8-2 N... (more)

RF&P FP7 No. 1202 was leading an E8A and two GP units as manifest No. 109 passed through Doswell, VA on Nov. 13, 1971. RF&P was extremely short of power in 1971 and part of 1972 and some E8As wer... (more)

RF&P GP40 No. 125 was leading two FP7As and another GP40 on the head end of southbound manifest No. 105 as it passed through Doswell, VA on Nov. 13, 1971. Soon, the delivery of RF&P's GP40-2s wou... (more)

It was early evening on August 13, 1985 and a late eastbound C&O manifest No. 794 was banging across the RF&P main line at Doswell, VA with lone B30-7 No. 8280 for power. No. 794 usually rated tw... (more)