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By:Rob Furney Jr
Dates:5/5/2007 - 5/11/2007
Album Info:Some of the more interesting photos from one of my annual trips to VA.
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Broad Street Station
Title:  Broad Street Station
Description:  A beautiful piece of railroad architecture saved as a museum. Broad Street Station opened for business in 1919, and saw it's last train in 1975.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:07:41 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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RF&P's One
Title:  RF&P's One
Description:  RF&P's only business car, the One, now enjoys retirement behind Broad Street Station.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:09:12 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Rail travel at its finest
Title:  Rail travel at its finest
Description:  The rear of One. Imagine what it would be like to travel in such luxury. One is parked along with her former rider car, an old RF&P heavyweight Baggage car, and an old B&O bay window caboose.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:10:07 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Richmond streetcar
Title:  Richmond streetcar
Description:  An old Richmond Birney car sits under the main concourse. The streetcar is available for rides during museum hours.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:11:43 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Rear of Broad Street Station
Title:  Rear of Broad Street Station
Description:  The station has been heavily modified, but the basic structure still shows through. Looking SE, we can see the main concourse, domed lobby, and train shed.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:12:18 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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C&O K Class No. 2732
Title:  C&O K Class No. 2732
Description:  Old C&O Kanawha spared from the scrapper's torch, and the abuse and neglect of a inner-city park. 2732 whistles off every hour by way of a recording, and "steams" through a smoke machine located on her fireman's side for about 2 minutes.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:13:02 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CO 2732(2-8-4)
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Interbake Foods
Title:  Interbake Foods
Description:  Longtime neighbor of Broad Street, and a landmark of the West End, Interbake Foods still cranks out its famous "FFV" Cookies. The lighted and animated sign is neat to see at night.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:13:43 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Train shed at Broad Street Station
Title:  Train shed at Broad Street Station
Description:  Broad Street's dome rises grandly over what's left of the old train shed.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:14:17 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Bryan Park Shops
Title:  Bryan Park Shops
Description:  The old RF&P's Bryan Park servicing area.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:15:12 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 8781(SD60M) CSX 4447(GP40-2) CSX 2215(Road Slug) CSX 136(AC44CW) CSX 6402(GP40-2)
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Bryan Park Shops
Title:  Bryan Park Shops
Description:  After several disappointing visits to Bryan Park, I was pleasantly surprised to find a fair amount of engines at the shops today.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:23:59 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Bryan Park shops
Title:  Bryan Park shops
Description:  A mother and slug rest behind an AC4400 next to the shop building
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:24:55 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 2215(Road Slug)
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Bryan Park Shops
Title:  Bryan Park Shops
Description:  A vew of the large collection of MOW equipment that now calls Bryan Park home. Oh, and there's an SD60M in there, somewhere.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:26:59 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 8781(SD60M)
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A dying breed
Title:  A dying breed
Description:  I was amazed to find a genuine B36-7 at Bryan Park. When I was a kid, there were always several of these and other of the older GE's in Seaboard System paint back here. Now this is the first one I have seen at this location in 5 years or more.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:27:41 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 5834(B36-7)
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RF&P Paint Shop
Title:  RF&P Paint Shop
Description:  This building used to be the paint shop for the RF&P. It was also where GP7 101 was restored and repainted back in 1986. Now the tracks have been pulled up, and the building belogns to a private company.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:28:44 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
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Bryan Park Shops
Title:  Bryan Park Shops
Description:  The shop building at Bryan Park. I was there back in 1993 when the cranes came and took down the massive "RF&P" sign, and replaced it with this now faded CSX sign. It's never been the same here since.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:29:26 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
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More MOW equipment
Title:  More MOW equipment
Description:  More Maintenance of Way equipment lining the Bryan Park shops. Also take note of the remote control platform minding it's own business out there.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:30:26 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
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VEPCO Trolley Station
Title:  VEPCO Trolley Station
Description:  The old Virginia Electric Power Co. streetcar station at the University of Richmond (Westham). My Grandmother used to catch the trolley from here when she attended Westhampton College in the 1920s.
Photo Date:  5/7/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:31:51 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
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ACL James River Viaduct
Title:  ACL James River Viaduct
Description:  The old Atlantic Coast Line bridge over the James River. Still used by Amtrak and CSX, this is an impressive bridge to ride over. Also spans the Southern Railway (NS) on the South edge of the river, and both the C&O Railroad and C&O Canal on the North side.
Photo Date:  5/8/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:33:52 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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VEPCo Building
Title:  VEPCo Building
Description:  This was the first skyscraper in Richmond. So why is it on RRPicturearchives? When it was built it was the headquarters for VEPCo's Trolley system. A trolley station was located on the first floor, and main offices upstairs. Until the 1940s, large lights placed in cauldrons lit up the night sky from the top of the columns near the top of the building.
Photo Date:  5/8/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:34:37 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
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Main Street Station
Title:  Main Street Station
Description:  The Grande Dame of Richmond. It's hard to get good pictures of it smashed between I-95 and the C&O viaduct. This beauty from 1903 has survived floods, fires, and several changes of ownership, and is now open again as a passenger station, and is central to the city's plan of a revitalized "bottoms" district.
Photo Date:  5/8/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:35:35 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Rivanna Junction
Title:  Rivanna Junction
Description:  Here is where the C&O's James River Sub (at right) meets the C&O's Charlottesville line (left). The building right smack in the middle is home to some of the best pizza you will ever eat. Quality food, getting together with family, and primo trainwatching. Who could ask for more? Oh, and the triple track crossing is few blocks from here, and visible from the restaurant's second floor deck!
Photo Date:  5/8/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:36:08 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
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Main Street Station
Title:  Main Street Station
Description:  Main Street Station's landmark clock tower is visible from just about anywhere down in the bottoms, and stands in stark contrast to the modern skyscrapers that surround her. I was in Richmond two weeks after the tragic VPI shootings, hence the Commonwealth's flag at half mast.
Photo Date:  5/8/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:36:51 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
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Amtrak regional
Title:  Amtrak regional
Description:  P067 passes by Bottom's Up Pizza after a brief stop at Main St. Station.
Photo Date:  5/8/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:37:21 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  AMTK 139(P42DC)
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Amtrak regional
Title:  Amtrak regional
Description:  P067 screaches past the old tobacco warehouses that line the C&O's elevated tracks.
Photo Date:  5/8/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:37:54 PM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  AMTK 139(P42DC)
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RF&P/C&O junction
Title:  RF&P/C&O junction
Description:  The closed down and boarded up sentry of the RF&P and C&O crossing in Doswell
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:39:07 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Doswell "Union" Depot
Title:  Doswell "Union" Depot
Description:  This beautiful, yet small, station sat in the middle of the junction and served both the RF&P and C&O until 1971. Since then it has served as crew offices.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:40:01 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Doswell Yard
Title:  Doswell Yard
Description:  A pair of Buckingham Branch locomotives while away a hot and lazy afternoon in Doswell.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:40:59 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  BB 11(GP10)
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"Service Customers Like"...
Title:  "Service Customers Like"...
Description:  or "Smooth Cushioned Load", take your pick. Either works from the line that was "Pulling For You..." A pure Seaboard Coast Line boxcar sits in the yard at Doswell. What a catch!
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:42:40 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Buckingham Branch local
Title:  Buckingham Branch local
Description:  A BBRR local freight rolled in to the yard just as I was leaving. It pulled off the main just in time too, as a westbound CSX empty hopper train smashed through the diamonds at a high rate of speed.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:43:49 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  BB 10(GP10)
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Buckingham Branch local
Title:  Buckingham Branch local
Description:  The second unit on the local, an old GP16 from the SCL. The GP16s were rebuilt from older GP9s, GP18s, and F7s at the old ACL Uceta Shops in Tampa, FL.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/23/2007 10:45:00 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  BB 2(GP16)
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Doswell Yard
Title:  Doswell Yard
Description:  An old Uceta-built GP16 now serves under the Buckingham Branch. Resting at the Doswell interchange yard.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 10:57:53 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  BB 8(GP16)
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Local run from Acca
Title:  Local run from Acca
Description:  A small local CSX freight waits at Doswell for the clear signal to return to Acca. This is a daily local out of the old RF&P yard that works the BBRR junction.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 10:58:40 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 5496(ES44DC)
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Doswell Union Depot
Title:  Doswell Union Depot
Description:  I would love to be able to see the inside of this old depot. It is off limits to the public as it now serves as both a regional office for CSX maintenance crews, and yard offices for the Buckingham Branch RR.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 10:59:23 PM
Location:  Doswell, VA
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The old RF&P station
Title:  The old RF&P station
Description:  Ashland's depot is still as beautiful and distinctive today as it was when it was built.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:00:11 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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The depot, Henry Clay Inn, and RF&P main
Title:  The depot, Henry Clay Inn, and RF&P main
Description:  A classic old "downtown" feeling. Looking at this picture you would never know the Henry Clay is actually just 12 years old.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:01:01 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Downtown
Title:  Downtown
Description:  A storm is moving in quickly. Of note in this picture is the crossing gaurd at the intersection of Railroad Ave. and England St. Traffic has become so dense on the little 2 lane road that these gaurds are needed to assist the many school busses that come through town. You can imagine who has the right of way. They also serve to prevent cars from gridlocking over the railroad, but are only present during the times the school busses are running.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:01:50 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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The Juice
Title:  The Juice
Description:  CSX K650 roars Northbound on Track 2.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:02:44 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 5016(AC60CW)
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CSX 5016
Title:  CSX 5016
Description:  Storm clouds build as the AC6000s rush past the old depot with the Tropicana Juice Train.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:15:43 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 5016(AC60CW)
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More juice
Title:  More juice
Description:  Some of the cars on K650
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:16:18 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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The Doswell switcher
Title:  The Doswell switcher
Description:  The local freight seen waiting at Doswell now races the storm back to Richmond. The lightning was bad enough to cause problems with the already troublesome signals on the old RF&P main.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:17:12 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 5496(ES44DC)
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Heading for home
Title:  Heading for home
Description:  The Doswel shifter passing the depot.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:17:56 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 311(AC44CW) CSX 5496(ES44DC)
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Buckingham Branch
Title:  Buckingham Branch
Description:  My first shot of some BBRR rolling stock. Probably pase to those of you living up that way, but this was my first opportunity to photograph some BBRR equipment, so I took full advantage.
Photo Date:  5/9/2007  Upload Date: 10/24/2007 11:18:38 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Morning Pigs
Title:  Morning Pigs
Description:  A northbound intermodal train shatters the early morning stillness.
Photo Date:  5/10/2007  Upload Date: 4/29/2008 8:04:44 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
Author:  Rob Furney Jr
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Locomotives:  CSX 5418(ES44DC)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Northbound
Title:  Northbound
Description:  The train makes its way toward "downtown" Ashland.
Photo Date:  5/10/2007  Upload Date: 4/29/2008 8:09:03 PM
Location:  Ashland, VA
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