When I was a boy in the 1950s, the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad tracks ran close to our house and I remember watching both freight and passenger trains pass by. Some were pulled by steam locomotives. The last steam powered RF&P passenger train left Washington's Union station in 1954 bound for Richmond, Virginia. It would have passed by my house.
The RF&P was chartered in 1834 and was finally acquired by CSX and merged into their system in 1991.
Two pieces of RF&P equipment, owned by the Old Dominion Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society are preserved in Dillwyn on the Buckingham Branch Railroad.
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