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The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (reporting mark RFP) was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. The track is now the RF&P Subdivision of the CSX Transportation system; the original corporation is no longer a railroad company.
23 sie 2024 · The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac was not a large railroad. It connected only Washington, D.C. with Richmond, Virginia, a distance of just 113 miles. However, its strategic location provided numerous connections with key northern and southern systems.
Welcome to the online home of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Historical Society, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to promote and preserve the history of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad through education, historical and technical research, preservation, and modeling.
This was an informal organization that included representatives of railroads between Weldon, N.C., and Washington, D.C., originally the Petersburg Railroad Company, the RF&P, and the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Company, and later expanded to include other roads.
The RF&P/R&P Connection Railroad was built westward in 1867 from the R&P (later Atlantic Coast Line) station along what is today the path of the “Downtown Expressway”, including a two block long tunnel under 3rd and 4th Streets, to an intersection with the present Belvidere Street where it turned northward.
18 wrz 2020 · The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (R.F.& P. R.R.) was incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia on 25 February 1834. It was at the time the sixth railroad to be chartered in Virginia.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) was a rarity in Virginia. All other railroads chartered before the Civil War were intended to draw agricultural products from the Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley to a port city - Alexandria, Richmond, Petersburg, Portsmouth, or Norfolk.
