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Thomas C. Ayers's Collection
 
7/5/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac
Model:EMD E8ABuilt As:RFP 1011 (E8A)
Serial Number:15716Order No:2050
Frame Number:2050-A6Built:8/1952
Notes:RFP Class E8A; blt 8/52
Other locos with this serial:  RFP 1011(E8A)
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WATC 17, C-1, #3 of 3, c. 1953
Title:  WATC 17, C-1, #3 of 3, c. 1953
Description:  Here is the third of three successive original photos by Douglas C. Jones that were taken at the Ivy City Yard in Washington, D.C., c. 1953. Prominent here is the Washington Terminal Company's engine #17, a C-1 (0-8-0) switcher built in the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Erecting & Machine Shop during January of 1927. Visible at the right is an unidentified Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric locomotive; beyond it is the soon-to-be-obsolete Coaling Tipple.
Photo Date:  8/15/1953  Upload Date: 6/21/2021 6:51:36 AM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  WATC 18(0-8-0) WATC 17(0-8-0) RFP 1011(E8A)
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WATC Ivy City Yard, c. 1953
Title:  WATC Ivy City Yard, c. 1953
Description:  Here is an original photo by Douglas C. Jones that was taken at the Ivy City Yard in Washington, D.C., c. 1953. Among the six diesel-electric locomotives pictured here are (R to L) Richmond, Fredericksburg, & Potomac Railroad engines #1010 and #1011. Both are E8A's built by GM-EMD in August of 1952 and rated at 2,250 horsepower each. Visible in the left background is the soon-to-be-obsolete Coaling Tipple.
Photo Date:  8/15/1953  Upload Date: 6/18/2025 12:37:40 AM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Thomas C. Ayers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  RFP 1010(E8A) RFP 1011(E8A)
Views:  81   Comments: 0


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