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Potomac Yard is a neighborhood in Northern Virginia that straddles southeastern Arlington County and northeastern Alexandria, Virginia, located principally in the area between U.S. Route 1 and the Was
Potomac Yard as a rail yard in the 1980s
Potomac Yard as a mixed-use neighborhood in 2021
Potomac Yard, circa 1917
Potomac Yard shopping center (2014).
The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. state of Virginia, connecting Richmond to Washington, D.C. The track is now the RF&P Subdivision of the CSX Transportation
Potomac Yard
…until abandoned in 1886. Railroad development in the area began in the 1850s, though stymied by political concerns and by the American Civil War. The Alexandria and Washington Railroad began service on a new rail line between Long Bridge and Alexandria in 1857. Order to the region's mishmash of active and abandoned rail lines and…
A Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad freight train passing through Doswell, Virginia, in 1969
The Florida Special hauled by RF&P locomotives north of Ashland, VA on January 12, 1969
RF&P train starting out from Richmond, Virginia, in 1865.
CSX 1836 in Covington, Virginia.