RFP 601 Governor Patrick Henry Washington DC yards. Date unknown.

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Fred Stuckmann	General	Nice find and great stats too.	3/20/2012 2:51:39 PM

Geneva Short	General	Good Stuff, Wendy - thanks for putting these up! Interesting how they had a pipe to catch the stack smoke and (at least try to) pump it out of the shop.	3/20/2012 5:27:15 PM

Dennis Weber	General	I Agree With Fred .	3/20/2012 5:36:25 PM

Gary Everhart	General	Those were the days! Great photo, Wendy!	3/21/2012 5:28:56 AM

Bryant Mills	General	Thanks for posting this, Wendy! I worked for RF&P until the CSX takeover; as a matter of fact I was the last RF&P dispatcher, 20 years ago last January. It was a fine little railroad. Didn't get to see any of these, though.	3/24/2012 10:50:38 PM

Nick Chillianis	General	This appears to be the Ivy City engine terminal in DC. The massive coaling tower gives it away. The pipe over the stack was a "smoke scrubber". N&W and PRR used similar devices at their engine facilities.	11/11/2018 9:29:40 PM

RFP 601 Governor Patrick Henry Washington DC yards. Date unknown.
In 1938, six more 4-8-4s were acquired from Baldwin (road numbers 601 through 606). Each was named for a Virginia governor. These locomotives had 77" drivers, 27 x 30 cylinders, a 260 psi boiler pressure, a tractive effort of 62,800 lbs and weighed 408,400 pounds.
Date: 3/20/2012	Location: Washington D.C., DC	Views: 1027	Collection Of: Wendy Crim
Locomotives: RFP 601(4-8-4)			Author: Wendy Crim

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