On a hazy summer morning, RF&P Train No. 276 gets underway from Acca Yard for its run to Potomac Yard. When their days in passenger service had ended, the RF&P used its E8 diesels in freight service. Here an E8 leads two GP7's and a GP40 on the northbound freight.
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