I lived off of Glebe Road in the early 1980s while in grad school and was later involved with the transfer of the property to CSX. I remember listening to the hump yard at night and seeing representatives of every eastern and southern railroad there jogging along Four Mile Run. The RF&P is still near and dear to my heart. Thanks.

How I wish this was there now, instead of the monstrous shopping centers that sprawl. Trains symbolize the long-gone pride of American manufacturing, industry, and pride. Before we were a service economy, men made things - and men were men.

Thanks for posting. I worked there for a while. Was my dream job I got to realize. Even saw a bunch of the work I was involved in on these videos.

Many east coast short lines i hadn't seen before. Thanks for sharing.

Great video! Really enjoy watching the consist of the trains go by. Back when RR's actually advertised on their rolling stock.

Big difference from then and now. Most people wouldn't even know the yard was there at one time.

@cameronriccio6050

3 жыл бұрын

There’s zero trace. The only remainder is some abandoned riveted track with the date “1945” stamped on it and an old shed

A scene now long past. I railfan the RF&P Sub and now Potomac Yard is gone completely.

Great video! I spent many hours at those locations, thanks for sharing!

Wow so different from today

excellent documentation thank you.

Man... that was hard to watch. I can vividly remember going by there right before the end on Psgr trains.

The recreational path that parallels the current main is a good place to watch.

17:07 old centenary supports

rare APL Linertrain TOFC flatcar! 14:59

The Potomac yards is extent like the dinosaurs are they may b gone but not forgotten

No insane graffiti back in the early 1990's. Very little graffiti at all.

i was looking at this video on 9;08 the was a box car had mmid is that maryland midland railroad box car from union bridge

@wvrailfan1

6 жыл бұрын

Timmy bentz you are correct. That would be the Maryland Midland.

@gcganonymous3021

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

Sad

12:01 holy shit

Sure tear up that beautiful yard. The current day liberals and neocons don't want reminders of America's industrial past laying around where people can see it.

@east_carolina_rail_photos

5 жыл бұрын

Shut up conservitard

@solodatemaru

4 жыл бұрын

Dude there is literally a Norfolk Southern yard just south of this and the CSX yard up line on the northeast side of DC. They tore it down because neither railroad needed a second yard and Alexandria could use a bunch of land for commercial and residential zoning.

@b3j8

3 жыл бұрын

That's just the way it goes. Things change, and the rail map w/it.

@user-li6es1so1k

11 ай бұрын

The yard was torn up AFTER CSX took full control (bought out) the RF&P in the late-1980s. Once the RF&P was integrated into CSX, CSX could run freight trains from Acca yard in Richmond, VA to Baltimore or Cumberland w/o the need to hump or interchange the trains at Potomac Yard. By the late-1980s, NS was down to using just the few interchange tracks just south of Potomac Yard. (NS generates almost no freight traffic east of Manassas as well.). And Conrail/D&H could interchange traffic with CSX in Baltimore after the CSX buyout of the RF&P. So Potomac Yard was no longer needed to interchange freight traffic by 1990. Since yards are expensive to operate and maintain, CSX made the decision to pull up the yard and sell off the property while maintaining a 3-track right-of-way. Selling off the property also relieved CSX railroad of some property taxes. Potomac Yard ceased to be useful for its original, intended purpose when RF&P became a fallen flag. Railroads hate spending money on things that are no longer useful, which has been embedded in their culture for over a 100 years.

No graffiti.