CSX/RF&P Bridge over Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, VA

(no Bridge Hunter?; no Historic Bridges; Street View; Satellite, 9 photos)

Bridge Hunter has several little bridges for Spotsylvania County, but I could not find this one. Fredericksburg did not have it either. Nor Stafford County.

Randall Hampton posted
I have plenty of pics of bridges that are higher and longer, but few that are more important or have more history. The RF&P bridge over the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg VA has been replaced a couple of times. The original was destroyed in the Civil War. This bridge has always been a primary rail link between North and South on the east coast. It's the only bridge of this size where I regularly see strings of Amtrak coaches that stretch out of sight in both directions.

Bill Rogerson posted
Southbound Auto - Train crossing the Rappahannock River with two GE U-Boats providing power at Fredericksburg, VA - July 8, 1978
Gerard Geisler This is the pre Amtrak Auto Train. The train was privately run from December 6, 1971 until the company went out of business about 10 years later in 1981. Amtrak bought the rights to the concept as well as some of the equipment and restarted the operation in 1983.

Clear Signal NOVA posted
On a beautiful Easter afternoon, an empty CSX ballast train heads south over the Rappahannock River, southbound on the CSX RF&P subdivision through Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Randall Hampton shared

Kenneth James White posted a Google Photo that has a link to Brenda Holloway's blog

Brenda seems to have several blogs and lifeonabridged is just about bridges. I copied the above photo from her blog as "fair use" to call attention to some of her blog photos as art. (My photos are just information.)

Tim Smith posted

CSX Railroad Bridge over the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg, VA.

Built in 1925 and still in use, it has five main arches and several smaller arches at each end of the approach and carries CSX's main eastern seaboard line from Massachusetts to Florida. It also carries Amtrak and VRE Commuter Rail trains dozens of times a day.

It replaced a wooden bridge which had replaced an earlier wooden bridge destroyed during the Civil War.