Virginia Railway Express

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Revised: 27 June 2023 Jeff Morfit photo at Dahlgren Jct., Virginia on 31 January 2022
Reporting Mark: VRE Information by Tom Rhinehart
Model (& Bldr) Road No. Bldr Nmbr Date Notes
RP39-2C (M-K) V01 - V02 32362, 32621 12/66, 1/67 Built from ex-GP40s: ACL 927 andSAL 642
V03 - V04 39260, 39250 12/71 Built from ex-GP40s: C&O 3794 & 3784
V05 5793-03 10/71 Built from ex-GP40: SAL 1635
V06 - V10 38522, 56 & 38496 12/66, 1/67 Built from ex-GP40s: B&O 4042, L&N 3025, C&O 4086, L&N 3018 and B&O 4016
Disposiions:
  • V01-V10 sold to MPI
RP40-2C (M-K) V20 & V21 34750, 34628 2/69, 10/68 Re-built from GP40s A&WP 728 & PC3197
Disposiions:
  • V20 to CRRX V20, to CRRX C20 > to CRRX 728
  • V21 to USAX 4670, to Durbano Metals, Inc.-Ogden, UT, scrapped
GP40H-2 (AMF) V22 & V23 32567, -- 11/66 Built from CSX 6851 & 6513
V24 39242, 38488 12, 8/71 Built from GP40s CSX 6583
Disposiions:
  • V22 to US Army 4671
  • V23 to MVPX 23, to Kanawha River Terminals 23-Ceredo, WV, to KRT 413
  • V24 to US Army 4672
F40PH-2 (EMD) V30 & V31 F40PH Locos are F40PHs; ex-Amtrak 403 & 392
V32 & V33 807050-4 & 5 5/81 Ex-Amtrak 364 & 365
V34-V36 777107-1, 8 & 13 6,7,8/79 Ex-Amtrak 295, 311 & 316
Disposiions:
  • V31-V33 sold to Rail World Leasing
F59PHI (EMD) V40-V41 986906-3 & 4 01/00 Leased from and retuned to Sound Transit (#903 & 904)
MP36PH-3C (MPI) V50-V52 0708-01 to 3 6, 12, 12/10 --
V53-V56 0708-04 to 07 1, 2/11 --
V57-V59 0708-08 to 10 3, 4/11 --
V60-V69 0708-11 to 20 2011 (Delivery dates needed)

Credits

Locomotive data from Michael Richmond.

Thanks to the following for providing revisons and/or corrections: Gilbert Elmond; and Martin Bauman, Mark Gillings; Bryan Jones, Randy Keller, John Komanesky, Jeff Morfit, Davin Peterson, Thomas T. Warshaw III, Monty Smith, Craig Zeni, and Steve Wilhelm (via LocoNotes).

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