During 1978 the power short SP leased a fleet of Amtrak P30CH's to operate it's SF Peninsula commute line.

Four 'Pooches"

Amtrak P30CH 707 sits among the rest of the recently mothballed P30CH fleet at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel facility on Christmas Day, 1991.

New Orleans was the gathering place for the P30CHs as Amtrak placed them into retirement. Here the 705 sits on Christmas Day 1991, never to pull a passenger train again. The sun is finally settin... (more)

Amtrak P30CH 712 on an e/b SP commuter train at Redwood City, CA on September 2, 1978.

Skirting the San Francisco Bay, leased Amtrak P30CH 720 takes a pair of gallery cars from San Francisco to San Jose. This Southern Pacific commuter train is at South San Francisco, California on S... (more)

Amtrak P30CH 703 brings train #347, the Illinois Zephyr, out of Chicago on July 4, 1976.

Departing Phoenix

Pair of "Pooches" powering the "Sunset"

Amtrak's Shenandoah, Train #32, arrives into Parkersburg, WV, with Amtrak P30CH #718

Eastbound Sunset Ltd passing the Houston section of the InterAmerican on the SP about 20 miles west of Houston.