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Title:
AMTK 500 - Barstow, CA - 6/24/81
Description:
Photo Date:
6/24/1981
Upload Date:
2/11/2011 11:38:06 AM
Location:
Barstow, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 500(SDP40F)
Views:
1021
Comments:
0
Title:
Amtrak 503
Description:
Amtrak SDP40F 503 crosses Lemon Street as it departs Fullerton, California with a southbound "San Diegan," heading on to San Diego, on October 29, 1974.
Photo Date:
10/29/1974
Upload Date:
5/22/2010 10:53:17 PM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 503(SDP40F)
Views:
1079
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 504
Description:
"May Gray" is the order of the day as a westbound Amtrak "San Diegan" rolls into the station in Fullerton, California. In the distance an automobile can be seen crossing the tracks on Lemon Avenue (which now passes under the tracks), and a block of mechanical refrigerator cars on the siding to the right was a typical sight at the time. Things have certainly changed at the station since May 1974!
Photo Date:
5/1/1974
Upload Date:
2/7/2012 1:23:34 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 504(SDP40F)
Views:
591
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 523
Description:
Amtrak's #3, the "Southwest Limited," crosscs the Los Angeles River as it approaches its final destination at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal early in the morning in February 1974. A trio of EMD SDP40F diesels (525, 525 and 505), from Amtrak's first order of new power, leads the train on this day. In the early days of Amtrak, Santa Fe would not allow the use of their "Super Chief" nam{ to be used by Amtrak, hence the train's early moniker "Southwest Limited." In October 1984, Santa Fe deemed Amtrak's improvements to this train sufficient and the railroad aklowed the use of their trademarked name to be used by Amtrak, and the old "Super Chief" was reborn as the "Southwest Chief." Note that the old Santa Fe advertising on the bridge was still in place, and that the L.A. River's concrete banks are not covered in graffkti! (And what appears to be graffiti on the retaining wall on the left, bdhind the cut of cars, is actually an old advertisement.)
Photo Date:
2/1/1974
Upload Date:
12/21/2012 5:39:53 PM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 523(SDP40F)
AMTK 525(SDP40F)
AMTK 505(SDP40F)
Views:
1437
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 505
Description:
An Amtrak "San Diegan" heads north (railroad west) past the closed Santa Fe station at Orange, CA. The depot is now a restaraunt, and also a Metrolink station stop. Trailing the 505 is E9B 452 (ex-MILW 358) and five cars.
Photo Date:
8/21/1975
Upload Date:
5/22/2010 10:56:33 PM
Location:
Orange, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 505(SDP40F)
AMTK 452(E9B)
Views:
1147
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 507
Description:
On a bright afternoon in April 1974, an Amtrak "San Diegan," heading from San Diego to Los Angeles, approaches the Lemon Street grade crossing as it slows for the station stop in Fullerton, California. SDP40F 507 is on the headend of this six car train.
Photo Date:
4/1/1974
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 1:51:07 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Signal,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 507(SDP40F)
Views:
478
Comments:
2
Title:
AMTK 508
Description:
Practically new (built in July 1973), Amtrak SDP40F 508 sits at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal after arriving with train #3, the "Southwest Limited" on July 9th, 1973.
Photo Date:
7/9/1973
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 1:59:07 AM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Locomotives:
AMTK 508(SDP40F)
Views:
475
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 508
Description:
When Amtrak took over (most of) America's passenger rail operations in May 1971, they had to make due with a hodge-podge of diesels, mainly E-units, built in the 1940s and 1950s that were, to put it kindly, getting a bit tired. New power was ordered from EMD - a new model, the SDP40F - which began arriving just about two years after Amtrak's inaugural day. The first of these 500-class engines entered service on the former Santa Fe trains - notably, trains #3 and #4, the Chicago to Los Angeles "Southwest Limited." With a built date of July 1973, Amtrak 508 is seen at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal on July 9th, 1973 after having brought in that morning's #3. These engines were basically passenger versions of EMD's popular SD40-2, in a cowl carbody (reminiscent of EMD's FP45) and including two steam generators and, because they were to operate nationwide, two types of fuel fillers. (On an adjacent track can be seen a bit of a Santa Fe F7A, what were still powering Amtrak's L.A. to San Diego "San Diegans," and which were still owned by Santa Fe and leased to Amtrak. Within a very short time, SDP40Fs would replace these classic Fs as well.)
Photo Date:
7/9/1973
Upload Date:
1/13/2013 11:53:34 PM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 508(SDP40F)
Views:
844
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 508
Description:
On November 19th, 1974, an eastbound (southbound) Amtrak "San Diegan" makes a stop at Fullerton, California. Power for this six car train is SDP40F 508 and E9B 452. The SDP40F is new, having been built in July 1973, while the E9B was built in April 1956 as Milwaukee Road 205B (later renumbered MILW 35B) before being sold to Amtrak.
Photo Date:
11/19/1974
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 1:57:29 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 508(SDP40F)
Views:
411
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 513
Description:
Photo Date:
7/15/1973
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:44:39 AM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
AMTK 513(SDP40F)
Views:
523
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 513
Description:
Photo Date:
10/24/1974
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:45:56 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 513(SDP40F)
Views:
459
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 514
Description:
Photo Date:
4/29/1976
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:46:43 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 514(SDP40F)
Views:
348
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 514
Description:
Photo Date:
12/27/1978
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:49:27 AM
Location:
Rialto, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 514(SDP40F)
Views:
381
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 515
Description:
Photo Date:
2/28/1974
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:50:29 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 515(SDP40F)
Views:
984
Comments:
5
Title:
AMTK 516
Description:
Photo Date:
10/17/1974
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:52:25 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 516(SDP40F)
Views:
454
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 517 - Los Angeles, CA - 4/78
Description:
Photo Date:
4/1/1978
Upload Date:
12/26/2010 2:20:04 AM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 517(SDP40F)
Views:
483
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 518
Description:
Photo Date:
1/6/1974
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:55:20 AM
Location:
San Bernardino, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Winter,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 518(SDP40F)
Views:
656
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 518
Description:
Photo Date:
12/31/1974
Upload Date:
8/26/2011 1:54:32 AM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 518(SDP40F)
Views:
473
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 520 - Fullertnn, CA - 9/29/73
Description:
A pair of SDP40F diesels bring Amtraks train #775 (a "San Diegan") into Fullerton, California, on September 29, 1973.
Photo Date:
9/29/1973
Upload Date:
2/15/2011 4:06:01 PM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 520(SDP40F)
Views:
835
Comments:
2
Title:
AMTK 526 - Los Angeles, CA - 4/78
Description:
Photo Date:
4/1/1978
Upload Date:
12/26/2010 2:20:41 AM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 526(SDP40F)
Views:
439
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 527 - Los Angeles, CA - 4/78
Description:
Photo Date:
4/1/1978
Upload Date:
12/26/2010 2:21:17 AM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 527(SDP40F)
Views:
504
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 528
Description:
A San Diego-bound "San Diegan" has just crossed the Santa Ana River and entered the city of Orange on a typically gloomy April day in 1975. The five car train is being pulled by one of Amtrak's ubiquitous SDP40F diesels (built by EMD in June 1973). In the background, just behind the rear of the train, one can see the Orange Freeway (the "57 Freeway") under construction in Anaheim, and beyond that is Anaheim Stadium, the home since 1966 of the California Angels (later renamed the Anaheim Angels, and currently the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). This stadium, now renamed Angel Stadium, is, in 2012, the fourth oldest baseball stadium in the major leagues (behind Boston's Fenway Park [1912], Chicago's Wrigley Field [1914] and L.A.'s Dodger Stadium [1962]).
Photo Date:
4/1/1975
Upload Date:
12/27/2012 12:16:49 AM
Location:
Orange, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 528(SDP40F)
Views:
466
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 528
Description:
In 1975, much of Orange County was still somewhat agricultural. A San Diego-bound "San Diegan" has just crossed the Santa Ana River and entered the city of Orange on a typically gloomy April day in 1975. The five car train is being pulled by one of Amtrak's ubiquitous SDP40F diesels (528, built by EMD in June 1973). Within a few short years, the orange groves and eucalyptus tree wind breaks would all be bulldozed in order to make way for more urban sprawl, and the area in this photo is unrecognizable today - This area is all warehouses, factories and businesses, and access to the tracks here is accessable only at a few grade crossings.
Photo Date:
4/1/1975
Upload Date:
12/27/2012 12:50:45 AM
Location:
Orange, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Scenic,RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 528(SDP40F)
Views:
552
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 540
Description:
A pair of Amtrak SDP40F diesels are in charge of train #53, the "Floridian," as it stops in Montgomery, Alabama, in October 1974. (Douglas G. Walker photo, Craig Walker collection)
Photo Date:
10/1/1974
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 2:07:58 AM
Location:
Montgomery, AL
Author:
Douglas G. Walker
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 540(SDP40F)
Views:
1005
Comments:
4
Title:
AMTK 542
Description:
Amtrak train #711, a five-car westbound "San Joaquin," clatters across the the WP and then the SP diamonds at Stockton Tower on July 6th, 1976. The diminutive train, heading from Bakersfield CA to Richmond CA, is being pulled by Amtrak's standard power of the mid-1970s - an EMD SDP40F.
Photo Date:
7/6/1976
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 2:13:06 AM
Location:
Stockton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 542(SDP40F)
Views:
361
Comments:
2
Title:
SOU 6905
Description:
A colorful assortment of power sits at the Ivy City Engine Terminal in Washington DC on a September day in 1975. Front and center is Southern Railway E8A 6905 (ex-SOU 2928, built 9/51), still in passenger service for the Southern Railway (which did not initially join the Amtrak system when it was formed in 1971). Hiding behind the E-unit is Baltimore & Ohio 6606, a steam-generator equipped GP9 used on Washington to Baltimore commuter trains. And behind that is an assortment of Amtrak SDP40F diesels (582 and, behind that, 609, with others not visible).
Photo Date:
9/1/1975
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 9:49:08 PM
Location:
Ivy City, DC
Author:
Douglas G. Walker
Categories:
Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:
SOU 6905(E8A)
BO 6606(GP9)
AMTK 582(SDP40F)
AMTK 609(SDP40F)
Views:
958
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 583 - San Luis Obispo, CA - 7/2/74
Description:
Amtrak train #11, the "Coast Starlight," passes through the pastures of Cal Poly University (which has an extensive agricultural program) in San Luis Obispo, California, on July 2, 1974. SDP40Fs 583 and 587 are in charge of this train as it heads from Seattle to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:
7/2/1974
Upload Date:
1/27/2011 12:33:39 PM
Location:
San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 583(SDP40F)
AMTK 587(SDP40F)
Views:
766
Comments:
3
Title:
AMTK 598
Description:
Amtrak train #5, the westbound "San Francisco Zephyr," descends Donner Pass as it meets an eastbound freight at Blue Canyon on March 18th, 1978. SDP40Fs 598 and 620 are in charge of the "Zephyr" this day.
Photo Date:
3/18/1978
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 2:14:16 AM
Location:
Blue Canyon, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 598(SDP40F)
Views:
333
Comments:
0
Title:
AMTK 604
Description:
Amtrak train #55, the "Mountaineer," makes its station stop in Suffolk, Virginia, on a bright April 1975 day. The lone SDP40F, #604, can easily handle this five car train. (Douglas G. Walker photo, Craig Walker collection)
Photo Date:
4/1/1975
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 2:16:58 AM
Location:
Suffolk, VA
Author:
Douglas G. Walker
Categories:
Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
AMTK 604(SDP40F)
Views:
499
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 615
Description:
Amtrak train #14, the westbound (northbound) "Coast Starlight," pops out of the tunnel at Cuesta, at the summit of central California's Cuesta Grade on January 26th, 1978. The train, led by SDP40Fs 615 and 546, is just fourteen miles out of San Luis Obispo on its trek from Los Angeles CA to Seattle WA.
Photo Date:
1/26/1978
Upload Date:
2/3/2013 2:15:32 AM
Location:
Santa Margarita, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Scenic,Tunnel,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 615(SDP40F)
Views:
432
Comments:
1
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