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Michael Palmieri's Collection
 
3/14/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Amtrak
Model:GE P30CHBuilt As:AMTK 706 (P30CH)
Serial Number:40700Order No:1816AMTK
Frame Number:Built:8/1975
Other locos with this serial:  AMTK 706(P30CH)
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AMTK P30 706
Title:  AMTK P30 706
Description:  Nearly-new P30CH 706 was leaving New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal on the PANAMA LIMITED with SDP40F 616. A P30 had come in on the PANAMA for the first time about three weeks earlier, so these were still a novelty down here!
Photo Date:  12/10/1975  Upload Date: 2/5/2017 9:02:18 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 706(P30CH)
Views:  490   Comments: 0
AMTK P30CH 706
Title:  AMTK P30CH 706
Description:  Amtrak P30CH 706 and SDP40F 619 were parked next to the sand tower at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The locomotives had come in on Train No. 59, the southbound PANAMA LIMITED, and the engine crew left the units here just before they went off duty.
Photo Date:  1/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/28/2023 3:21:40 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. image
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 706(P30CH)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 1
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 1
Description:  At 15:40 on Saturday 14 December 1985 the westbound SUNSET LIMITED was heading out of New Orleans on the Illinois Central Gulf at East Bridge Junction. The train was made up of P30CH units 706 and 718, baggage car 1151, dormitory-coach 39901, and Superliner coach 34055, diner 38020 and sleeper 32027; but it was missing its usual 10-6 transcontinental sleeper.
Photo Date:  12/14/1985  Upload Date: 9/2/2017 6:11:06 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 706(P30CH)
Views:  459   Comments: 0


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