An election campaign special for presidential candidate John Anderson, makes a whistle stop tour on the San Francisco peninsula.

Southern Pacific SDP45 3204 pulls gallery cars on eastbound (southbound) commute #130, as it exits a tunnel in San Francisco, California.

Southern Pacific SDP45s 3207 and 3204 bring southbound (railroad eastbound) Amtrak #11 Coast Starlight to a stop at San Luis Obispo, California on April 18, 1973.

Southern Pacific SDP45s 3201 and 3207, former passenger power, show off their new colors (for the ill-fated SP/Santa Fe merger) at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles, California.

A couple of SDP-45's and a U-34-CH show off their "B" ends. The 3638 became an E-L Bicentennial unit. Note the remains of the massive coal tipple.

Accelerating away from South San Francisco stop

Radio Equipped

Helper set. The SDP45 wasn't loading, but they were testing in notch 8...

AT eastend of Altoona Yard Mid 1970s

First Amtrak Coast Route train leaving Los Angeles

BN run through power was common on EL trains 74 and 75. Lead unit is ex-GN 327, later BN 6593 and NRL 6592, was finally scrapped by MK in 1986. GAF Anscochrome, Argus C-3.