Roundhouse
Tucked into stalls 1 and 2 are a pair of Amtrak P30CHs on lease to SP to help relieve a system-wide power crunch during the summer of 1978. The units are in for an inspection and a little light repair.
Southern Pacific's Lenzen Street roundhouse was the center
of SP's San Jose operations.The roundhouse featured a working turntable which was used up
until the advent of the CalTrain F40PH-2s and push-pull operation. Built in 1899 as a
wood-frame and brick structure, it originally had eight stalls but after dieselization
three of the stalls were torn down, their whisker tracks relegated for use as open-air
stalls for locomotive light maintenance and testing.
Click me
SD7 1442 rests outside the roundhouse on one of the open-air tracks in 1974 while between runs on the Permenente Local.
It's January of 1973 and SP SD45
9103 sits on one of the open-air whisker tracks along with 1953-built Fairbanks/Morse
H12-44 switcher 2357. 
