| Delaware & Hudson Railway PA4u 19 at Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in April 1975, photo by Dave Weber, Chuck Zeiler collection. The date is from the Kodak date stamped on the slide, it may have been photographed earlier. Built May 1947 (c/n 75318) as AT&SF PA1 #54B, renumbered #66L in 1949, it was retired and sold to the D&H in December 1967. It was repainted and refurbished for passenger service on the D&H, which lasted until the advent of Amtrak in 1971. It was traded to GE, but was reacquired in 1972. The D&H was able to convince the State of New York to use D&H equipment for a state funded (2/3 state, 1/3 Amtrak funded) passenger service between New York and Montreal. The PA1's were assigned this service, but were in need of upgrade. The D&H had four PA1's, and removed the 16-cylinder Model 244 prime movers and shipped the bodies of #'s 16 and 19 to Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Idaho in June 1974 for installation of 12-cylinder Model 251F prime movers, as well as upgrade of electrical equipment. The upgraded PA1 was designated PA4, and 19 was placed in service on the D&H on March 1, 1975. The PA4's service life on the D&H was only a couple of years. In 1977 Amtrak replaced the D&H equipment with Turboliners, and the out-of-work PA's were briefly leased to Boston's MBTA commuter agency, but by 1979, they were sold to Diesels International. The PA's were shipped off the FNM in Mexico, where 19 received a new Model 251 prime mover in 1988. Ultimately, it was retired to a museum near Mexico City. |