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The future is now

            In May 1995, a friend working for Amtrak advised me that the photogenic P32-8BWH locomotives assigned to the Coast Starlight would soon be replaced by P40 "Genesis" units. His information was that the change was going to occur around the first of June.

Armed with this knowledge, I figured I could get some last photos of P32s on the train when my wife and I were in Klamath Falls for Memorial Day Weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, all went well, as I caught a pair of P32s on No. 14 each morning.

Memorial Day saw the changing of the guard. When the northbound Starlight entered my viewfinder, it was drawn by Genesis units AMTK 802 and 801. Aside from a brief stretch when EMD F40s returned to the train, General Electric's P40 and P42 units would be the regular Coast Starlight power for the next quarter century.

Taken on: May 29, 1995

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Camera:	Plustek OpticFilm 8200i
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Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 15.0 (Windows)
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