[PRCo] Re: Catepillar Paint & Roof Lights

[Macmarka at cs.com]

In a message dated 11/21/02 8:15:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
kjosephson at sprintmail.com writes:

<< Also, when did PAT start installing roof spotlights on
 non-interurban PCCs? I see in one of the pictures, car 1742 has one and the 
picture
 is dated April, 1972. >>
    I believe roof lights were installed at the same time as the mod paint 
schemes. It used to be a dead giveaway whether a car was an interurban or not 
just by looking for the roof light(providing one could not see the car # ). 
Some cars, however, did not recieve their mod schemes until as late as 1982. 
Most of these were the gray#2 paint. I imagine all cars, including the gray 
#2 cars, were equiped with a roof headlight sometime between 1972 and 1975. 
I'm not sure of this though. Anyone else?                                       
    Mark Mc