mistertower Wrote:
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> ATTN:OPRRMS
> It had to have been May 1st,1971 as that is when
> Amtrak started, and Red Gyralights were no longer
> used for marker lights on the back of Amtrak
> trains that operated on SP, at least that is what
> other people from that time have told me and most
> of the pictures I have seen of Amtrak trains on
> the SP from that year had the little steady marker
> light hung on the gate in the middle of the
> diaphram of the last car.

Well, lessee. SP started hanging a portable stationary marker light on the gates in the mid-1960s, maybe early Sixties, or earlier. Conversely, the business cars still had their Mars lights or Gyralights until 1980 or there abouts. Of the two parlors that operated on 98 and 99, 2951 has a red lense on what was originally the back-up light while 2954 had a red Gyralight where the back-up light had been - and both cars still carried their red and green roof markers. So take your pick, I guess.