Howard and the 309 - II

We received the original of this Trib photo, and can update the info a little.  It is date stamped 4:23 PM on Nov 21, 1962. I'm not sure whether that's the time it was taken or developed, although there was probably little delay.  The car was already at North Chicago.

Although the photograph is mainly illuminated by a flash gun to the photographer's right, I noticed that some of the side lights are on in the car.  On the left side both circuits are lit, on the right side only one.  At North Chicago the 120V bulbs were replaced with 30V bulbs (used on cars with low voltage lighting) so that the car could be lit with 120V AC power.  They are rather dim, though.  These bulbs remained in the car until the fire; since the light circuits were damaged, interior lighting after that was provided by a temporary system strung down the middle of the car on the buzzer cord hangars. It took me until 1979 to get all of the circuits working again.