Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

Continued fun.  It's brisk outside, so rather than catch a cold, I decided to spend some more time on the cab.  The rear windshield wipers and the antenna (I ASSUME it is an antenna - can't see what else would be on the roof cab as a vertical element and I found them up there on a number of century locos).  

   

Then came my moment of dread - trying to mount a piece of flattened and bent painted wire (the rain gutter) on the curved roof surface.  I was hard enough getting in aligned there on the roof without glue.  Once I was happy with the positioning, a needle's worth of glue on the bend and on the two ends.  It's drying in this shot.

   

Nothing more humbling than a closeup of this detail work.  Up close in these tight shots this stuff looks clunky and less than skillful (huh....  kinda like me!), but from about 8 inches with my old eyes, it ain't too bad.  

After a few minutes looking at these same photos, I started looking at things like details around windows in the plastic casting and edges of original paint.  Those ain't perfect either, so I'm gonna give my lukewarm thumbs up.  It does make you appreciate the people in the manufacturing facilities for their willingness to go to work everyday, and maybe those finely detailed "run out of the box" versions are worth the expense...