Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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LED replacement went well last night and I thought I'd share yet another method for securing LEDs in the desired spot inside a shell...

Nothing worse than a light that wanders, or one that you can't get the position optimal even after multiple shell removals and repositionings.  I also don't like too much light in the front cab due to spillover from the headlight.  I've previously shared building a ceiling between the cab and the headlight space, and I did that again with each GP30.  Stuffing the headlight up there was too inexact, so I found that gluing in a short piece of Plastruct 1/4" hollow tubing (either to the false ceiling on the shell) really worked well with my 3mm diameter LEDs (both for the front and rear headlights) - you just need to put a little bit of force to slide the LEDs and connected wires into the tubing.  Still left plenty of space between the metal chassis and the top of the shell.


       

I did some touchup painting on the Reading unit and hit all of the intake and exaust grills with black paint on each unit - hope to get some weathering done before I have to leave and help one of my employees move a 1600-lb I-beam into his kitchen (low budget remodel job) - fortunately there are 16 of us.