Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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Did a little puttering around looking for potential shells to model....  Found this one (CR patchout) that I thought was pretty cool.  I do have the yellow striping, but don't have an exact match for the white chevrons on the nose....
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Also tore open the body and found the source of the heat - looks like a solid state resistor did a bit of thermal runaway...


   

I also reset the decoder and revived the unit's address and got it to run.  Looks like the resistor probably controls the class lights and the number board lighting.  Other than that, everything seems functional.  I will be running the unit for a while tomorrow to see if the resistor heats up again.  

I'll keep my eye peeled for a used board or a defunct unit that I could use the board out of.  Bowser doesn't currently sell the circuit board.

I also found out that MLW put out C630M and M630 versions that were leased by early Conrail through CN...