Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

Digging, digging, digging...

The Bowser parts website is extensive...  I spent a couple of hours in it last night and this morning and found that there are some prebuilt/painted Executive Line shells ready to go and for sale....  No Conrail-specific roadnames, but they do offer a couple of British Columbia Railroad M630's that have beautiful details and they are pre-wired for lighting (with their new circuit boards of course, not my old Stewart card, which may be a problem regarding fit).  But, for $45? That's probably a deal I can't pass up.  Can't find any evidence that Conrail leased any BCR stuff, but as I did say yesterday, they did deal with CN and CP a lot.  Who's to say that a BCR unit didn't end up helping out at some point?  There are also some similar PGE units, but the BCR would have swallowed them up by 1976, and by 1984?  They'd be CP units.

If I do decide to go this route, I also found some Hi Ad truck covers on Bowser's website.  Gotta find out whether they are fully compatible with my Stewart gearbox frames....

Anyway, here's a link to Page 33 of the Diesel parts list that includes these units and some beautiful RS3 shells (mostly on page 32) for the the same price...  https://bowserorders.com/product-categor...o/page/33/

I see more cash flying out of my wallet.... 

I did run my chassis this morning at full speed for about an hour and no scorching heat was noted where the resistor was previously fried.  I'll do it again with the old shell on with a piece of tape over the new "vents" to see if there's any buildup.