Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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I think I alluded to the fact that the workspace on my desk has dwindled to little more than elbow room over the past few months due to accumulated clutter and a multitude of projects.  While I was waiting for the foam glue to dry (and avoiding trying to rescale my sign...), I remembered somewhere in the clutter was an old Athearn blue box kit of Chessie tractors.  Bought these during a trip my wife and I made to Chesapeake City, MD.  Quaint little town right on the C&D canal that's about 45 minutes from my house - lot of bed and breakfasts, shops, restaurants.  They just so happened to have a hobby shop - apparently the owner inherited/bought a bunch of toys and hobby material and has been trying to sell the stuff there - most of the railroading stuff he has left was 70's era Tyco/Life Like/AHM/etc.  My wife was desperate for me to find something to bring back, and I did find this kit - two Chessie White Freightliner tractors that I thought might be useful on my layout.  I'd forgotten how well done a lot of the blue box stuff was for the era, and spent about a half hour putting these together and then dulling them up and weathering them with PanPastels and getting them ready for the industrial areas around Hazleton.