Last steps...
^ fitting the lower level light bar. The regulator sticks out from the right end
^ with the upper level reinstalled onto the chassis, the regulator assembly nestles neatly between levels in the hidden area of the carbody.
One last check, this time on track power.
^Carbody reinstalled and all lights connected on track power. (1.6 second exposure)
^Closeup of the lit interior. I thought the strips looked a little dimmer now that eleven strips are hooked up, but looking at the interior in a darkened room shows them to be "just right" in comparison to a real-life passenger car. I guess we're just used to toy (uh, er, "model") passenger trains lighting up the room like a traditional Lionel.
^And, by request 
a comparison between old and new. Not shown is the noticeably brighter lights in the older (silver-trucked) first-run Superliners. The unmodified second-run car's lights look brown by comparison. Both generations of incandescent-lit cars spill a lot of light outside the car, whereas the LED-lit one keeps most of its light inside the car.
---PCJ
