This evening after testing the motor one more time on the bench I put the 390 back together and sent it around my layout. It ran flawlessly. I now have it pulling a 6 car freight trains made up mostly of my custom painted cars and it looks and runs great. The next project now will be redoing an old tender shell that I bought on E-Bay so I can make this a B&M steamer with the classic red and silver speedlettering. I have to figure out a way to fill in where the brass Lionel Lines placard was so I can decal over it smoothly, anyone ever done this?
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