The rebirth of the Canyon State RR

[ezdays]

Thanks Mike, appreciate the kind words.

I had a problem with the lighting, the LED's were too close to the front of the buildings created hot spots, plus the Big Blue Train Club had no lights at all. Up to now, I've been using 12 volt incandescent lamps (center of first photo), to light my buildings, but they draw more current than I like, so I took apart one of those free flashlights that Harbor Freight used to give out, and took the white LED's, added a 2.2K resistor and attached them to wires (outside of first photo). They were too bright and unnatural as-is, so I painted them orange giving me the look that I wanted. I can run them up to 12 volts, but they look fine at 8, and there's no glow through the walls.

The second photo shows where they are now, about 1/2" from where they were and raised up just a bit. I had the little guys wire the train club room while they had the building off site, and you can see the results of their efforts.