Lighting for Layouts?

[nachoman]

Both are great ideas, depending on how permanent or temporary you want to be.

In fact, the shop light idea may have solved one of my problems. My layout is in a spare bedroom, and right now the "lighting" is a fixture in the center of the ceiling. I was going to wire in two rows of track lights along each wall, but that means going into the attic and running new wires, and installing a new switch. Instead, I think I will buy two rows of shop lights, and replace the ceiling fixture with a duplex to plug the shop lights into. I will then hang each shop light over one half of my layout. All I need to do is put a par of hooks in the ceiling for each light.