The owner of this car wondered why Lionel didn't put a rear facing red light on this observation car from the Polar Express. Thanks to Evan Design, and after about 90-minutes working on it, I was able to make it happen. Caution: these cars are tricky to disassemble! The "How-To" for that was found on the web.
Main Street on the Fall layout
A "night time" view of the Main Street on the Fall layout at Edgerton Model Railroad Room, Rochester, NY. All lighting, with the exception of Mel's Diner and the service station, was done with Evan Designs LEDs. Those two accessories will soon also get the treatment. I've added so many LEDs to this layout, we have had to install 4 power supplies dedicated just to them!
I have just posted a video on youtube. The video is of the forest fire scene at the Greeley Freight Station Museum. This scene uses 6 Evan Designs fire kits and several Evan Design blinking LEDs on vehicles.
Dracula from the train
Transylvania Express
Halloween party
Halloween Carnival
Illuminated yard
I'm having a lot of fun electrifying Pinecrest, the town on my garden railroad. The lights look great, especially the Halloween Carnival and the flaming haunted house. Scary!
Refinery in the distance
Quick note to tell you how much I appreciate your 3v smd's. I used 50 of them and your 3v power for the attached scene. The refinery is nowhere near complete but still looks good. Needs more lights!
This refinery is N scale, and is part of the Southern New Mexico N Scalers layout in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
I thought you might be interested to see this project. Thanks again for the great products.
Carl Sowell
El Paso, Texas
Pico lights
Pico lights in N scale lightposts
Look at the railway silo
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Lonely white car
anywhere junction switching layout self designed added more led wone trophy last year will be in chillawack model train show 2013 and trains 2013 Bc Canada
View from high
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Wagon diner
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Galaxy tool and die
anywhere junction switching layout self designed added more led wone trophy last year will be in chillawack model train show 2013 and trains 2013 Bc Canada
The train chooses a side
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Railroad Junction
anywhere junction switching layout self designed added more led wone trophy last year will be in chillawack model train show 2013 and trains 2013 Bc Canada
Camping with friends
Campsite Near the lake HO Layout
Garage with gas station
I received the smaller LEDs today and got them installed. I promised you a couple of pictures of my latest project. This is the first time I have attempted such a detailed interior and the lights really show it off. Thanks for suggesting the small chip LEDs. They worked great!
Old garage
It's amazing what is available in HO scale if you dig for it! Most of the work benches and basic large clutter came from Rusty Rails (unpainted castings) and the intricate details (tools, gears, fan belts, etc.) came from Vectorcut laser cut wood. The structure is scratch-built from my imagination. The LEDs really set it off and let the details show. Thanks again for your help!
Railwayman
Attached is photo on my layout. Utilized one of your universal four 1.8mm LED harness to light up a Peco inspection pit.
Required drilling holes in side of pit, removing excess layout base material, then running lead wire under layout to DCC buss wires.
The lights sure added some dimension to the passenger car RIP track.
Larry B.
NYC Bay Window Caboose
Innovative use of LEDs to replace troublesome regular lamps in a K-line O-scale bay window caboose. Also eliminated the never-ending problem of the lights flickering as the car passes inevitable dead spots in the track.
Edgerton Model Railroad Room
Building from the Fall layout at historic Edgerton Model Railroad Room, Rochester, NY. Cleaned and repainted, new windows, first and second floor interiors scratch built, sign designed and printed, lighted with Evan Design 5-mm's inside, 1.8-mm's on the sign.
Passing trains at night
American Flyer locomotives
Here are my 5mm warm and 3mm cool LEDs used as headlights on American Flyer locomotives. The steam locomotive has the 5mm warm LED. The American Flyer Baldwin Diesel has the 3mm cool LED used as headlights. These are great! All you have to do is mount the light behind the existing lenses and hook them up to the motor. Presto you have BRIGHT headlights even at slow speeds!
Steam generator repair
Welders working on a boiler inthe garage in the train yard. I also have a switched overhead garage light inside the workshop. This stuff is so cool.
Freight station
O-gauge freight station made by someone else, cleaned up and lighted with Evan Design LED's.
Under train
A Hornby Railroad 0-6-0T 3F Jinty" with the Flashing LEDs for AC DCC (5-19v, red, fast) Made a Firebox used 2 side by side
The police stop the truck
my Z scale Tahoe Police car with your 1.8mm Fast Red/Blue LED installed
Blacksmith on wheels
Keith, it's a great kit!! Shelly- great feedback and the flicker unit worked out great. And Alan, the gorge was a hoot to build and then redo to enable the flicker unit to go in that pan!! The Smithy is a great character fig...whoever sculpted him- kudos!!
There is some oil seepage to do on the journals, and some smoke smudging to add... but it's done!! Thank you to everyone for their input and suggestions...I am VERY happy with this....
Dave
Train Bridge scene
Just received my 2nd order from you and installed 4 flashing LEDs on my model bridge in HO scale. Can you find all 4? (Hint it's on the center divider) Absolutely love them. I will order more.
Phil
Welding under train
great welding scene! thank you Chris
Campfire scene
N campfire scene, the hobos are roasting a nice chicken
Thank you to Chris Cottrell
Crossroads
N street Scene with Evan Designs LEDs
Thank you to Chris Cottrell for the great street scene
Lonely railroad
My small n layout with your [Evan Designs] LEDs in it.
Newspaper kiosks
As well as the telephone boxes, I found another use for the warm white chips in newspaper kiosks for platforms and stations Layouts4U
Shelves with models
Finally got to the lighting project. Was able to install �headlights� in two 1/29 model pickup trucks. They were built by different manufacturers so one was a relative cakewalk while the other was not so easy. Got both done OK though. And I got the welding lights installed as well. It�s impressive.
Polar Express observation car
LED marker lights on Polar Express observation car.
Polar Express
LED marker lights on Polar Express observation car.
Switcher moving the crane
Here's a short video of the switcher moving the crane. It's moving faster than I would normally do only to make the file size smaller.
Roger
An amazing model of active town
"Here is a video we posted on YouTube
featuring the fire trucks with your
fast rate 1.8 LEDS."
Steven Palmer
Very old tow truck
Vintage tow truck connected to the battery
Blacksmith by the railroad
My blacksmith shop with a Fire LED kit for the forge and a warm white LED to light the interior.
SW900 Buffalo Creek
SW900
Bill Klopp
Little Critter train
"...All of them I wired to track pickups so they are on all the time." - Little Critter
Bill Klopp
SOO MP15 train
"My MP15, look really nice on my HO layout!"
Bill Klopp
Roundhouse Lighting
Kevin Brady shared photos and a full article about his roundhouse in his train layout. This roundhouse was lit using Evan Designs' warm white nano LEDs.
Interesting Railroad Model
Dave Bechtel shared this photo of his two Dept. 56 pieces that now use Evan Designs LEDs. The headlights of the engine and cars have LEDs installed. "The pictures don't really show the full effect ... A few years ago I did a similar display using 3v, 6v and 12v lights along with several AC adapters. Needless to say, it was a nightmare. Your LEDs resolved those problems, resulting in a well-lit and easily managed display."
