One of the challenges is adapting your space to housing a model railroad.
You end up needing the physical space to present certain features to make it possible to build the layout in the first place and then maintain it as a place you like to spend time in.
Lighting a railroad can be a challenge, especially when you go into the realm of having multiple decks. As my space is large and only has a few windows, artificial lighting and lots of it, is required.
The last two locations in the room that I hadn't swapped over to track lighting got done over the Christmas holiday break. It's a testimatt to the amount of stuff I have going on that I am blogging about it now.
First is the area under the sunroom. This offshoot is where a chunk of Doswell and Acca Wye will be, and is also the home of my tool bench at this point.
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| Single track, but lots of light from LED bulbs |
I went from a single, 60W incandescent inside a 6" pot, to a string of LEDs on a single track. 6 heads with the equivalent of over 300W, but it takes the power of just over 30W. Ain't technology grand?
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| Everything else is off, light wise. You can see how good this is with just these lights going. |
The area in the corner where Doswell starts was a bit more complex, so 3 different tracks were used.
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| Lots more potential here to illuminate this area properly |
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| Much brighter in this corner now! |
In case you are curious what a couple of tracks looks like when you police up your workspace...
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| That is an 18x24 box, btw |
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