Large Scale Central

Some new additions

My wife periodically gets really interested in doing some work on the railway. This year she made a skating rink and warming hut with a fire pit She decorated some trees and strung mini lights on some building. I was in charge of making the lighting work, but otherwise was told in no uncertain terms to back off!

The warming hut has a flickering fire, using two sets of three flickering red, range and yellow leds

She put up mini christmas lights

Here you can start to see the night effect

It’s really pretty cool. Most of the lights are LEDs, some in the buildings are malibu low voltage. She even made little wreaths for the buildings

That is pretty kewl! Looks like a miniature Christmas village…:wink:

Very nice, Mike.
Merry Christmas.
Tell your wife she did a wonderful job.
I wish I could get my wife more involved in the GRR.
She is much more talented than I.
Ralph

Nice pictures. Does the lighting work all the time or just turned on for special events?

Neat!

Thanks!

All the Christmas-y lighting, the trees, the rink, the fire, the lights inside the rental place–are tied to track power, and they’re on whenever the track is powered. The rest of the lights in the houses are on a separate circuit that switches on an off with a remote

LEDs are pretty great. At the moment we’ve got right around 80 leds, including leds in coaches and the switch tower, lit from the track. I assume that we’d never be able to run that many incandescents

How neat! I really like that effect. Now all you need is a dusting of snow!

What a nice warm holiday feeling your wife has achieved on the RR. Really nice!

Bruce Chandler said:
Now all you need is a dusting of snow!
What is that??? Do we have "dustings" anymore?? seems like it's either a total hail mary of snow or crappy mix.

Mike,
Looks great! I see you even have a life preserver ready for the New Years polar bear swim sitting at the pond.
I like the idea of hooking it to track power.