Mount an interesting accessory inside an open box car?

Manny, there are some interesting LED projects you can power with a 3 volt flat battery. Evans has most every thing you might want to add to your boxcar, flashing lights are certainly available. Yellow flashing as well. Look over their catalog.

https://evandesigns.com/collec...2EAAYAiAAEgJ1CPD_BwE

Freakin lasers

I made a hobo car with some fire LEDs from Evans Designs. The hard part was adding track power to a car that didn’t have it. You have that, so this isn’t hard.

Refer to this post and some before it (in the same thread) for details.

Well...there's always the Mary Christmas approach...

Mitch

Thanks for all of these suggestions.

Tex, were you able to power your fire bulbs with straight power from the track?  Or, did you have to use resistors, etc., to reduce the track amps/volts??

P.S. -  In your dreams Mitch.  :-)

Mannyrock

I put an MP3 player and Polar Express soundtrack inside.

@Mannyrock ,

I ordered the following from Evans Design;

Fire LED Kit × 3  Size: Nano (+$3.00) / Voltage: 7-19 volts AC/DC/DCC (+$2.00) / Wire Length: 8 Inch Wire

These attach directly to the hot/ground wires from the collector/truck, no need for additional electronics.  I ordered the nano, a little bigger than the pico, but still pretty small.  I attached 2 to make my little fire inside the barrel, but 1 may be sufficient.  I got the pico size first, and with my banana fingers I think I fried them.  I bought 3 nanos in order to have a spare in case of another oops.  Since I only installed one roller due to the difficulty in the installation, I added one of GRJ's LED lighting kits (from Hennings) so as there's not too much on/off flicker, and it works well.  Since you have 2 rollers, you should connect both to the LEDs and you would be fine.

@VADarthDad,

I actually bought the Woody Guthrie hobo song 'Hard Traveling' from iTunes to put on a player to go inside my hobo car.  Putting the collector/ground on the truck took so much effort I lost interest in doing that.  I may still revive that project at some point.