Post War Car lighting

Hello Jack,

There quite a few makers now of LED replacements for your ordinary bulbs. It's only a matter of plug and play. The lower power requirements will be noticed right off. Many of our sponsors carry these.

"Pappy"

Cool thank you so much. Ill check them out. 

Forum member gunrunnerjohn has just come out with LED lighting kits. Don't know if they are available just yet, but will be very soon. He has made the kits with just about all you need for the conversion and has one that requires no soldering if you don't want to solder anything. Some folks solder, but a many do not want to.

Here is a recent thread about them Passenger car lighting kits

Also, John posts here regularly and helps many of us with our electronic projects, so you would have a place to go if you need help or have questions.

LED replacement bulbs are also available from many sources. trainaidsa.com is one I have used. There are many more listed on ebay and elsewhere. The link here has lots of info on LED lighting for trains.

I have all the parts for kits now, just have to assemble them and get them listed.  As stated, one option is a "solderless" kit with the LED strip wired with a connector, and the power module with pigtails and solderless splices for connection to track power.  Target price for the whole kit is around $13 and they'll be listed on the Henning's Trains website soon.  There will also be the option of just purchasing the power module separately.

GRJ, sounds like an extremely reasonable price point for your kits.

If you wish to go the drop-in replacement route with LED's then see here. Note these LED's are lower wattage, not lower voltage.

Larry