Another easier and cheaper way to eliminate the blinking of passenger car lights is to run a small flexible wire between each car hooking up the hot wire of each car to the car in front and behind. This will work easier if you normally run them as a set and can leave the hooked up. The wire can be hooked up with small wire nuts to make removing easy to change out cars if you must. I usually drill a 1/16 inch hole in the bottom of the car on each car end for wire.
This is real easy for a Lionel 2400 series cars as the roof can be removed by removing two thumb screws on the roof. I some time leave the roof top screws off. Some other passenger cars are a pain to get inside as the sides have to be forced in in certain spots to get the roof off with difficulty.
Some of us old timer 50 and 60s train runners have gotten used to Lionel car lights blinking and live with it, maybe we are used to it!
Charlie
