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Reply to "Am I the only person who hates LED lighting"

The challenge with LED's and color temperature in most residential and model settings is they are typically standard white LEDs coated with phosphorus to give them the "warm" look.  In commercial applications LED lighting consists of red, green, and blue LEDs and the color temperature is controlled by the LED driver and can be adjusted to any color with the right control system.   However those drivers are a little to large to put inside an individual car.

As was mentioned above, painting the LED yellow may help with giving more of that warm feeling we are used to in a typical incandescent lamp.  I personally like the LEDs since I can run prototype length mainline passenger trains.  Also depending the period you are modeling, fluorescent light lighting was used in streamlined cars and they tended to run 3500 degrees to 4500 degrees.  Headlights are of course a different situation. 

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