T.Albers posted:Hancock52, did you convert your silver Texas Special passenger cars to overhead LED’s?
I did not convert the first car of this aluminum set I did (the observation car) to LEDs because I mistakenly thought that the original incandescent lighting was in a ceiling moulding that reproduced the original car. I am sure that you know the part I mean, which is nicely detailed. I adapted it to the additional lighting I installed in the car, which was all LEDs from Evan Designs with a GRJ constant voltage power supply.
I later learned that that the ceiling part is generic in K-Line streamliners, or at least 18" and 21" ones. Please remember, as I have said before, that I believe many of Lionel's finest aluminum passenger cars - possibly all of the 21" ones - actually have K-Line parts.
So I have dispensed with that part and LEDs have gone/will go in the rest of the cars of this set. Otherwise the amp draw of the lighting of all the cars on the rails will be as much as the engines when powered up (OK, that's a slight exaggeration).
