Light'em up! Layouts at night

Clifford, excellent scene, thanks for the thread. Your model railroad is awesome. Happy Railroading

The lights close the deal and make the big kids and the grand kids eyes light-up!

Clifford,

Thank you for this thread. I hope to build a layout soon, and making night operation with lots of layout lighting, is a big focus. Indirect lighting from inside structures, lampposts, and track signals. So I hope others share ideas and photos in this thread.

Thank you

Here are mine of my city (Chicago):

Night in my little city -

Wow!!!! Nice! Love the neon signs! When you think about, it we've definitely come a long way, not only in command control of trains but in other areas also. Amazing to say the least.

On the Shenandoah Short Line lights begin to flicker on as dusk enshrouds the rail yard facility and the city and suburbs beyond.

We were about to leave the building one evening and forgot to turn off the layout. On the way back to the switch, I decided to take a couple of photos.

Still working on wiring everything up, but here are some pictures

NWL

@ConrailFan posted:

Wow!!!! Nice! Love the neon signs! When you think about, it we've definitely come a long way, not only in command control of trains but in other areas also. Amazing to say the least.

Thanks Conrail. Crazy things happen down in the Bowery on the other side of the tracks late at night.......

BTW, those are all 7 trains on the elevated line.

I agree, a layout at night with lights on is a really great effect.   Particularly if you use the lights to guide the viewers eyes to specific scenes.  Here is one of mine:

That is a 3D printed model of the moon I got from Amazon. Details how I did it are here

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...-it-full-moon-rising

@John Sethian posted:

I agree, a layout at night with lights on is a really great effect.   Particularly if you use the lights to guide the viewers eyes to specific scenes.  Here is one of mine:

That is a 3D printed model of the moon I got from Amazon. Details how I did it are here

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...-it-full-moon-rising

Wow!  That's really cool.

I took these photos on my last layout after I built a "wall" to put my Miller Engineering Sunoco sign in view in the refinery scene.  The oil well to the left was made by Colber and came off my high school layout.

  Straphanger your CBGB's looks as sleazy as it was back in the day!  Nice work.

What's a layout without lights?

Here are a few shots of my vintage prewar layout....enjoy!!

from Popsrr sometime in the past.....

Layout review & update 02-09-13 w/Pictures | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum (ogaugerr.com)

Night time in Schenectady.