It's been godawful hot here, and it this afternoon it poured down rain. But since the one thing that aristo didn't show on their website was how the lighting looks in the dark, I took some pics in the basement. You judge for yourself, but I think it looks good. One of the reasons I bought this car was to have a simple passenger train I could run at the end of the day. Easy to set up and take down. The lighting seems appropriate. The headlights are bright, as expected. The interior lighting is reasonable.
RJ, just for you, I am posting these pictures here and on the aristo board.
Here is car 127 with the aristo engineer sitting at the controls.
Next is a side view:
Here is a 3/4 wedge type shot which I think shows the real difference between the two lighting colors. The car is open under the roof grills, but the lighting you see there is actually coming in from outside. I'm not sure if the marker lights are actually lit or if that's just bleed over from the cab light. I think an operator would have a hard time seeing the track with the 'dome light' on, but it seems to be standard practice for large scale trains to run with the cab lights on.
Looking up in to the car, you can easily see the 6 cap board. I was trying to get a shot of the conductor standing in the aisle. The red light is from the REVO. I was giving the car a go value of about 1 or 2. Just to get the headlights to come on.
One of several USAT figures I glued in. She was the hottest one in the pack. Frankenstein was sitting two rows back. (Seen above)
Looking down the track. This light seemed brighter in the basement. Still, much better than those old yellow LED's they used to use.
The aristo engineer I glued in the cab of the RPO side seems pretty happy with his new digs. Note the wires were not carefully repositioned by me when I put all of this back together. Everything was really put in well when I opened it up yesterday.
Nothing like railfanning on the test track, eh Marty?
