This weekend I enlisted a couple "volunteers" to help install some lighting for my staging yard.  Trains are actively staged during the session, and the lack of lighting was something of a hindrance.

Here's how things looked before.  The folding stool at the corner of the aisle is where the staging operator normally sits.  The car card boxes for staging are on the adjacent fascia, along with the phone for communicating with the dispatcher.  The yard is 10 tracks wide and two feet deep along this wall.  All the turnouts along the right hand side of the yard in this view are controlled with accessory decoders and macros.  The Junction City yard is right on top of staging, but its operator usually stands where I was when taking the photo, minimizing interference between the two.

Here's the same view with the new lights on.  I used a 48' LED rope light found at the local Walmart.  It has a smooth surface so there isn't much of a "sparkle" compared to many rope lights which have ridges.  It casts fairly even light which is quite tolerable, if somewhat bluer than the daylight CFL room lights.

When I designed the fascia, I intended for some kind of low-profile light to be mounted behind it, so I left about an inch projecting below the benchwork on the top deck.  Since the rope is only about 1/2" in diameter, it stays hidden behind the fascia.  We mounted the light to the 1X3 on the front edge of the layout using 1/2" plastic cable clamps (from the Home Depot electrical aisle) installed with screws.  The screws run into the top deck cross-members which are spaced 16" apart.