Prices on 3D printers are coming down significantly, to the point I feel I can justify one. I can’t afford (or use inside my future residence) a resin printer, which would obviously be the best and most expensive option in current technology, particularly for smaller scales... so I’m looking at filament printers, with enough print space to do N scale objects 100 feet long at a minimum, and with resolution as high as possible, while keeping the cost within my limited budget. I know there will unavoidably be artifacts such as layers, but I want to minimize them.

Early this week, a Pittman Freight Motor in O scale, that I had bought online, arrived in the mail. Seeing the size of the car, the detail, and how much fun it was to operate, made me realize that I really wanted to have more O scale trolley equipment. Unfortunately, there isn’t much out there that is readily available, and my preferred prototypes, line cars, are even rarer in model form than photographs of real ones! So I decided, for better or worse, I was going to build my own.

  Costco stores have 4 foot twin tube LED shop lights on sale for $17.99 . They are 4000 lumens, 4000K temp ,ready to hang with plug and chains and screw hooks.  I swapped out the last of my workshop fluorescent lights with them  today and bought a couple extra  units  in case I ever want to add some more to my train room. I installed similar units in my layout room a couple of years ago and have been very happy with them. The current sale price is the lowest I've seen them over the last two years or so .....DaveB