Currently there are a couple of threads on MRH about LED room lighting.  I've posted previously on my MRH blog on my conversion to LED for my layout room and the thread became fairly lengthy.  Thank you to all that posted your comments to that thread!

I've recycled and condensed that thread into a downloadable PDF for those who what a quicker read and I've posted it on my Richlawn Railroad website.  You can follow the link below and right click on the file to download it.

http://richlawnrailroad.com/?page_id=874

I plan to use LED strip lights to light a significant portion of my new layout.  The layout is a mushroom design with 3 levels. I plan to light the lower and middle levels using the LED strip lights. Each strip is 5 meters (about 16 ft) long. I plan to use 2 parallel LED light strips mounted to the bottom of the benchwork of the level above.  Lighting the lower/middle levels will require approximately 30 of these 16ft light strips (240 linear feet * 2 = 480 linear feet of strip lighting).

I threw RailPro modules into my 2 GP38-2W's yesterday to get them onto the layout for an op session today. There was no speaker enclosure in these models so I skipped the sound.

That bothered me something terrible - so today I ripped them apart and did it right!

The details of the installation are in the first comment.

- Bill

I been looking for past post topics of how get started in learning and using the Arduino equipment. From all you experienced users whats the best way to get started. I used to know my way around programing back in the days of turbo pascal fortran rpgii cobol..and some industrial plc programing. Trying to learn jmri now. But its been 20 years. Ive seen some starter kits. What do some of you recommend????