The era for my logging layout is before the automobile but if there's enough interest, I could develop custom AniLight light profiles for traffic lights. Let me know through poll below:

The Rail Conductor AniLight DCC decoder has a random feature (mode 10) which can bring your city lights to life! The enclosed video shows 15 lights being operated by one AniLight decoder. Normally, all building windows might not be animated but this does put the random mode on display. The speed of auto-toggles (set by CV 521), is fast so the video doesn't take too much website memory. CV 521 was set to 35 (255 is the slowest), 128 is the factory default. At the start of

The AniLight decoder is categorized as a stationary decoder. It's bulk and terminals make rolling stock insertion difficult for smaller scales. But O scale and larger could be considered. And what if this decoder was offered without terminals for customers savvy with a soldering iron? Would you like to see the mode 1 streetlight flicker in your caboose marker lights? Or maybe the regulated 5V outputs would open some doors in your rolling stock. Vote Here: A test is perf

Play the video below and examine the flicker of the streetlight. Looks like real lantern light! And the lighthouse; the ramp up and down in brightness gives the illusion of a rotating beacon! All you have to do to repeat the streetlight is to install an LED (with resistor) on the desired terminal and to the ground terminal and configure each of the up to 16 outputs that you want for his effect and turn it on! Remember to wire the LED leads right (anode goes to the terminal

These instructions are from the AniLight User Guide available for download on the product page under the AniLight description. 1) Connect two stripped DCC wires (operational track not programming track) into the AniLight “DCC” terminals in either order and tighten screws. Note that the wire must be inserted above the metal bar in the terminal opening – the screw pulls the wire up rather than clamp down. 2) Power up the DCC system (LED should repeatedly flash 3 times) to indic

Our trains don't take hours to get to the next town. So many speed up time to make the delivery schedule more challenging with a "fast time clock". This confuses our little people. Let's give them day and night! The video below shows transition from day to night. Here, time is sped up to 500:1 to prevent waiting for minutes to see the effect. Unfortunately, the soft blue moonlight did not come through. The AniLight has a great feature meant to light the layout from abo