KatoUSA, Inc. N Passenger Car Light Kit, White LED (6), KAT11212

Very good lighting kits, Great design, one LED evening lights the car. Kato makes very good high quality products.

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When installed correctly, these look great. They cast an even light throughout the cabin, and everything has obviously been very well engineered and machined.I have them on a DCC layout, though apparently they work on DC layouts just as well. It will probably take you about 15 minutes for the first car, and then 2-3 minutes for each one after that.For me, I found the following to be helpful:1) On the lamp portion, give the pins a slight bend so they have some "spring" into the metal contact strips. This will also help hold everything in place.2) Pay attention so how the lightboard goes in place. The light is in the back of the car, and the front of the top (which you remove to install the lighting it) is marked with an arrow (at least it was on my Amtrak Intercities). The light panel should snap, or at least sit in place, when it is seated correctly.3) Consider putting a small piece of electrical tape underneath the lamp piece. Just like 1cm x 1/2cm, enough to block light shining down on those first two rows of seats. With this in place, the lighting across the car is much more even.The kit also contains six (and exactly six) orange pieces of plastic which can be mounted on the lamp piece to help diffuse and "warm" the color a bit. The effect is subtle, but I think it more closely matches the lighting I've seen on the rails, so I'd recommend at least giving them a try.

good product, fast service

My kit arrived in 2 weeks from Japan. The instructions were in English as well as Japanese. With a little tutoring from YouTube, I found these lights easy to install in my Kato Super Chief Passenger Car set. It was necessary; however, to shorten the light diffuser for the Vista Valley car due to the outside lights already installed. For those who found that they needed to press on the car to make the lights work, you need to redo your installation. Most likely you have inserted the light diffuser too far back and have created pressure against the light unit. You may also have bent one or both sets of contact strips. If the light is not being sent all the way to the other end of the car, the light diffuser is either upside down or too far away from the LED. When properly installed, these lights are excellent. I did not use the color filter because I liked the color of the light as is. These filters require removing the light board from the plastic unit for insertion. This is very hard in N scale. I wouldn't bother if I were you.

I RECENTLY PURCHASSED THE KATO N SCALE PASSENGER CAR LIGHTING KIT ..WHEN I GOT THE KIT I LOOKED AT ALL THE PARTS AND THOUGHT THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE FUN!!!! COME TO FIND OUT I READ AND REREAD THE INSTRUCTIONS AND EVEN WATCHED A VIDEO AND AM VERY HAPPY TO SAY IT LOOKS TO BE A COMPLECATED JOB BUT ITS NOT...THE FIRST CAR WAS A BIT TRICKY BUT THE NEXT 5 CARS WERE NO PROBLEM AT ALL ...THE REAL BONUS IS WHEN ALL THE CARS ARE ON THE TRACK AND YOU TURN YOUR LAY OUT LIGHTS OFF AND YOU WATCH THE PASSENGER CARS ROLL BY WITH ALL THE LIGHTS ON...LOOKS GREAT HELPFUUL HINT ...I BOUGHT ABOUT 50 N SCALED SEATED PEOPLE PAINTED THEM AND GLUED THEM IN THE SEATS BEFOR ADDDING THE LIGHTING KIT THE RESULTS IS FANTASTIC...I REALLY RECOMEND THE LIGHTING KIT AND BUYING THE SEATED PASSENGERS.....LOOKS GREAT AND IS A LOT OF FUN....

Adds a nice lighting effect to Kato passenger cars. Install varies depending on type cars. Some were pretty easy, some were hard and took some trial and error to get working, but worth the effort.

Kato is a great company, I had higher expectations for the passenger car illumination from this light set. It does not work in all train cars, the plastic light diffuser prevents the car body from being reassembled, so you have to set them aside. In others, their is no way to mount them so the rattle around inside the body of the car. Installation is tricky and requires some skill. The indirect light filter a very small, but not that hard when you figure out how to do it. Very hard to install on the Union Pacific exclusion cars, much easier on the New Your Central cars. After the expense and the work you end up with poorly lighted cars with most or all of the light at one end only...