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I was also unsatisfied with the brightness of the lights on my Kato SD70MACs and SD90MAC. It is the clear pieces of plastic that are the problem. They diffuse a lot of light. You can replace them with fiber optic strands if you are feeling adventerous, but the easy fix is to substitute a brighter LED. Although LEDs certainly CAN be dimmed, they shouldnt be on your loco unless you have a decoder installed and have programmed the light to be dim. A lot of people say LEDs arent as good as bulbs for flashing lights becuase they dont dim as well, but I think they work just as well as long as you program to accomodate the LED. LEDs light up with less power than bulbs, and you can really only see a change in brightness at the low end of thier power range where as bulbs dim and brighten pretty evenly along thier entire power scale.
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