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My layout is in the bonus room of our house, which is located above the garage, and the 'walls' are made up mostly of the ceiling, which follows the slant of the roof (aka the room is shaped like this.... __ / \ / |______| I have only one light fixture in the room, which is a single bulb 100 watt fixture. The room was prewired with a light switch and a separate fan switch, so I thought what I could do would be replace the single bulb fixture with two 4 foot, 2 tube flourescent fixtures (thus a total of 8 feet) along the horizontal top of the ceiling (which is only about 3 feet wide, but runs the length of the room) and then use the 'fan' switch to control separate lighting over the layout. I'll probably have to snake alot of wires through the ceiling to make it work, but I have an electrician friend who can help with that. My question is.... should I go with track lighting or recessed "eyeball" lighting (eyeball type recessed lights have a 30 degree tilt that you can aim the light)? Which would be easier to install, and which would give me better layout lighting? When I'm working on the layout, I'll probably just use the overhead flourescents, but when I have company over, or when I'm actually running trains, I want the more natural 'sunlit' look of incandescent bulbs over the layout. And also, is it worth the trouble to do both flourescent and the overhead layout lighting? Who else has done something like this?
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