Need some assistance with this decorated house

Overall I think the photo turned out decent. But I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to tone down the train on the left side of the pic and the garage doors. I'm still learing and playing with shutter speeds, f stops, and ISO but each time I got these two features of the house to look good, everything else seemed too dark. Is there a good trick in Photoshop or Lightroom that could help with this or is there a method with my photography that I'm missing? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

seems like a good candidate for HDR personally..

Shoot in RAW and burn the train in Photoshop.

Create a second version with the exposure pushed down to where the train looks correct.

Layer this version over that version, add a mask and work the properly exposed train back into the scene.

You could help the levels on the garge doors in this same manner. Nice, crisp looking shot but it just needs a little specific tweaking.

cololeo wrote in post #9255539
Shoot in RAW and burn the train in Photoshop.

I actually did shoot this pic in RAW too. What do you mean by "burn the train?" Sorry, the holidays have melted my brain...

open the raw file, open a copy of the file in photoshop with the exposure you like for the house. Then open the raw file again, adjust the exposure so you like how the train is illuminated. Open that in photoshop, copy the second image, paste it as a layer on top of the first one, then using a layer mask let only the area surrounding the train to show through

Shoot it just a little past twilight (maybe 10 min) where the sky isn't so dark. You will still have a tiny bit ambient to lighten the image up but will still have the christmas lights looking good. Its a trial and error but if you get it will look great.
Here is a link that explains it in greater depth.
http://strobist.blogsp​ot.com …aph-christmas-lights.html

Thanks for your help everyone! I'm heading to my parents house in a little bit (this is their house) so I will get a chance to shoot it again tonight and tomorrow. I'll try the different ideas suggested and see how it turns out. Thanks again!!