Oil Lamp Projects

[JimDep]

I'm working on a US route from the steam era, so with that is the need for oil lamps.
There's some I've already made and many that I plan to do, from the Dietz Inspector Lamps that the trackwalkers would use, to the Dietz Pioneer Street Lamps , Dressel station wall lamps and a bunch more.
Here's a few that have been done recently and all include 3 LOD reduction modes. Still trying to get the right transparency levels for the globes.
I plan to upload these to the DLS, once I get it all figured out and if anybody is interested. The build numbers are TANE level so I need to get them compatible with TRAINZ 2019 and newer, however I don't have them so I'll have to figure that out too.

This is a Dietz Inspector lamp created from images of the original. Lots of railroads used these, so they were pretty common.

 

[JimDep]

This is a Dressel wall lamp that were common around passenger stations before electricity came in.

 

[JimDep]

While trying to get a closeup of the lantern's globe, the camera got stuck in the station wall.....

 

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[JCitron]

Very nice, Jim.

A coworker once told me about her grandfather. He worked for the New Haven as a signal lamplighter. His job was to light all the lamps located on the switches throughout Cedar Hill Yard. I'm sure he carried one of these lamps as well while out doing his job.

 

[JimDep]

Very nice, Jim.

A coworker once told me about her grandfather. He worked for the New Haven as a signal lamplighter. His job was to light all the lamps located on the switches throughout Cedar Hill Yard. I'm sure he carried one of these lamps as well while out doing his job.

Thanks for sharing that, John., What a great job to have, maybe not so much in the winter, though. Those Dietz Inspector lanterns were used widely across the US rail roads, each RR putting their labels on the them for ownership. They were made in different plants across NY state from the late 1800's through around the 1940's...I think. I've got three of them, still packed from my last move.....ready for my next one so I can display them again on a porch. Where is / was the Cedar Hill Yard ?