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 ?

 

[JCitron]

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 ?

That must've been quite a job, albeit not a very safe one too.
Cedar Hill is located just outside of New Haven, CT proper up in East Haven. This was a substantial yard that was located on the Springfield, MA (Conn-River) line and included a massive coaling facility for steam locomotives and a large hump yard. Today, the yard is stripped way down but still exists and so does the massive coaling tower.

I've seen those lanterns before in various museum collections and at a train show once. They are really beautiful works of art.

 

[JimDep]

Thanks for the info ! I spent most of my grammar school and Jr. High years in Fairfield, CT, and went up the coast a few times to New Haven, fishing with my brother-in-law. They had some sort of a power plant that heated the water a little and attracted fish. ........anyway, there was plenty of NH train activity , so maybe it was nearby and I didn't know it.

Yes, these lanterns are nice looking designs, and I like the ribbing on the cones....like an old Victrola ... ha ! They are similar to the of the old carriage lanterns and early autos. For example, Dietz made a " Night Driver's Friend" lantern that reminds me of how the Inspector lamps looked and functioned. Here's one I just pulled up off the net......except it's been repainted to look new......