Edmund Schwartzel 060518 posted:NJCJOE posted:moed321 posted:I want this:
Where did you see that?
I watch for PRR items on ebay and review completed auctions and saw this had sold as a BIN and I missed it.
I would have paid double or triple for what it sold for in a heart beat! Family is from that area, have people there now and would have loved to have had that.
1948 Operating Rules for NY Central
New Haven conductor's lamp
Rahway Valley hand-completed financial statements and track spike
Dressel switch lamp
Erie switch lock
My Grandad's railroad lantern:
He was a tower operator on the PRR.
Cross-pollination here. 
His last tower was at an interchange with the NYC.
The glass is proper Pennsy though.
My Dad's brass Yale BR&P Ry lock:
My Reading Ramble lapel pin, from the Oct 23, 1960 Iron Horse Ramble:
Have the usual lanterns, locks, signs, etc. My Pappy got me started by giving me a pair of CRR of NJ lanterns when I was 10 and things just took off from there.
Oh my. I've got lots of stuff. Mostly Southern Railroad. My favorite piece is a brass "presentation" lantern given to my father many years ago.
Bill
I've got a B&O caboose lantern, some track spikes and nuts from a 100 plus year old B&O wooden trestle which spanned Hammond Creek at the beginning of the B&O's Patuxent Branch ( which came off the B&O's Washington Branch ). CSX dismantled the trestle some years ago.
Only thing I have is a New Haven Railroad coffee mug that I bought 25 years ago, which has almost completely faded.
It now looks like a ghost NHRR coffee mug. LOL, Arnold
This item in my collection is very useful as a small anvil:
For several years we lived beside the Somerset-Johnstown branch of the B&O. One day the Sperry flaw-detector car came through and left a paint mark on the track. It must have been a bad flaw because several days later a crew showed up with a piece of re-lay rail and proceeded to replace a section of rail. They needed to cut off a bit to make it fit and I later carried off that bit they had left behind.
Found this clock last year at a shop in Adamstown, PA. It's an employees time clock for punching your time card in and out of work. Still works although the ink ribbon could use replacement.
Wanted to share my small obsession with B & O China. Been collecting for years, early Lamberton in the photos but we have another large collection of Shenango that we use everyday. 
It aint much but its what I got; a reprint of a New York Central Poster and my railroad tin-sign collection (still growing). The big tins are reissues from recent years, but the small ones are Vintage Post Cereal tins from 1954 and 1955. They're hanging under my loft while the poster has been framed and hung in another part of my room.
And yes, we do plan on replacing the ugly push-pins soon with something smaller and less protruding, we're just having trouble finding small enough nails that can fit those tiny holes.
NJCJOE posted:Just planted this in the yard. A concrete whistle post from the Lehigh & Hudson River.
Should be a whole crop of sprouts in the spring!
I would love to have more. All I have is a heavily faded New Haven coffee mug, my favorite mug, that I bought 25 years ago at the Choo Choo Barn. LOL, Arnold
rail posted:NJCJOE posted:Just planted this in the yard. A concrete whistle post from the Lehigh & Hudson River.
Should be a whole crop of sprouts in the spring!
Wouldn't that be nice. 
It's a CZ kind of day so from my Timetable collection:
Here are some photos of an Adams & Westlake "Queen" conductor's lantern. It has a patent date of 1868. The first photos show what the lantern looked like when I first got it and how it turned out after I had the nickel re-plated and added an original green over clear globe.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Joe,
You now have a beautiful lamp. Merry Christmas to you and all.
Tom
I recently found this Lee Jeans "Buddy Lee" advertising doll at an antique show. It is from the 1930s, and most likely from a display in a Milwaukee Road company store. These were not sold to the general public. It has a 6-32 nut molded into one foot to fasten it to a base or display. I had to repaint the facial features and boots. It is about 12" tall without the base.
NJCJOE posted:Here are some photos of an Adams & Westlake "Queen" conductor's lantern. It has a patent date of 1868. The first photos show what the lantern looked like when I first got it and how it turned out after I had the nickel re-plated and added an original green over clear globe.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Wow, what a beauty!
NJCJOE posted:A few more items from my collection.
A switch stand of unknown origin.
CRR of NJ brass fire extinguisher.
Great Northern marker lamp.
Lehigh Valley whistle sign.
1 track sign.
Miscellaneous stuff.
Headlight from Erie Lackawanna MU.
Perhaps I asked this question a couple of years ago, but is your Dressel Great Northern marker lamp marked for the RR?
I have an old railroad lock that I picked up at a train show this year. I think it is marked with Northern Pacific, but I haven't seen it since I bought it, so I am not sure. My wife wanted me to buy it. She also wanted me to buy an old tie plate with track spikes. I wasn't really into it, but she said it would look good on the wall in my train room and it was only 5 bucks, so I bought it. I might add a lantern at some point. I really want a semaphore head, but that isn't going to happen.
I have a full-size Milwaukee switch stand that holds my mailbox. I welded the switch arm in the up position which is parallel to the ground and attached the box to it.
Dick
Jeff B. Haertlein posted:NJCJOE posted:A few more items from my collection.
Great Northern marker lamp.
Perhaps I asked this question a couple of years ago, but is your Dressel Great Northern marker lamp marked for the RR?
You did. I mistakenly said that lamp was from the GN Ry., however it isn't. I do have a square top Dressel marked for the GN Ry.
NJCJOE,
I have a switch stand that is original, unpainted but weathered very nice. I notice yours has been restored. It appears to have been powder coated as apposed to spray painted gloss black. Is that correct? If so, did you do it your self or have someone do it for you?
One of these days, I'll post photos of my 22 RR lanterns and some of my other unique items, especially the ATSF lighter with a music box that plays the Santa Fe them song.
Ray
My wife bought me this crossbuck for Christmas. Since it's new old stock (never used), I don't know if it truly meets the definition of railroadiana, but I still like it.
John
This weekend I was able to move to my house stuff that had been in storage, including a dozen lanterns and a bell.
Sinclair,
NICE bell. What engine did it come off of? I would kill for a bell, but they are currently out of my budget.
RAY
Ray of sunshine posted:NJCJOE,
I have a switch stand that is original, unpainted but weathered very nice. I notice yours has been restored. It appears to have been powder coated as apposed to spray painted gloss black. Is that correct? If so, did you do it your self or have someone do it for you?
Ray
No. I clean my switch stands with a wire brush and scraper the best I can. Then I simply paint with a brush using Rustoleum gloss black paint. Mine typically last 5-10 years before they need to be redone.
Finished a little project. Made a display for my two B&O wrenches. Walnut frame around a scrap piece of “African mahogany” (industry term for assorted African trees that have some similar qualities of mahogany).
Hay Joe,
Noticed your L&HRRR whistle post on the forum and it reminds me of when I had gotten mine in the Allamuchy area of N.J. in the woods. That sucker had to weigh around 300 lbs. Concrete with rebar support. I broke my a__ __ taking that thing out of the woods. Went back at a later date and got about 1/2 dozen wet cells still in the ground vault. Used rubber gloves just in case there was still a strong concentrate of hydrochloric acid in the rain filled vault. At a later date I found a single head target, complete, except for spectrum (gone). The funny part of the whole thing to others, of the story, is that when I opened the back of the target cover to see if the spectrum was inside, out jumped a squirrel and I almost had a heart attack and came close to falling off of the signalman's platform. DON'T LAUGH!!! Loved doing this once in awhile! We'll have to get together to check some other areas out sometime!
Steam Forever
John
Not sure where to post this so I thought I would try here. Neat item and almost complete. Many individual cards, most about 1 inch by 3/4 of an inch except the engines and passenger cars.
I was offered one half of an old glass bead cross buck that a friend has. Some of the beads are missing from the en casements, and I'm wondering if these are available anywhere. They are about 3/4" to 1" in diameter, and probably about 1/4" thick. I can easily make the other half of the crossbuck, and the round recesses for the glass, hence my question about the glass.
One of many books in my collection.
One of the other things is a complete windmill.
I just received this B&O Adlake marker lamp with the four brackets an unusual design used by the B&O. Has anyone else seen these?
rail posted:I was offered one half of an old glass bead cross buck that a friend has. Some of the beads are missing from the en casements, and I'm wondering if these are available anywhere. They are about 3/4" to 1" in diameter, and probably about 1/4" thick. I can easily make the other half of the crossbuck, and the round recesses for the glass, hence my question about the glass.
Don,
They are called cat's eyes. They do show up on Ebay once in a while but they are expensive.
I see some very nice items in this thread. Dad's father was a train auditor for the B&O. His job was to ride the trains un-announced and take over the conductor's books. The goal was to prevent / discover theft.
I also have some original Lamberton B&O china and a pair of interesting locomotive cufflinks (quite probably Grandpa's). Just don't have pictures of them.
NJCJOE posted:rail posted:I was offered one half of an old glass bead cross buck that a friend has. Some of the beads are missing from the en casements, and I'm wondering if these are available anywhere. They are about 3/4" to 1" in diameter, and probably about 1/4" thick. I can easily make the other half of the crossbuck, and the round recesses for the glass, hence my question about the glass.
Don,
They are called cat's eyes. They do show up on Ebay once in a while but they are expensive.
Thanks Joe, I'll look into it. Making the other half of the cross buck will be simple, so I guess the expensive part will be the details. Thanks for the heads up.
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