City Street Lights

Art,

I make a pretty scale street light in brass with 12 volt incandescent bulb.

I will take a better picture and send to you if you are interested.

Andre.

Andre - I have admired your lights for a long time after seeing pictures of them on Frank's layout. I am looking for a much plainer style that are or were in most American cities. It would also be great to have LED's in them to prevent having to replace bulbs on them.

 

Art

Art!

if you have a picture of the style you want let me know.

bulb or LED is not a big deal.

Andre.

I found these street lights on eBay, which I really like.  Matt

Price reflect the quality...

AG.

The closest lights that I have seen are these on Lee Willis' layout. I have tried to contact him, but haven't had any luck yet to find out where he got them.

Art, use Walthers HO with extended poles....

 

Lamp photo -

http://steves3roscale.shutterfly.com/pictures/4705

 

Steve

 

Steve - That sounds like a very good suggestion. Thanks!

 

Art

Art:

 

I encourage you to send Andre a photo of what you would like to have and he will build it exactly to your specifications. Many times I have sent him a rambling description of some part I need to have made from brass. Just from my description, he send me a sketch and a day later a photo of the part he made - street signs, lamp posts, a brass scaffold, water tanks. He is a great craftsman and a valuable resource, not to mention an honest good guy.

I just learned the price of Walthers three packs of gooseneck lights are moving to $18.95 MSRP with the next shipment - that's up from $12.95. The ones you refer to and all others in that line will be taking a similar jump due to manufacturing resource issues in China. There's a rant on the subject -- >>  Walthers Price Rant.

How about these MTH-Lionel 

I made a mold of a 60’s cobra head lamp cover and melted hot glue into it.

 

Eyeglass nose pieces can be modified to model street lamp head covers.

Cover half way with shrink tubing to hold and conceal the mini led.

Both of the covers above can be sprayed silver.

All depends how exact you want to be.

 

As for prices, all train items have doubled or tripled in the last 16 months.

I was lucky to finish the layout and O collection before all this happened.

 

But the new 2 rail layout idea has been scrapped mainly on principal not cost.

I'm just not paying the new O scale asking prices.

Found on ebay:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/T89-20pcs-Model-Trains-Lamppost-LED-lamp-O-HO-105mm-12v-/260782242793?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item3cb7d53be9

 

I have NOT tried these lights but I have bought from this supplier, good service and items were as described.  Russ

Art 

 

any of these

Art, I've built my own for year. Buy Walthers brass HO street light and just replace the old pole part with a longer brass pole. They come in three different styles. Two types of single lamps and a double type with two lamps. Don

 

 

While certainly an option, the 50% price increase Walthers just instituted on this product line has an impact. In 2007, these were $7.99. Last month, they were $12.95. With the next shipment, MSRP on these is going to $18.95.

 

Let me go look. Lucky I bought a box of these light a few years ago. Don

Of course I can't find the box of lights and I don't see them on the HO Walthers web site. Maybe Harry knows. I'll keep looking. Don

There are some nice ones on eBay. Just search  O gauge street lights.

 

 http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...+lights&_sacat=0

I use "HO" street lamps as-is. They may not be scale, but they look "more correct" to me than many of the "O" ones.

Life-Like "HO" Expressway Lights are perfect for lighting parking/car lots as well as roadways. They are metal, inexpensive, and actually light the area.

Hand made O scale street lamp.

the base is just a mock up, can be removed or changed.

Andre.

 

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Art,

 

I was also looking for street lights for my small main street.

I ended up making my own from Evergreen plastic and leds from

a string of Christmas lights.

 

 

Dave - Your lights look very good and so does your layout. I really like the look of your town so far.

 

Art

I know this is an old thread, but it is from this thread that I learned about the lamp poles crafted by Andre Garcia (AG).  I was looking for some quality lamp poles to mount on my Maryville Station platform and learned about AG's work.  I ordered some of his lamp poles and mounted them to the platform.  Here is a photo of the completed platform.

 

 

 

I really like the way the platform turned out thanks in large part to AG's distinctive and realistic looking lamp poles.  Thanks, AG.

 

Looking at the photo are there any other details that would be appropriate to add to this 1940's-1950's era station platform?  Your ideas would be appreciated.  Bo 

 

 

Visit my website Bo's Trains at http://www.bostrains.com  Thanks!

Bo,

You made the right choice.

Andre is a master of brassmanship.

 

Scrappy

There are some Brawa HO scale street lights that will work well for O Scale.