Railroad furniture

Great find and excellent restoration.

Not quite furniture, but close:  I have a St. Louis Car & Wheel company coal  stove that came out of a TRRA of St. Louis caboose:

Pardon the goofy angle:  I had trouble getting in line for a good, vertical shot.

It is underneath part of the layout yard (looks like it's holding it up, but it really isn't).  Several pieces (the top has a crack) and VERY HEAVY.  The vent on top is a big oval, and I have never found any chimney pipe that will fit.  I don't light it--would make my home insurance provider VERY unhappy!  But I do put flickering mini-lights in it during the winter for mood.

Pallalin - In the late 60's visited the Burlington's Eola (IL) Reclamation Plant often, where many 19th century waycars (cabooses) were being scrapped.  Made a feeble attempt to make off with a waycar stove and a cupola chair, but too heavy (#1) and too securely attached (#2). You have a  nice momento of the golden age of railroading.

Chris, thank you for the kind words !

On the subject of repurposed railroad fixtures, I have salvaged roundhouse windows in one end of my porch. They block the rain and snow which blows in mostly from that direction. Only three of the 18 panes have original glass.

Ace - Very creative !      Where was the roundhouse and what railroad?

It was the Southern Pacific roundhouse in Klamath Falls Oregon. Built in the 1920's when the recently completed Natron cutoff replaced the Siskiyou route as the north-south mainline. Torn down in 1994. A Google tells me that the turntable was removed in 2014 and is now used by UP in Fort Worth Texas. Photo above is from 1994 with demolition beginning.

I also salvaged this light fixture from the same roundhouse and used it over my kitchen table for many years. Please excuse the background clutter.

Ace - Your light fixture probably elicits thoughts of what locomotives and crew members from steam days were being lit by  it !   

A good save.

@mark s posted:

Ace - Your light fixture probably elicits thoughts of what locomotives and crew members from steam days were being lit by  it !   

A good save.

I passed up several other lights like that which were heavily smoked by decades in an active roundhouse. If those lights had been cameras, imagine the views of different locos through the years! Cab forwards, etc.

I also salvaged a 1920's-style light switch with two push buttons. Still works, I have it wired up to run a 12-volt fan in my house.

The Klamath Falls roundhouse was a relatively "modern" structure with a reinforced concrete framework. It was unfortunate that it wasn't saved. It had become a maintenance and tax burden, a redundant facility and a target of window-breaking vandals.

I picked this up in an antique shop in Harlingen, Texas.  Not quite the end of the  world but you can see it from here.

Bill DeB - Wow, what a nice piece!   Almost makes a person want to take up smoking again  !!  (not)

Ace - Klamath Falls is a sentimental favorite railroad town for me - Southern Pacific Cab Forwards, "Decs", Yellowstones (off the Modoc Line) and great Northern 2-8-8-0's and 2-10-2's; some real railroading.  Was there about 25 years ago and a couple of SP steam wrecking derricks were there.  Yes......steam derricks !