Railroadiana Items In Your Collection

That was a thought........

I have these on my front porch, I'm going to light the signal I have all the thing's to do it .

Guy

Very cool Guy. Most of my switch lamps are lit as well as this signal that sits in front of the garage.

some P&LE door seals, tie nails, and a few PRR items.

I collect mostly railroad lanterns.  That's been my main passion.  But I do have a handful of other items such as wax seals, locks, baggage tags, etc.

http://www.jeffpolston.com/lantern.htm

This is a great thread.  So much eye candy.

It's mostly Santa Fe memorabilia in our collection.  Too much to post here.  But these are a few of my favorites:

Scout Sign:

El Capitan Hi-Level wall decoration:

Santa Fe China collection:

Lounge car themed train room:

More on this room can be seen here: https://ogrforum.com/t...ly=45918751373027568

If you'd like to see more of our collection, here is a link to a photo website of our train memorabilia:

Train Memorabilia

a deck of SP playing cards...

JeffPo posted:

I collect mostly railroad lanterns.  That's been my main passion.  But I do have a handful of other items such as wax seals, locks, baggage tags, etc.

http://www.jeffpolston.com/lantern.htm

 

Jeff,

I have seen your website before. Very nice. Welcome to the Forum.

Some more shots around the yard. Most of these have probably been posted at one point or another before but in case anybody missed them here they are.

NJCJOE posted:

JeffPo posted:

I collect mostly railroad lanterns.  That's been my main passion.  But I do have a handful of other items such as wax seals, locks, baggage tags, etc.

http://www.jeffpolston.com/lantern.htm

 

Jeff,

I have seen your website before. Very nice. Welcome to the Forum.

Thanks!  It's a labor of love.  I'm trying to get a layout going for my model trains.  I've got a room for it, but it's full of junk at the moment.  Don't really have much time to follow forums and such, but I'll pop out here from time to time.  I'm currently going through the many, many pages of posts so you may see me resurrecting some old ones.   

And some more.

One more set.

NJCJOE posted:

One more set.

Holy moly!  You've got a LOT of BIG stuff!  Neat!

Joe,
Do you know why your milepost has two different numbers? Here is a clue.

Western Maryland shovel &hammer, and B&O shovel, CSX modern lantern.  PRR lantern, Milwaukee Road lantern with red globe, Conrail hard hat. Spike removers, jack, E Bell. And hopefully one day a Nathan K5LLA

Big Jim posted:

Joe,
Do you know why your milepost has two different numbers? Here is a clue.

Yes. this is a PRR mile post. One number, in this case the 8, was how many miles it was to Belvidere, NJ and the other number, 30, was how many miles to Trenton, NJ.

Jim, where is your milepost from?

3 lanterns, 2 NYC and 1 M&StL.  2 sets of Chessie playing cards I found in the attic last summer.  An RPO employee ID card given to me years ago by the man whom it was issued to.  An N&W rulebook from the late 70's.  Too many spikes to count.  And a large cinder, dropped east of Akron in 1993 by the 2765.

I have a few lanterns, a switch lamp, and some rulebooks etc.  A friend, however, has more railroad stuff in his house than some museums I've been in.  Lanterns, number boards, several bookshelves' worth of paper, a B&O dwarf signal, full set of crossbucks & flashers, marker lamps, you name it.  Sorry I don't have any pics, it's impressive to say the least.

I was fortunate to find an old typewriter  desk, where I build my models. The middle swings up out of the way, where I keep the beginnings of some telegraph equipment.

NJCJOE posted:

One more set.