Shows: Gaithersburg '06

Here are more photos of the Railroad, Steamship,and Transportation Artifacts Show held in Gaithersburg, Maryland, November of 2006. This page shows more lanterns.

Above left to right. A Handlan lantern marked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad with a clear, unmarked globe; an Armspear lantern marked for the Northern Central Railroad with a clear cast globe; an Adams & Westlake "Reliable" lantern marked for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad with a clear cast "logo" globe; a brasstop lantern marked for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad with a red cast globe; an Adams & Westlake bellbottom lantern marked for the Rutland Railroad with an unmarked amber globe.
Above left to right. A switchman's lantern made by Adams & Westlake with a Lehigh Valley Railroad clear cast globe; a brasstop lantern marked for the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad; a Dietz "Vesta" lantern with a *fake* green-over-clear globe (note the line between the two colors); an Adams & Westlake "Reliable" lantern marked for the Virginian Railroad with a red cast globe; an Adams & Westlake bellbottom lantern marked for the Wabash Railroad with a clear cast "logo" globe.
Above left to right. A lantern [manufacturer?] marked for the Western Maryland Railroad with a clear cast globe; an Adams & Westlake lantern marked for the Western Maryland Railroad with a green cast globe; an Adams & Westlake lantern marked for the Western Maryland Railway with a clear cast "W Md Ry" globe; an Adams & Westlake lantern marked for the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railroad with a clear, unmarked globe.
Above left to right. Two Boston & Albany Railroad "Vesta" lanterns made by Dietz with amber and blue globes; two Adams & Westlake #250 (probably) lanterns, one with an Erie Railroad red cast globe; a box of globe retainers; a lineup of Dietz "Vestas" with different colored globes, all marked for the Boston & Maine Railroad.

Gaithersburg '06 Links.....

All photos by Rob Hoffer.