Here are more photos from the the November, 2010 Railroad, Steamship,and Transportation Artifacts Show
held in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Use your BACK button to return from the large photos.
Above left to right. A CG&C (Cape Girardeau & Chester?) bellbottom lantern; a "Pennsylvania Lines" (PRR) bellbottom "Casey" lantern; a Monongahela Railway "Reliable" lantern with an amber-etched globe; a Northern Central brasstop lantern with a clear cast globe.
Above left to right. A Norfolk & Southern "Casey" lantern; a Handlan lantern from the PRR with a green-etched "Penn Lines" globe; a conductor's lantern with a green-over-clear globe; an early Vesta lantern from the Western Maryland with a clear cast globe.
Above left to right. A Steam Gauge bellbottom lantern from the Western Maryland with a clear cast globe; a early NYC Dietz Vesta; closeup of the globe in the Vesta with its unusual, rare marking; two sets of Wabash builders' plates from early diesel locomotives.
Above left to right. A sprue of castback locks from the N&W; a glass bathroom window from a B&O car; a couple of famous Gaithersburg chili dogs; possibly the star of the show: a Dietz bellbottom lantern from the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac-Washington Southern with a blue cast globe.
