Jack Williams donated railroad lamps and lanterns to the Portage Station Museum, where they are on display through Dec. 31. Mirror photo by Alicia Chiang PORTAGE — Retired coal mine and railroad ...

Collectors of railroad or train memorabilia are constantly trying to track down items that interest them. Their interest ranges from tickets to timetables to dishes. Some collectors specialize in a ...

Doug: My father picked this old Rock Island railroad lantern up somewhere in his travels. I am curious if you can tell me anything about it and what it’s worth. Dear John: Your dusty lantern compelled ...

This restoration breathes new life into an old Dietz railroad lantern, carefully restoring its structure and glow. A ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This railroad hand-signal kerosene ...

This is a circa-1900 kerosene-fueled switch lamp, probably manufactured by R.E. Dietz, of New York, says Bruce Gamage, of Rockland’s Gamage Antiques. At the time, a railroad switch would have been ...

Morphy Auctions – the Denver-based auction house – will hold a two-day auction on Oct. 3 and 4 that will be of special interest to collectors of automobile and railroad memorabilia. Bidding on the ...

Watch as a 1950s railroad flame lantern is carefully restored to its former glory. From rusted relic to glowing masterpiece, ...

One recent Saturday afternoon, Bob Gorran was showing a visitor around the new Millbrae Train Museum, located in the old Caltrain depot a few hundred feet south of the BART/Caltrain station. Gorran, ...

I greatly enjoyed the “flanger” snow-plowing tourist train story. Let’s have more local-train stories, shall we? But hold the train – did I read correctly in the story that crew members’ breath was ...

MARLBORO, N.Y. >> Local collectors Dave Lewis and Alex Prizgintas will present “Railroad Lanterns and Their Globes of Orange County” on Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The event will be hosted by The Hudson ...