It is a bit late, yeah but I did want to show off some of the stuff I got this past Christmas. My wife went out of her way to find me some awesome train related items. She found a dealer on that Etsy site, which is actually entertaining and does have trains for sale, that had good train items.
One is a lantern from 1901 that used by the Southern Railway. It is a bit beat up but clearly used and has traceablity on it to authenticate it! Unfortunately I don't have a picture of it yet...
The second item is this Southern Pacific logo in brass. The dealer had bought it from someone who had found it while walking an abandoned/torn up old SP right-of-way out in California. Unfortunately we cannot determine what it came from or it's use... But it still looks really cool!
And the third item is an SP engineer's guidebook from the 60s! It is well worn and not exactly a collectible item of value but I certainly love it. To give you an idea of the age of the item, it shows pictures of where to place marker lights on steam locomotives. Yeah, steam.
Anyways, that is all for now. Back to the layout construction!
