This restoration breathes new life into an old Dietz railroad lantern, carefully restoring its structure and glow. A satisfying transformation for lovers of antique lighting and railroad history.

Jack Williams donated railroad lamps ... a local antique dealer who grew up in New England, identified William’s lanterns as mostly manufactured by the R.E. Dietz company. Jack Williams holds ...

Doug: My father picked this old Rock Island railroad lantern up somewhere in ... Therefore, though it may appear to be a primitive antique, it could, in fact, be of recent origin.

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 ...

When they needed the perfect place to keep their collection of antique railroad lanterns, they built it themselves right here in the city of Snohomish. The Ferguson house is a board-for-board ...

All that said, my oil lanterns ... antique glass lamps is difficult, as I found when I visited a local hardware store recently and discovered they had no lamp oil. So I understand why our local ...