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I was lucky enough to buy a Southern Lantern which appears to have never been used (maybe it is a reproduction?) and would like to light it.
It is stamped with "Use Only Long Lasting Oil". What is the correct fuel to use? I was thinking kerosene but now not so sure. Thanks, Allen Cain -- Allen Cain Modeling the Southern in 1955 in HO Scale
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D. Scott Chatfield
What model and make is it? I use regular lamp oil in my lanterns, not kerosene. Scott Chatfield
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From: Allen Cain <Allencaintn@...> Date: 03/11/2021 11:27 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "main@SouthernRailway.groups.io" <main@southernrailway.groups.io> Subject: [SouthernRailway] Southern Lantern Fuel I was lucky enough to buy a Southern Lantern which appears to have never been used (maybe it is a reproduction?) and would like to light it.
It is stamped with "Use Only Long Lasting Oil". What is the correct fuel to use? I was thinking kerosene but now not so sure. Thanks, Allen Cain -- Allen Cain Modeling the Southern in 1955 in HO Scale
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Lamp oil is the way to go.
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Do you have a pic of the lantern? Todd P
On Mar 11, 2021, at 11:06 PM, D. Scott Chatfield <blindog@...> wrote:
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Felix Freeman
Anytime a locomotive consist is readied and offered for service there is a checklist of required supplies. These requirements vary from railroad to railroad and have evolved over a period of time. In the early 70s Pegram Shop was still in business and dispatching locomotives for the passenger trains. One of the required items on each consist was a red globe kerosene lantern. At that time I was recently hired and working there and decided that I needed one. I found out that these lanterns were supplied and purchased from The Noland Company. Noland was a hardware and industrial supply company. Southern did a lot of business with these people over the years. One day I had the opportunity to go to their place of business with the intent of purchasing one. The salesman led me to a room where there was a huge pile of these lanterns. He told me to take my pick and I bought one. For $4.00. I still have this. It is my only Southern lantern. Somewhere I still have my receipt.
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Now that’s an excellent story. I wish I could find a spot that sold them for four bucks a pop.
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On Mar 12, 2021, at 9:12 AM, Felix Freeman <freeman.felix@...> wrote:
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Stephen Warner
While the roads used kerosene, use lamp oil. I guarantee that if you burn kerosene at home, your wife, kids, dogs and cats will kick you out of the house - it smells and belongs in a depot or caboose. Only problem with old lanterns is that there is kerosene residual that will smell half a century later, regardless of using newer lamp oil.
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D. Scott Chatfield
Older lanterns burned animal oil, for several reasons. The important reason for us collectors is the older glass can not take the heat of kerosene fire. The demand for animal oil increased a great deal during the First World War, and the government asked the lantern makers to figure how to make their lanterns burn kerosene, which was becoming more plentiful by the day. Corning Glass developed the first globes that could withstand kerosene, but it needed a smaller frame. This drove the development of the "short globe" lanterns. So aside from the smell, kerosene might also break the globe. Unless the word KERO is cast into the globe do not burn kerosene in it. Scott Chatfield
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aramsay18
Wasn't whale oil also used in the early 1900's for lanterns? Andy Ramsay Berryville VA
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 6:35 PM D. Scott Chatfield <blindog@...> wrote:
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Bill Schafer
Fascinating tidbit, Scott - I never knew that. Thanks.
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