What size lamp do I need for a Lionell 6–2170 Street light and where can I get one …
craig
Craig hard to tell without seeing it. They made a lot of replacement for the old # 71 lamp post over the years.
Does it have a bayonet mounted light bulb or a screw in style? Or is it modern era with the very small screw in bulb? 6208653300
If a bayonet style maybe a Lionel L53 bulb if it is a screw in a # 53. Call Jeff at the train tender and ask.
Looking at the pictures here it looks like it would be the #53 screw in bulb.
You can also check here.
Number 53 has a bayonet base (G-3.5, 14.4 V, 120 mA). A comparable screw-base lamp is number 52 (G-3.5, 14.4 V, 100 mA).
The pictures don’t seem to show the bases at all. The bulbs look more like T than G to me. In any case, they may not be original, and the bulb shape probably doesn’t matter anyway.
MPC modified those lamp posts. They do not take a bayonet based or a miniature screw based bulb (like #1447).
They take a midget screw based bulb, Lionel part #2314-300.
By the way, the Lionel Postwar #76 Lamp Post, on which those are based, took a #19 bulb, with a 2-pin base. I guess there might be some 2170 lamp posts that were made with the #19 bulb.