Is this type of lamppost existing in HO scale?
If you do not need an operating lamp, Bowser Trains makes a similar lamppost in white metal under their Selley brand: http://www.bowser-trains.com/docs/HO%20Selley/Selley%20Drawings%20Page%203.jpg
Prices here: http://bowser-trains.com/docs/Prices/Selley%20Prices.htm
George V.
Make them you can!
Use a coffe stirrer, the kind with two channels. They are available at WalMart.
Put an LED (with resistor on moe leg) on top with the leads fished through the stirrer. You can leave the LED as is, you can embelish it with pits of plastic, or you can do as I have done and put a flat shade on top of it.
Certainly this time of year you can buy them with plastic dodoads on them which may fill the bill by itself.
They take paint real well, these were painted dark green, one of NYCT’s two colors for such equipages. The flat tops were thumbtacks, painted to match the poles, with the points then cut off and glued to the top of the LED. For your shape, a small dab of clear silcone caulk may be used to form the top. Perfect it might not be. Good enought is good enough: Perfect is a pain in the pocketbook.
ROAR
Check out this site.
Mel
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield
Walthers has what you are looking for…
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/949-4304
or
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/949-4305
As LION says, they can get pricey. I have found them on sale in the Walthers Flyer. It seems to me that the Walthers streetlights have jumped up in price recently. I bought mine some time ago and they were pretty reasonable when on sale.
They use a nice socket system so you can swap out any style of lamp they offer or you can remove them if you need some elbow room when working in the area.
I’ve also bought several from Ebay sources like Mel points out. These can be very reasonable and are pretty decent looking.
Good Luck, Ed
Ed is correct about the Walthers lights, the socket system is slick. They are pricy compared to the direct from China stuff and I haven’t found any with sockets. The China lights are nicely detailed and look very good, especially at 10 for the price of one Walthers. I use both on my layout.
I have hundreds of hours on incandescent bulbs operating them at reduced voltage. I run 12 volt bulbs at 9½ volts and 1½ volt bulbs at 1.3 volts, I also think they look more realistic than LEDs too. I have only had two bulbs out of several hundred burnout in over 20 years.
Mel
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Thank you all for the links
The Bowser Trains lamps are not operating and I look for operating street lamps.
The self made lamps I will try to make them, looks to be a fun project.
The Walthers street lights looks fantastic and the seller We Honest I know because I bought some stuff there also.
But, I am fascinated about the typical LA street light I mentioned, I think that there is no other city where you can find that iconic LA street lamp that I mentioned.
Chicago had many of those lights that You showed…all around downtown and the Boulevards, like Lake Shore drive in the 20’s/50’s, some are still around to this day. Born Chgo. 1942…they were concrete and iron…some look like they could have been gas-lit at one time. They even had them on the many draw-bridges in the loop.
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Bakersfield also had those street lights in the downtown area until about 1995. They were removed because of old age, they were becoming a safety hazard, most hadn’t worked in years. City overhauled the downtown area and the street lights were replaced.
Mel
Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951
My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/
Bakersfield, California
I’m beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
Mel and others,
The Wehonest stuff looks great. Other than longer shipping times, since they are in China, did you have any other problems with dealing with these folks?
Thanks
I looked up my orders to Wehonest over the last three years, I’ve placed 9 orders to them without any problems other than one that took 4 weeks to arrive. Their products have been as good as any supplier I’ve bought from. Their prices are very good and normally two to three week delivery.
The only thing I wasn’t totally happy with was their trees. The quality is very good but all 40 trees were exactly the same and needed quite a bit of tweaking before they looked realistic on my layout. I tweaked the limbs, length and re-colored them so that they didn’t appear storybook looking.
I use their 1mm 1½ volt grain of rice bulbs in 100+ vehicles for headlights with maybe a 3% failure rate out of the package, 3 per hundred isn’t what I’d classify as bad. Most of my vehicles have three bulbs, two headlights and one driving fiber optics for taillights and running lights in buses and trucks. My emerge
Mel/everyone,
Are the bulbs or pig tails replaceable on these china lamps ?
Thanks
This is the street light I use.
I would say the bulb isn’t replicable, but at 60¢ per fixture it wouldn’t be worth the trouble to replace the bulb.
The bulbs are 12 volt and I use 9½ volts on them, I haven’t had a failure in 5 years with hundreds of hours of operation. I currently have 18 streetlights operating.
Thanks Mel for the detailed response. Very helpful. Chris
NYCT had many old fashioned lamps on their platforms, although none like that. In recent renovations they kept the old fashioned shapes but enlarged the heads to accommodate Metal Halide lamps with ballasts.
Point is, you can make them larger if you have to and still remain within the realm of Prototypical plausability.
A 5mm rounded top LED will emulate your needs well enough, depending on howmany rivets you want to count.
ROAR