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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Santa Fe Depot Okay, after seeing the photo on stmtrolleyguy's answer -- how do you tell a railroad lantern from a plain old farm lantern if there's no RR name on it? I'm just a former farm girl who milked many a cow by lanternlight and those lanterns look the same as what we used. [/quote]In the photo you saw I believe the lantern on the right is a farm type lantern and the one on the left is a Dietz Vesta, which is a railroad lantern. The tubes on the sides are what make it a "hot blast" lantern, and most railroad lanterns did not have that feature. Here's a link that can explain it much better than I can. http://www.railroadiana.org/pgLanterns_Barn.shtml
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