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1122 Lanterns: Color Targets?

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1122 Lanterns: Color Targets?
Posted by marmelmm on Saturday, March 7, 2009 10:11 AM

Hi, all!  

 If memory serves, the revolving lanterns on later Lionel 1122 switches had colored targets on them.  Can anyone point me to a source for these?  All the 1122 lanterns I see online these days are the plain black repros.

 Thanks!

VTY,

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Posted by lionelsoni on Saturday, March 7, 2009 11:10 AM

Could you be thinking of the 1122-123 lanterns used on the early 1122s?  They were made for only one year.  Unlike the 1122-177 used on the later, 1122(E) turnouts, the 1122-123 had an external colored ring around the lens.

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Posted by marmelmm on Saturday, March 7, 2009 2:43 PM

lionelsoni

Could you be thinking of the 1122-123 lanterns used on the early 1122s?  They were made for only one year.  Unlike the 1122-177 used on the later, 1122(E) turnouts, the 1122-123 had an external colored ring around the lens.

 

 That sounds right to me!  I thought it was a later mod, but I'm certainly willing to be proven wrong.  :)

So, any suggestions for sources?  

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Posted by Frank53 on Saturday, March 7, 2009 3:19 PM

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Posted by 3railguy on Saturday, March 7, 2009 3:22 PM

Frank53

LMAO!!!!!

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Posted by marmelmm on Saturday, March 7, 2009 4:09 PM

Frank53


 

 Erm?  Confused

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Posted by Frank53 on Saturday, March 7, 2009 4:31 PM
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Posted by lionelsoni on Saturday, March 7, 2009 4:42 PM

Apparently somebody made a funny "avatar".

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Posted by Frank53 on Saturday, March 7, 2009 4:57 PM

lionelsoni

Apparently somebody made a funny "avatar".

Looks like my avatar has a long lost cousin stuck in the 70's . .  .

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Posted by 3railguy on Saturday, March 7, 2009 8:24 PM

Frank, you just posted a cross link and crashed my machine.

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Posted by marmelmm on Saturday, March 7, 2009 9:41 PM

Frank53

Looks like my avatar has a long lost cousin stuck in the 70's . .  .

 

Heh.  Actually, it's a running gag from an art site I'm on.  See, my trademark is aviator specs and a handlebar moustache, so I tend to add the same to various other avatars ranging from Richard M. Nixon to an Egg Mc Muffin (don't ask).   

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Posted by 3railguy on Saturday, March 7, 2009 10:21 PM

Well I'm glad you have a sense of humor because we are so used to Frank's avitar, which has been around a few years. Yours litterally put me in stitches. Like a graphiti artist nailed poor ole Frank.

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