One is Historic Rail, I've bought stuff from them, shot glasses. But there is another company that mailed catalogs. Didn't get any catalog from them this year.
Not sure if they were in MN, WI or MI but they had a lot of nice stuff. Can't find the name with some web searches.
Had lamps, RR lanterns, a bellows train whistle with pull cord, and clocks, specifically a mantle clock for about $150 or so. SP lights, decorated rail spikes, statues of rail workers, like conductor, engineer, line worker, such. Wanted to get that clock I didn't buy other years.
Anybody know the company? No ad in recent trains mag. They didn't have model trains, just other things.
Thanks, Tom - bluepuma
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Schraders Railroad Catalog
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Hadn't thought they were the ones, but they are in MI and they have some of the items I remember seeing, the SP lamps.
The site is styled different than the catalogs I got a while.
The Station Regulator Clock is what I wanted. Chime, etc.
I think after so many years, I must buy it for myself. Time this grandfather got a real clock.
I *did* donate some $$$ to the Southwest Indian Foundation in Gallup, NM, to help some Navajo family get a wood/coal combo stove, last year I did a Food Basket. Thought they might have something in the old Santa Fe station there, still feeling Arizona as my home, and close to the Santa Fe line at the LA end and Chicago end, I feel connected.
They sell indian related stuf through their store to raise $$$ for the indian cause of employment, and services. - puma
Yes, it's Schraders. I've had a regulator clock on the wall for 8 years now. Works fine, keeps time, sounds good.
230 South Abbe rd. Fairview MI 48621
Customer service 1-989-848-2225. Website in the other reply is correct.
diningcar wrote:When I refer to AUTHENTIC I am talking about items which were used by the RR's, not the reproduction knockoffs made in some foreign country.
I wasn't quoting your post. Schraders sells "Kromer" brand caps, made in the USA.
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