Rail road lantern

[acevillav]

I picked this up for 3 bucks and wondered if anybody had any info on it. I'm thinking it's a railroad lantern circa 40's-50's ?

Thanks Ace Villa-v

[creeper71]

pic needs to be bigger ..please

[diggummup]

I found this-
The Dietz Night Watch lantern was introduced in 1950, and was produced until about 1956. It replaced the Dietz "8-Day" lantern designed in the 1930's, which used the same "Little Wizard" sized Fresnel globe. The Dietz Night Watch was produced with a modified tank common with the 1936 Streamline Monarch and Little Wizard lanterns. Both styles were used as highway barricade lanterns on roadway construction sites. After Dietz bought the Embury Co. in 1953, production of the Embury #40 Traffic Gard continued under the Dietz name, and the less popular Night Watch was discontinued shortly thereafter.
here-http://www.lanternnet.com/faqs.htm#nightwatch

I also seen it as being introduced in 1945 so...??--

In 1945 Dietz introduced the Night Watch. This lantern (some had the horizontal around the verticals, others passed through the verticals) has the operational characteristics of the 8-Day but was modern and streamlined. It continued to use the same globes as the 8-Day (Fresnel now marked Night Watch). And usually yellow frame and dome.

here-http://home.earthlink.net/~trafficga...rDeadFlame.htm

[acevillav]

Thanks Diggumup You are a wealth of knowledge