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<p>[QUOTE="sabre123, post: 1337734, member: 8258"]They look like heavily tarnised brass on the exteriors (don't try and clean them). Check them with a magnet to be sure. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you can determine if they are, in fact, from L&N Railroad, people will be very interested, as evelyb, mentions. Yes, depot and could even had been at company headquarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>The time period is probably in later half of the 1800s. But gas lights were still widely used through the mid 1920s. Once electricity was mainstream (and safe), they probably converted them to get more mileage. They may have still been hanging during WWII since they probably would have been scrapped if they were lying around someplace.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sabre123, post: 1337734, member: 8258"]They look like heavily tarnised brass on the exteriors (don't try and clean them). Check them with a magnet to be sure. If you can determine if they are, in fact, from L&N Railroad, people will be very interested, as evelyb, mentions. Yes, depot and could even had been at company headquarters. The time period is probably in later half of the 1800s. But gas lights were still widely used through the mid 1920s. Once electricity was mainstream (and safe), they probably converted them to get more mileage. They may have still been hanging during WWII since they probably would have been scrapped if they were lying around someplace.[/QUOTE]
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