Does Anyone Make N Scale Street Lights (Non-Working) Suitable fpr 1960s?

[Kisatchie]

I managed to find some space on my planned layout for a business district (Design Preservation buildings), and I'll need street lights for it, suitable for the late 1960s. Non-working lights are fine. I'll need 6 or so. Can anyone help?


Hmm... Kiz is too inept
to wire up working street
lights...

[MichaelWinicki]

That's something I've struggled with also...

It's unfortunate that manufacturers think that everyone wants working lights... And that's not always the case.

JTT has a few decent looking streetlights & such... http://www.jttmicroscale.com/viewcategory.asp?DirID=96

Are they appropriate for the 1960's?  Well that's another question.

Most of the non-working lights we find for N-scale are so darned "cartoonish" in size... they throw off the scale of everything else in the scene.

[sirenwerks]

My favorite are definitely of 20s-30s origin but would fit fine in a 1960s small or mid-size town scene:


http://www.ngineering.com/n_lighting_kits.htm


 





You can make a non-lit version certainly, but with results like that, why?

[nkalanaga]

Late 1960s street lights in Pasco, WA were basically a pole, bracket arm, and mercury vapor bulb.  Nonworking models would be very easy to make.  Small wood dowel or brass rod, smaller brass rod for the horizontal arm, an even smaller rod for a diagonal brace under the arm, and a cylindrical bulb housing 1/16 to 3/32 inches in diameter and about the same length, glued to the underside of the end of the horizontal arm.  The bulb housing could be clear, translucent, or yellowish if it had been there a while.  Much of Pasco's wiring was underground, so all that would be needed is a conduit up the side of the pole, made from very small gray or silver wire.

You could probably mass-produce these while watching TV some night, especially with wooden poles, just poke the arms through the poles.  With brass, I'd want to drill holes for the horizontal arm at least, and maybe for the diagonal, just for strength.  They could be butt-soldered, but would probably not survive much handling.  With holes, glue would be fine.

[casmmr]

Detail Associates used to make street lights.  The also made police and fire call boxes, fire plugs, newspaper boxes, and postal boxes.  Neat little details if you can find them.

[skytop35]

I used some by GREEN MAX on my Kingsbury Branch. I did a quick check on ebay and found these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Greenmax-No-2141-Street-Light-Set-1-150-N-scale-/201488356762

[GimpLizard]

Woodland Scenics announce new street lamps, in HO & N, at the Indy show. From what I could see (in the background) in the video at the MR website they look like they'll be perfect for the 60's. I spied one that was a metal arm on wood utility poles.

Unfortunately, their web site seems to be down at the moment. So I can't find out more about right now.

[Kisatchie]

Just on a lark, I decided to google Kato street lights and found this:

https://www.amazon.com/Kato-23-215-Telephone-Street-Lights/dp/B0003JQ4AI

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Kato-23-215-Telephone-Poles-and-Street-Lights-N-scale-/121289384314

I don't need the (Japanese style) telephone poles, but the street lights look good.

I have a couple of questions. First, has anyone actually bought any of these? Second, I've never ordered from Japan before, so is the shipping (expedited) expensive?

Thanks for all replies.


Hmm... NEVER order
Japanese termites...

[Philip H]

I used the Kato ones years ago I an NTrak module when they first came out. Painted the plea aluminum and the light housings white. Looked pretty good -'even inside 3 feet. As for shipping - yeah exposures from Japan will be expensive. There is an eBay seller called Plaza Japan who is us based (I think) and so his shipping is more reasonable. Might check and see if he has any.

[Kisatchie]

...As for shipping - yeah exposures from Japan will be expensive. There is an eBay seller called Plaza Japan who is us based (I think) and so his shipping is more reasonable.

Thanks. I found an eBay seller in the US, and I bought a set from him.


Hmm... but do you think
Kiz would buy me a set
too? Noooooooooo...

[peteski]

There is an eBay seller called Plaza Japan who is us based (I think) and so his shipping is more reasonable. Might check and see if he has any.

Nope, they are based in Japan and the shipping costs (clearly shown in all their listings) are still reasonable. And they combine shipping charges on multiple items.  I've ordered from them many times and had no problems or complaints.

I buy hobby-related items from all over the world. Sometimes the shipping costs is a bit high, but if it is a unique item I really want and can't get locally then it is worth it.

[nkalanaga]

Dee:  Don't buy Formosan termites either.  Those things eat concrete, and probably taste terrible.