Dressel #586 Coach Lamp
From a Single Photo of the interior of the Denver & Rio Grande Pullman Car #470 and from this single catalog page, I was able to replicate 2 matching chandeliers about as accurately as I could without having an original in hand.
Thankfully these lamps share some common parts with others, but some parts of this lamp had to be artistically modeled from scratch using the limited source material. This included the legs, the center tube shade master ring, and shade holder arms, as well as the shade arms that branch off of the legs.
The crossarms (which is the unified oil tank burner assembly,) the shade holders themselves, and the draft tube pans as common with other lamps, and were able to be simply copied or sourced. Pulling all of this together, polishing all of the brass, and sourcing original railroad slant shades was quite a bit of effort, but the lamps were completed and are the center piece of the restored Narrow Gauge Pullman Sleeper Car at the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad.
This is the hardest restoration/replication I have completed to date, and I am perfectly happy with the level of accuracy we achieved. The legs are a dead match artistic, even with a scrutinous eye.
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