Starting in 1919, freshman boys hiked the trail to the "M" during homecoming and lit the outline with railroad lanterns.

Afterward, the mayor, surrounded by an entourage of sanitation and rail officials, went outside and, in a symbolic gesture, waved a railroad lantern at a waiting locomotive.

The museum has a collection of railroad lanterns, model trains and other memorabilia.

She was not allowed to take a lamp upstairs, so Ray Kennedy gave her a railroad lantern by which she could read at night.

Those dark-blue eyes fastened on his face like hooded railroad lanterns.

A railroad lantern, resting on the floor in the center of the room, spilled yellow light on Sheriff Grant.

A clock, which once kept time in an old Buick, is encased in a railroad lantern mounted on wheels from a 1930's scooter.

The depot houses the large collection of railroad lanterns, railroad china, and the nation's largest railroad paperweight collection.

"You next, Grover," the dead man spoke, and Grover Whelk rolled the dice by the light of the railroad lantern.

That railroad lantern made all our faces look almost as bony as the dead man's hand.