Kurt Maechner Wrote:
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> I'm totally guessing here, but Otto Perry would
> only have been 16 when the Alpine Tunnel closed in
> 1910. I can't imagine he would have gotten the
> lantern or that it would have lasted so long for
> him to find it later as an adult. I suppose
> someone else could have gotten it and he just got
> it some other way. Just speculating.
ISTR reading that it was still hanging at the apex of the tunnel in the late 1930's, when you could still walk the length of the tunnel, but was gone a decade later. Never heard even a ghost of a rumor of Otto Perry having it though.
Hank