I just took my new Turkey Point out of the box. This thing is huge! A very large foot print for sure.

Lots of nice paintwork on this one. The furniture on the porch must have been a real joy to paint. The piece is exceptionally well done, and it's nice to have a little innovation with the "opening tower" to reveal the staircase inside. It's too bad there wasn't a way to hide the hinges when the tower is closed. This one is numbered #87, no preceding zeros!

Nice piece definitely worth owning especially with the new innovative "opening tower". It's big and if they keep coming this size, I'm going to need another curio.

Buy it, you'll like it!

Bob

Kim was proud of the fact that they kept her dad from knowing about the door until the piece was done. Is a most interesting piece.

Dave

"... not your typical HL"

That is exactly why it will end up in my curio, even though it doesn't fit the Great Lakes theme of my collection. That limitation is lifted when a piece is different/unique.

Roger

Turkey Point arrived here today, and as Bob said, it is big! And heavy! The detail on the porch furniture is just incredible, and it's definitely going to be a conversation piece with the opening tower.

Bruce

I agree with you Bob! It's big and heavy! Got it over the weekend, with many others, I might add! It's definitely no turkey! I love that red tin roof! The hinged opening of the tower is unique. Nice to have one like this, but I hope it's not a trend! WELL DONE FIGURINE!

be sure to look at the door on the tower-- look closely at where the door knob is......
be sure to look at both sides.....

chris g

Updated 2002 images on the Catalog pages including a little Photoshop Magic of Turkey Point...

Gee Paul - even I didn't notice that animation when I placed the new picture there!

Nice job!

Am I the only one around here who has the courage to say out loud that this piece is just way too ridiculously large???

I'm happy for those of you who have the space for it...but to me it's yet another LE that's WAY TOO BIG...

I think it takes a lot of courage to say a bunch of Wacko's don't have courage to say how they feel!

I personally don't like big lights, I wish they all were pharos size, but this light is very well done and the showing of the inside of a tower far out ways the size of the footprint... this lighthouse was selling out at every store along the recent Bill Event swing through Ohio..

Well that's just about what I expected you would say, Mr. Brady...you're practically an employee of HL after all...I'm not.

Quite frankly, this one's a little to big and gimmicky for my tastes. I don't really care for the big hinges that are evident when the tower is open and closed. Would have preffered the tower half just be removable, set it next to it, like the roof of Hooper Straits. Will pass on this one, although I do give high marks for the progressive thinking.

Mike

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While working on the images for the animation of this week's featured lighthouse at HarbourLights.com , I asked my wife to help me decide which images to eliminate from the mix. I shot about 22 different looks and I try to keep it between 12 to 14 images for the animation.

If I use any more it gets to be a large file and it will take a very long time to load up on some people's computers... too long. I had it down to 20 when I asked for her help.

After going through them one at a time and then spreading them across the screen so we could see them all at the same time, she said, "That really is a NICE lighthouse!"…and she is not even an almost HL employee!!

Turkey Point Lighthouse


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“Scale and proportion”
That is why the house is so large. The lighthouse in real life is very small. Only 35ft tall. Lets compare it with one of the lighthouse figurine that is more of a suitable size, say Sandy Hook. The actual Sandy Hook is 104 ft tall. That is almost three times larger than Turkey Point. If the Turkey point figurine was made as the same scale as Sandy Hook the house would look okay but the lighthouse would be very small only 1 ½” tall. At that scale, it would have been impossible to have the lighthouse open up and show the stairs. And probably most collectors would compare its size with a glow.

There have been many Harbour Lights with the same scale as Turkey Point or larger, but was not very noticeable since a two story house wasn’t attached.
How about:
Cape Blanco
Castle hill
Portland breakwater
Cape Hatteras Beacon
Thomas Point
Just to mention a few.

Daniel

I kind of like the larger Harbour Lights. I think probably I shouldn;t because I live in a condo, but I do anyway. I had to squeeese the
three I just brought home into my last curio. I

I noticed the door, too. The doorknob is on the wrong side

OK.... I just received my Turkey Point after waiting patiently for a month or two and I am really dissapointed. Being a Chesapeake Bay buff, I was eager for months for this piece only to question myself why I wasted money on this piece.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE harbour Lights lighthouse, but Turkey Point just STINKS!! Of course this is my own opinion. Its not the size that irrates me, but the darn scale of it. I could use this thing as a house for my Lionel train set. What was someone at HLs thinking? Granted, if the scale was smaller, the entire piece would've been smaller with a shorter tower.
I truley hope that HL doesn't make this mistake again. I love the idea of thedetail on the inside of the tower (similiar to the inside of the Hooper Strait Reunion piece), but the whole scale of this piece makes me want to SCREAM

This light doesn't even look right when sitting next to the other fine HLs. Anyone have a Lionel scale train set and need a building?

The Wolf Trap, VA (another new Chesapeake Bay piece) looks awesome, so what gives with the Turkey Point, MD?

Christopher

I'm afraid I agree. I was thinking exactly the same thing...it would be great as part of an HO train set.

Put it next to your Concord Point. The towers are about the same size, just like in real life.

Taking this just a little further if you put an "O" /"o27" scale Lionel steamer next to either Turkey Point or Concord the scale is very close.

Many real life steamers of the 40,s and 50,s are near the same height as the real Concord or Turkey Point. For Example - the N&W J and A class of the early to mid 40,s , the NYC Hudson J1E, and most late model steamers of the UP.

"Good Job Harbour Lights"

Steam engines and lighthouses...steam engines and lighthouses...steam engines....
For some reason, apples and oranges comes to mind.

Yes they do. Some apples and oranges are near the same "SIZE" although,of course, not taste.

I like the Turkey Pt lighthouse, although I still don't know if those things in that porch basket are apples or oranges...

About the N&W 'J' engines... sadly, the last operable one, #611, the one that pulled the Chaatanooga Choo Choo excursion train my teenage sons, my wife, and I rode behind in the late eighties from Birmingham, is now welded to the track in Roanoke near where it was born in 1950. They were the ultimate in steam - produced some 6,000 hp at full throttle and capable of pulling a 15 car passenger train at 110 mph. Sorry, steam loco nostalgia predated my lighthouse mania. They both bring back memories of a kinder time.

About scales... my train models are 'G' scale - 1:22.5. Cape Hatteras would be some eight feet tall... Well, at least my trains can & do run outdoors... maybe I do need a G scale Hatteras? LE or GLOW? HLOM (Huge Lighthouse of Mine)??

John

Everything is not perfect. Rome wasn't built in a day as the saying goes and HLs doesn't do everything perfect the first time. I think it's a neat idea to be able to look into the tower and if the tower isn't to scale it isn't the first time a sculpture wasn't to scale. My only concern is are we going to fads(towers opening, removable roofs, glowing water/beacons, renovated/unrenovated building)? I hope not and as long as they do one of a kind this is fine with me. My opinion of course.

Rich

Stainz,

Try the Lionel CH Lighthouse. It is over scale for O/o27 and looks good with "G" . Check Ridge Road Station Holley, NY 585-638-6000. Last I checked they still had two of them at apprx 159.00

I fear that this thread has now crossed over into trains......