The same bulb is available elsewhere for $29 or so. They last a long, long, long time. The bulb is commonly used in street lighting -- there is nothing unique about it for this application.
The filters can be replaced with Roscoe filters, you cut them and put them between the sheets of glass and tape them up. I just rehabbed a Thomas with broken filters and a bad bulb and a rat's nest in it. I used the color of the gel that is widely recommended for this -- R19 "Fire." It works fine. Add a little tissue paper in the glass sandwich before you tape them up. Or you can by new filters from B&H.
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