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American Flyer®
Photo courtesy of Dave Jones
All Aboard. Through Trains to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and all points west...'Board!"
Listen to the American Flyer® Talking Station(466kb)--courtesy of Chuck Smith.
S-Trains Digest Mailing List On the Internet--An electronic
mailing list for people who are interested in American Flyer® and
S Scale trains. You send your questions and comments to S-Trains at:
S-Trains-owner@onelist.com,
and it will send them out in a composite E-mail message to all the
list members. This tends to work well for folks who don't want to get
inundated with lots of mail. It only sends out a composite message
once a day.
If you want to be on the list just send a note to S-trains at S-Trains-owner@onelist.com or to Paul Yorke at: Yorke@gate.net
For S-Trains info visit S-Trains link to
http://www.trainweb.org/s-trains/list/smail.htm
or write to Paul Yorke at: yorke@gate.net
Paul
Yorke's list of American Flyer Books
Vintage
American Flyer® Trains & Accessories
Port Lines
Hobby Supplies - Doug Peck--Specialists in American
Flyer® trains, replacement parts.
NEW 1997-1998 Parts Catalog is now available......56 pages long, and containing almost 2000 different items for AF repair and restoration! PORT LINES American Flyer® Parts Catalog is $2, or $5 brings you that Parts Catalog, plus our Used Am Flyer® Sales List, plus our New S-Gauge/S-Scale Equipment Catalog.
To send e-mail to Port Lines Hobbies Click Here.
The R.F.
Giardina, Co.; POB 562, Oyster Bay, NY 11771, Phone/Fax
516-922-1364 E-mail to: The
R.F. Giardina, Co.
American Flyer® "S", "O", "HO" parts and reproductions. RFG manufactures FLYERVILLE Building reproductions, Control Buttons and more than 1500 parts. Plus Tools, Electronics, Hardware & Supplies for all trains. Fully illustrated catalog $2.00. VISA/MASTERCARD accepted. Or you can use the Catalog Order Form at The RFGiardina, Co.
Paul Yorke's list of A.F.® sites on the World Wide Web:
Toy Train
Heaven
H & R
Trains
The Train
Works
High Iron Exchange
Toy
Train Exchange
the-forum
On-Line Antiques Mall
Caboose
Hobbies of Denver
The Station
House--free ads.
Bookbinder's
Trains Unlimited
Train City of Erie,
PA
Paul Yorke can be reached at yorke@gate.net
American Flyer
Trains.com!--an AF® sales list by Mark
Preman.
Mark has a large collection of original Gilbert AF® trains for
sale. He can even get you a starter set for a great price.
For our friends who still do it the old fashioned way, a business
size SASE gets the paper version of the current list.
Joe's
Train Repair
Specializing in S Gauge American Flyer For a list send a large,
S.A.S.E with $.60 postage.
Bill
Parr's Hobby Supplies--reproduction and original parts; complete
list of available items for $1.50.
Train Works
A.F.® Parts Catalog
American Flyer® Collectors Club; P.O. Box 13269, Pittsburgh,
PA 15243. Membership in this organization will get you four issues of
the club magazine, The Collector, for the year in which you
join, plus a membership directory. You may advertise free of charge
in "The Whistling Billboard," a department of The
Collector.
American Hi-Rail--Makers of American Flyer® conversion kits.
Contact Tom Hodgson c/o Instrument Design, Inc., 37695 Jeanette
Court, Spring Grove, IL 60081; Tel. 708-587-1116/219-272-7035
Hobby Surplus Sales carries over 2,100 AF parts. They also have
exploded drawings for the entire AF® production available for
$19.95. Part #AF1. Their AF parts listing is free. Their 24 hour toll
free phone number is 1-800-233-0872.
The Train Collector Home Page - by John & Robin
Vanacore.
Lionel Trains,
Inc.®--Now the manufacturers of the American Flyer®
Lines. To send e-mail to Lionel write to Click
here.
Tinplate Trains FAQ. - Frequently Asked Questions:
AF® Conversion Kits From Ace
The ACE system has been developed to permit rolling stock conversions
from tinplate to either Scale or Hi-rail operation. The system
consists of carefully designed kits which permit the easy conversion
of particular freight car bodies or groups.
Available from:
Ballston
Locomotive Works
SASE for catalog/flyer sheets.
They make reasonably priced S gauge locos (camelback, Blue Comet, Hiawatha) using various AF® chassises. You can get them totally build and finished, finished or unfinished body kits.
The Camelback is also available as a conversion kit from:
There are Jersey Central, Reading, DL&W, and Lehigh Valley versions offered.
K-LIGHT
Constant Lighting Modules--K-LIGHT are a electronic module
which provides constant brilliance of light for your passenger or
freight cars and caboose. No matter what speed you are running your
train, your lights will not dim or increase in brilliance like a
standard lighted car.
Mike
McConnell's Basement Central RR
Photo by Scott Sosna, Minneapolis, MN
Barry Erick's
American Flyer® Page
Wayne Broadhead's American
Flyer® Page
David McManamon's
American Flyer® Page
Classic
Toy Trains Magazine from Kalmbach.
Eastwood Automobiles--
die-cast collectables of your favorite models in scales ranging from
1:64 to 1:18.
GarGraves Trackage
Corporation
FLYER AT 50
From November, 1996 through January, 1997 the Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, CT sponsored a "Flyer At 50" exhibit of original American Flyer® Trains by the A.C. Gilbert Co. Located just one mile from the site of where American Flyer® S gauge trains had been manufactured since 1946, the exhibit featured a 3/16" model replica of the original factory much of which still exists today.
This model of the Erector Square Factory was created by a New Haven architectural firm for the Eli Whitney Museum.
The Flyer At 50 exhibit ran from November, 1996 through the end of January, 1997 and included the sale of customized AF reefers, gondolas and cabooses to raise funds for the project.
This AF® reefer was custom made and named after my daughter and the factory of the same name on my layout.
The exhibit used Gargraves track and included a variety of American Flyer® motive power, rolling stock and operating accessories.
NASG Perles Publications Award, 1997.
Changes last made on: January 1, 1999
