A.C. Gilberts Famous AMERICAN FLYER TRAINS (NEW BOOK)

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Famous AmericanFlyer Trainsby Paul G. Nelson

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330 b&w and Color Photos

Of all the toys a boy could want, a Gilbert American Flyer train hasalways been high on the list. Gilberts American Flyer two-rail trains lookedreal, featured smoke and choo-choo, horns and whistles, operating lights,realistic-looking couplers and bright paint schemes that matched prototyperailroads. Climb aboard with us as we discover these fascinating trains madebetween 1946 and 1966, which have provided a long-lasting legacy from The A.C.Gilbert Company. Includes handy alphabetical and numerical indexes. Aninvaluable book worth every penny!

This book tells you what S gauge products Gilbert made and when. It covers suchitems as the Royal Blue, 4-8-4 Northerns, 0-8-0 Switchers, the Pennsylvania0-6-0s and 4-6-2s and the famous 4-6-4 New York Central Hudsons. In the dieselchapter, youll read about the colorful PA-style ALCo Santa Fe Warbonnet units,the rare Silver Flash and the beautiful yellow and blue Comet locomotives, thegreen and yellow A-A Rocket units, the classy C&O Geeps, the New Haven ALCoA units in white, red and black, and the later-era General Motors diesels from1961.Freight cars from the State of Maine 40-foot box car tothe Missouri Pacific yellow-blue-gray box cars to the Northern Pacific PigPalace cars are covered in detail, as are the Chicago & NorthWesternrefrigerator cars, the American Refrigerator cars, tank cars, Bakers Chocolatecars, Gilbert and Celanese chemical cars, hoppers and covered hoppers, flats,depressed center flats, gondolas, cranes, and operating cars such as the milkcar, tie car, rocket launcher and lumber cars.

Passenger cars included are the New Haven-style red and green cars, the long,six-wheel truck Pullman-style passenger cars in red and green, the streamlinedpassenger combines, coaches, domes and observation cars, and the 1959-1960Frontiersman passenger cars.Exciting accessories such as the #787 Log Loader, #752 Seaboard Coaler,#23796 Sawmill, #583 Electromatic Crane, #766 Animated Station, #578 StationFigure Set and #789 Baggage Smasher Station are also described and detailed.This 8.5×11, 200-page hardbound book includes 330 b/w and color photos andperiod advertisements.

Chapters by Content:
Foreword
History
1 Steam Locomotives
2 Diesel Locomotives
3 Rolling Stock
4 A Selection of Distinctive Sets
5 Accessories
6 Marketing and Publicity: Newspapers and Magazines
7 Marketing and Publicity: Television, Displays, Pricing and Packaging
Alphabetical IndexNumerical index

Hardbound, 8.5×11, 200 pages, 230 b&w photos and100 color photos, period advertisements, Alphabetical Index, Numerical Index.

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