AMERICAN FLYER Catalogs
Some favorite memories of my youth, were the days before Christmas when my father would set up our train sets beneath the Christmas tree. My brother and I had American Flyer train sets, while most of our friends had Lionel. I could never understand why they would like the Lionel sets since Lionel had 3 rails for tracks, while everyone knew real trains only ran on two! I never understood Lionel's immense popularity through the years. The American Flyer locomotives made real train "choo-choo" sounds and real smoke came from the smoke stack. Recently I decided to restore my 55 year old old train set back to running condition. As I did so I found some old catalogs packed with the trains, which I have presented here. I hope it brings back some memories for those who recall the days when a train set under the Christmas Tree was a part of the holiday.
Top row:1950 Cat cover / 1954 Cat. cover / 1956 Cat. cover / 1954 Cat. pg.4./ 1954 inside cover. Second row: 1954 Cat. pg.3 / pg.5 / pg.22 ./ pg.24 / pg.30 Third row: 1954 Cat.pg.38 / 1956 cat. pg.36./ 1950 cat. pg.50 / pg.5 /1954 cat. rear cover. American Flyer trains were manufactured by the A. C. Gilbert Company, New Haven, Connecticut.