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American Flyer S-gauge model from the early 1950s of the B&O 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive, as streamlined in 1937 by Otto Kuhler for the Royal Blue train. American Flyer is a brand of toy train and model railroad, originally manufactured in the United States.
Two American Flyer coaches behind a New Haven EP-5 electric locomotive. The American Flyer was an early streamlined American passenger railcar built by Pullman-Standard in the 1930s. They were the first streamlined equipment operated in New England and acquired their name from the model trains that their design inspired. [1] [2]
Between 1946 and 1966, the company manufactured toy trains called the American Flyer. [10] In the 1950s, sets for other budding scientists included those to investigate radioactivity using the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, a kit featuring a Geiger counter and radioactive samples. [11] [12]
Modeling in S scale increased in the 1930s and 1940s when CD Models marketed 3 ⁄ 16-inch model trains. American Flyer was a manufacturer of standard gauge and O gauge "tinplate" trains, based in Chicago, Illinois. It never produced S scale trains as an independent company. Chicago Flyer was purchased by A.C. Gilbert Co. in the late 1930s.
The boom of the 1920s made large toy trains affordable and Standard Gauge had its heyday in the mid-1920s only to virtually disappear during the Great Depression. Ives filed for bankruptcy in 1928 and its offerings were off the market by 1932. American Flyer discontinued its Standard Gauge trains in 1932. Dorfan went out of business in 1934.
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