@Fatman posted:

Oh Wow thank you for the excellent news @Nation Wide Lines I looked at Edmonds-Metzel and while the body was good , the mech didnt look the same on the examples I could google up ... and the 10 spoke wheels were nowhere to be seen ... only on other AF versions .

So possibly the last of the Metzels cast bodies fitted with 1916-17 type wheels makes sense? 

Kinda Stoked at that and as always wonder how the heck it got here ... Loco was from a non-train seller and was part of a deceased estate they have had for years .. in fact it was advertised as "Antique 1930's Iron toy clockwork steam engine working OK " I made a cheeky offer and a price was sorted

Thank you for taking a chunk out of out my huge weak spot of early USA locos !

Fatman,

I actually purchased some early Flyer cars c. 1915/1916 out of Australia several years ago and wondered how they got there as well!

Here are photos of what I purchased from down-under

A c. 1915 baggage car

and a c. 1916 coach

I was most surprised by the fact that the two cars were mixed between an early wood wall pattern litho baggage and a later steel wall pattern coach.

NWL