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Way back - probably around 1980 or so, a TCA member published an article in the Quarterly about small American Flyer Stations.  I had just become interested in the stations and the information provided was a welcome addition to my then meager store of knowledge concerning the stations.

  The author provided pictures of the various stations along with their names.  One of the pictures was of the small Glen Ellyn station which, as we know today, was Hafner and not American Flyer.  At the fall York meet for the same year I found a complete "American Flyer" station set with the Glen Ellyn station.  Other than a rubber stamped 1100 on the box side there was no other identification. 

  It was only after the passage of several years and my accumulation of additional knowledge about American Flyer stations that I came to realize the author had made a mistake with regards to the Glen Ellyn station.  This wasn't a problem. Rather it was fun to discover I had something different and something which, for me, has proven to be unique in that I've never seen another one of these sets (now watch - half of the posters to this thread will come back with pictures of mountains of these sets in their respective collections ).

#1100 Hafner Station Set

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Box contents - note the semaphore on the straight post is part of the station and is held in place by a hole in the station roof

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Hafner station with semaphore attached

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