My inherited collection.

Welcome aboard Sal!

 

I recently had a similar situation, my cousin didn't want to bother his wife with getting rid of his collection so he had me drive up to Chicago and pick up his collection. It's one very nice, mostly PW, collection along with many new in box modern era items. I'll keep some,  but I must sell some too as I don't have the room to display or run it all! It was almost 150 boxes! The 3 great finds were the Mayflower set with cars NIB. (LTI) The Hiawatha set, NIB and almost all the great PW steamers in used, but awesome condition.

 

Best of luck to you and again, welcome!

Welcome!

 

And WOW that is a very cool collection of the classics. Keep the photos coming!

Wow!   Nice collection.   I imagine you grandfather cherished those...but honestly the silver gg1 stands out ...not in a good way..next to the rest of it...hope we get to see more pics!

 

Well, here you go! I removed the modern era silver GG-1 and put the 773 and NIB 2426W tender in its place on the outside track. Of note those passenger cars are American Flyer, all polished AL, and I can't find a lick of info about them (they have part numbers in the form of 25xx). I also put the fairly ratty 2343 set on the middle track and unboxed a NIB 2383 set and put onto the middle staging track.

 

 

Sal

My bet is they are not American Flyer, but AMT, American Model Toys.

 

Steve

 Of note those passenger cars are American Flyer, all polished AL, and I can't find a lick of info about them (they have part numbers in the form of 25xx).

 

 

 

could you post some close up pics?

That's great you still have those items from your childhood memories.

Welcome to the forum.

-Greg

 

Ah, yes, I misremembered! I pulled out the boxes - American Model Toys. Plenty of info to be had on Google now. Thanks for jogging my memory.