O guy with 1940s AF question

I'm not aware of any pre war American Flyer O Gauge that ran on DC. Can you supply the number from the loco?

Gandy

I will ask him. I'm actually glad it sould be AC, as DC seemed wierd to me. I think I am going to meet up with him, open the loco and post pics.

An elderly* friend of mine has an extensive Lionel/AF O scale collection.  He has a pre-war O scale AF Pacific that is BEAUTIFULLY proportioned.  Such a pity that it is plagued with the pitting/rotting pot metal wheel syndrome.

Andre

Regarding prewar Flyer and DC, the high end locos sent a charge of DC to change

direction in place of an E unit.

Herb W

Replacement wheels are available for this common problem.  This has even happen recently with MTH wheels on their standard gauge trains

Hi Major!

Can you supply a link so that I may inform him of this?  It would be much appreciated.

BTW, by "elderly", I mean someone that's older than me.

Andre

I picked up my replacement wheels from Fred's train parts.  However Fred Jester recently past away.  I have heard that friends or relatives will be set up at a pre TCA train show at York PA this April.  I will be attending both this pre train show and the TCA show so I may have more information on availability of these wheels.  Let me know what he needs and I  will be happy to purchase and send them to him if I can find them.  You can e-mail me directly at keyhole_corona@yahoo.com with your needs.  Note that is keyhole_corona the underscore does not show properly when the full e-mail address is shown.

IMHO, before you pass on any information to the owner of these trains, you should find out exactly what he has.

In my experience folks commonly over estimate the age of their trains. I cannot count the number of times people swore that their trans were acquired years before the item was made.

I am not too familar with American Flyer, but I believe that they did make some DC powered "S" gauge trains in the 1950's. Maybe your friend has these.

I see from their WEB site that Port Line hobbies also carries the pre war wheels for Flyer locomotives.