Pre-war AF O-Gauge

There is one on ebay. Listed as #406 lumber car.

You have 3216 Log car.    It is from 1938.   It has what are known as Type XII trucks and the Type X coupler. The type X coupler was used on 9 1/2 cars in 1938 and primarily on 6 1/2 cars in 1939. The coupler is know as sheet metal knuckle coupler or a "curley que" coupler.  The type X Flyer coupler will couple with a Lionel knuckle coupler

The wood load was usually a scribed block of solid wood.  Your wood tie downs are home made, but there are reproductions of the original tie downs available.  You are also missing a brake wheel.

Nice find.  Are you a pre war Flyer collector?

Don, 

a 406 is Gilbert production and has a link and pin type coupler.  It is from 1939.

Thanks both for the info. I do collect some Flyer but this is my only O-Gauge piece.

You may find that its easy to collect and hard to resist. 

Ok. Thanks. I see the coupler difference now.  

AF Pre-war is interesting as there is both regular size O scale offerings and 3/16" O scale (comparable in size to S scale).

The 3/16" scale offerings are among my favorite pre-war offerings. For example,this Pennsy K-5 is pretty accurately done:
 


IF your interested, I have a few AF pre-war items posted on the OGR for sale board from a couple of weeks ago.

Jim

The tie downs look original.

You might be right Chuck.  In the photo they look as if the wire is a smaller gauge than that used for originals.  

Without seeing them in person its difficult to say for sure.  If they aren't original the person who made them did a nice job.

Or after a second look at your original car, maybe they are the tie downs from the S gauge C&O flatcar with pipes.

I just went and looked at some photos of the S gauge C&O pipecar, and I think you are right.