Mixing AF and Lionel.

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I have a Lionel postwar layout and was wondering how well American Flyer accessories (whistling billboard & semaphore man) mixed with Lionel power. I can’t think of a good reason that the AF stuff wouldn’t work on my Lionel transformer (both low voltage AC) but I wanted to make sure BEFORE I hooked the wires up!

Thanks,

K

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They will work fine.Many layouts combine items from both companies.

Jim

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I use the old AF Oil Drum Loader as well as the Water Tank on my “O” layout. Had to increase the height of the loader a bit. Joe

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AF is also a natural mix with Marx! The tin AF Mystic station is a great complement to the Marx Girard station. I have the oil drum loader, water tank and magnetic crane, too.

While AF is probably too small up against O scale, it’s ideal for O27 equipment, most of which scales closer to S anyway.

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A lot of the Flyer accessories are a bit big for S, so they look fine with O. I’ve got a repro Flyer log loader on my layout. It’s great.

And for that matter, I found a couple of Flyer car bodies at a swap meet. I paid $1 each for them, took 'em home and slapped O gauge trucks on them. Bingo, cheap O27 cars.

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It’s like making a pot of chili or a stew. A little Am. Flyer, a little Lionel, sprinkle in some Marx, and you have a great layout.

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I’ve even seen dual-gauge layouts with a loop or two of AF, elevated, with the larger Lionel trains running on lower levels. Those are cool too, if you have the space to do it.

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dual gauge yuo know what i fouund at a show a while back, a s/o crossover how bazar to make ti even werder it was on a curve a o-27 to the left and a af to the right werd huh. dident buy it though too rusty and i dont have af i also thought would it be posible to put af and linoel on the same main linelike this

________________________________________________linoel outside
________________________________________________af rail
________________________________________________linoel inside

________________________________________________linoel outside ( af second rail )

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Yeah, that dual guage setup should work. I think Scott Smith did the same thing with O gauge and standard gauge with a shared center rail.