Sometimes the low hanging fruit tastes the best!
The Oriental is a favorite of mine.
Welcome aboard!!!
Can you show us one?
Rich
Welcome to the forum, PrewarAmericanFlyer!
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Welcome to the forum PrewarAmericanFlyer. Its good to have another AF fan join us. I hope you will feel free to post comments and photos.
richotrain,
I posted photos of my Oriental set back at entry #15
Here is the whole set.
These are the 4 wheel cars. They are actually all factory errors with one side reading Lexington and the other reading Paul Revere. These took a while to find but are not as uncommon as you might think.
I don’t have many 4 wheel cars in my collection but I thought these would be a very unique “name train”
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Northwoods Flyer
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Yeah, I saw yours. I was just wondering if our new member was willing to show us his.
Rich
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The Oriental of 1928 and 1929 was preceded in 1927 by The Oriental Limited.
The lithography on the engine and cars was pretty much the same except for the outline around windows and doors which was red in 1927. The engine was numbered as #3012 on one side and had a brass tag with American Flyer Lines on the other. Brass tags with black lettering changed to black backgrounds with brass letters in 1928.
Cars retained the same names of Lexington and Paul Revere
And the full train.
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Northwoods Flyer
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I have already posted photos of the orange Hiawatha cars at entry 44, and the two sets of blue streamline cars at entries 65 and 68.
Lets take a look at the green streamline cars. They appeared in the catalog in 1936, '37 and '38. In 1936 and 1937 they were pulled by the Hudson locomotive and Type XII tender. The tender had a whistle in 1936 and no whistle in 1937. In 1938 the cars were pulled by the 4622-4 locomotive and Type XV tender.
Here is set No. 1770-RW
Its supposed to have 3 1621G coaches and a 1622G observation
Obviously my set is missing one coach.
Here is the set running on the old Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines
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Northwoods Flyer
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Love those green cars!
Rich
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Northwoods that is a beautiful set love it
Chuck
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I have never seen prewar Flyer looking as good as some of these posts!
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Northwoods, thanks for sharing.
How many versions of “The Oriental” were made in orange?
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Thank you. It’s nice to hear. .
I am glad that at least 1 forum member could welcome a new member aboard.
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Prewar American Flyer,
To my knowledge there are only two versions that are variations of the lithography; either red or blue-green outlines on doors and windows. If you count the variation of 2 wheel or 4 wheel trucks I would say that there are at least 3 versions. If there are more I would like to hear about them.
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Northwoods Flyer
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Welcome Aboard, PrewarAmericanFlyer!
Do you do WG as well as NG?
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Next up lets take a look at the red streamlined cars.
I had to dig pretty deep into the photo archive to find these.
These cars appeared in the 1939 catalog (Set No. 317) and 1940 (Set No. 4013) In both years the cars were pulled by the #436 locomotive and tender. Type XV.
The actual color of cars in these sets is questionable. The illustrations in both catalogs are black on yellow and white backgrounds. The color of the cars is not mentioned. According to Shuweiler these sets have been found with either blue or red cars.
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Northwoods Flyer
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Nice I like the red as well thanks Northwoods.
Chuck
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And thank goodness you did. A simply beautiful train.
Rich
I counted at least 3.
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Mostly NG but have 1 WG set in storage.
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