Monday, February 2, 2009

Lionel Trains and The American Flyer - Model Trains

By Edward Rizzo

Presently to follow with his greatest model trains, Josh came out with a new gauge, and this was a moderate three rail O gauge. He had speedily projected the need for a train that would be more adaptable to home sizes and could generate off the electrical energy. That's precisely what this gauge allowed and is nevertheless a very favourited model today.

Another train manufacturers were quickly becoming acknowledged as well. For illustration the in 1907, the American Flyer joined the industry. Owned by 2 friends, William Coleman and William Hafner. They had determined they wanted to experiment with keeping prices down in the lithography region. They tried several tin type stuffs but the quality was bad, so they were not best-selling.It was actually this organisation that set out producing clockwork trains first.

Finally the partnership came to an end and Hafner went on his individual constructing the American flyer electric train set. In the beginning, he went with the O gauge, but shortly went into the general gauge that Lionel had set.

Merely before the oncoming of the war, Hafner sold the American flyer in 1938. And the new owner was A C Gilbert. Once the war started, every model train making had to stop. Every last the attention had to be put on the war. Prior to this though Gilbert had shifted the gauge from HO to O. And Then in 1946, the S gauge was presented. The Lionel Organization had the leading border in the industry and Gilbert was unable to compete. He could not keep up with the mass production and the cost of Lionels. Gilbert stopped production in 1966 and just after this; Lionel took over the possession of the American Flyer.

The passion for model trains lives on today and will no doubt preserve to do so for many years to come. There will never be a toy in the industry that can take the place of the preferred trains in people's heart.

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