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TIM'S VINTAGE AMERICAN FLYER LAYOUT |
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SOME PICTURES I'VE TAKEN |
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All my toy trains are classic A.C. Gilbert American Flyer, modified by me as necessary to have them run well and look as they did when they left the factory. The track and switches have been highly modified to provide a more "realistic" setting for the vintage toy trains, while still keeping the "feel" of toy track, etc. While I am fully vetted in DCC, I choose to run them as they were originally designed to be run, on an analog AC system. |
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| Picking up a conductor | Starting up a grade to elevated loop |
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| Near the top | Future site of Ashbaugh log loading area |
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| Miller's Servicing Shed. I made the shed with stick scale lumber. | Browntown (50's Plasticville) |
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| Getting a cat out of a tree | Rural passenger stop. The Royal Blue is highly modified and repainted. For those of you who know ACG American Flyer trains; if you want a smoking RB, you have to cobble one up. |
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| Erector Set Bridge | Norman Bates Pass |
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| Stop at Mystic Station in Browntown | ALLLLLLL ABOARD - AMERRRRRICAN FLYER! |
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| Cut-down Flyer switches to connect two mainlines | An analog yard |
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| A Toy Animated Station - 1950's vibrating mat technology; same as those football games we had back in the day | An Animated Stock Yard. Same 50's technology, but with a cattle car - equipped internally the same way, so the cows can mooooooove through it. I slightly modified the cattle car. I took the link couplers off and replaced them with vintage knuckle couplers. The ACG factory authorized this modification and even made a kit to do it with. Also shown is a 302 die-cast Atlantic with smoke-in-boiler. |
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| Louis, the Oil Drum Loader - animated. | Ashbaugh Log Loading Station - animated. |
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E-mail:timboy@att.net
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