When l was a kid, my brother and l had Marx 3/16, but two neighbor kids had Flyer, Atlantic sets. In the large dept. stores, l rarely saw the individual Marx 3/16 cars we hunted, but saw and wanted the Flyer Northern..this post WWII, and it was no longer 3 rail. I wanted Marx to have Mikados, Consols, and those Northerns. In those stores l remember many attractive Flyer steam sets, chuffing, but only Lionel Santa Fe F unit sets. Flyer had real steamer wheel arrangements, Atlantics and Pacifics, but not freights,nor did Lionel or Marx have the freight power that shunted coal hoppers down at my depot, and both had some goofy wheel arrangements. Back in trains years later l looked for those 3 rail Flyer Northerns... Himmel! Es gibt Zinkpest! And today l don't seek that roadname.
|
|
