Gary, thank you very much for posting these photos. It helps put them all in context for me.
I really enjoy these very simple older pre-war 4-wheel (no trucks!) cars. I discovered the Marx 4-wheel cars first, and thought they were unique. Then I found American Flyer sets and got all excited. Finally I realized that Lionel and Ives, make that everybody, made these little cars at one time. More recently I got into the Hornby British version of tiny, 4-wheel lithographed cars.
The Hafners have a charm all their own. There is an ingenuity and simplicity of design that is really appealing. They are almost whimsical, like the Joy Line freight set with it's Eagle Eye caboose and Venetian Gpndola and so on. I mean, Peerless Stock Car, who thought of that?
Do any of you know of a good Hafner reference book? There is no Greenberg on Hafner??
