Wow Guys what a great morning read. Fred - thank you for your book on streamliners, you can be sure that this reader has it downloaded and in memory, what super pictures. Robert Butler - thank you for the pictures as well. I liked the Hafner stream lined steamer and the Marx RED Mercury with an articulated tender (I had never seen one before). Greg, your pictures of AF prewar trains and the trains themselves is really helpful, i know you posted some info on some Chicago Flyer I had and it was the only info I could find. Thanks a lot
Now, although I also posted this on Front End Friday, I will include my Hafner streamliner here as well. By the way, this one is clockwork as you can see but has a headlight (battery for a "D" battery under the forward streamlined hood) and a "bell ringer" and bell for when its in motion. Makes a lot of noise and runs way too fast, so you have to govern speed by adding cars. You know if I remember correctly some of the very earliest toy trains worked the same way before transformers were common.
Fred, thanks again for making that "e-book" available, I really loved it.
Don McErlean
