I'll head over to the 96 thread, but here are my small Flyer stations:
2 American Flyer #90s and one Flyer Town Depot. Last picture is my favorite detail and is on all the Flyer Town depots I've seen , the, "By American Flyer Mfg. Co. Chicago Illinois". I love how they fit that in there and I feel it really differentiates that it was indeed CHICAGO FLYER.
Also, I saw the discussion above regarding the resemblance between a Chicago American Flyer station and a Bub station. Love that stuff. Think how Ives was the template for Bing tinplate and the similarity wwith the Ives 116 station. Everyone knows William Hafner worked at American Flyer with William Coleman Sr. and left in 1914 tostart his own company. After Hafner departed there was a period in which Hafner, or Overland Flyer, and American Flyer put out very, very similarly styled trains . While not on the best of terms, had to have some influence on each other in terms of designing toy trains and running a toy train business. Further,Per TCA west, Hafner and/or Flyer might have bought from Bing into Post-WWI after the ban on German imports was lifted, which would further explain product similarity. There was a post-WWI "boom" for ty train innovations in Germany, despite the dysfunction, revolutions recession, and hyperinflation the Weimer Republic suffered. There was always a large amount of cooperation among the train companies in Nuremberg in which they'd produce items for each other, and given that Bing was eventually acquired by Bub in the early 30s, those 2 stations are awesome representations of the pre-1920 international train scene.
