@Don McErlean posted:Well I have quite a long post for today but I hope everyone will enjoy it. While working on an effort to inventory some of my collection, I have been going through some storage boxes that have sat unlooked at since we moved to Texas some 15 years ago. What I found, according to a note I left in the box, was something that I purchased when I was first starting to collect in Dayton, Ohio from a train show in the late 70's. So this item has been moved around the country waiting to be "discovered" again for some 45-50 years!! Anyway I hope you will enjoy this.
This is the outer or set box...it never had a locomotive or tender while I had it, likely missing from the set or perhaps it was not part of the set when purchased new. Note that the label reads "A.C.Gilbert Company, New Haven, Conn" so it post dates Gilbert's acquisition of American Flyer in February 1938 and the move of train production from Chicago to New Haven.
Well that was a long story and I hope you enjoyed it. Now I have to find out what locomotive pulled this set and then find that!! Likely a long process
Best wishes for a great weekend
Don
Don,
Your setbox is clearly stamped 9 for Set 9 of 1938. Set 9 featured a 4615-6 engine, which would be the 2-6-4 pacific type engine similar to the 1939 425 engine, but with decal identification instead of the rubber stamped numbers. See below:
