>From what I recall of my childhood AmFly set, the difference then was scale, >mine smaller than Lionel (and less expensive). I had the Burlington Zephyr >aluminum streamliner (in the 50s) because I had ridden a version of it from >Phoenix to LA in 1952 when I was ten. Lionel had 3 rail track, my AmFly had >only two (why have more, I dunno).
When I left for college in 1960 as soon as I got on the plane my mother sold my Slingerland Drum set, and my train set. Bummer. On Oct 29, 2013, at 11:34 , Alan C wrote: > Yes, you're right. Lionel track was O gauge but all the early Lionel rolling > stock, including locos, were under-scale, closer to S than O. I was confusing > gauge & scale. I still have quite a bit of it and everything is small > compared to my stock of European origin. More recent Lionel trains are both O > gauge & O scale 1:48. I have a Texas Special A-B Diesel loco which is full O > scale. European O is a little bigger 1:43.5. BTW, according to what I read on > the Web, American Flyer never made S gauge stuff. The plot thickens! > > I might just be tempted to dust everything off, put down a few meters of > track & take some side-by-side snaps. > > Alan Joseph McAllister [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
