My uncle gave me all of his American Flyer trains. I'm not familiar with Royal Blue, but I will be running it on my Christmas layout this year. I thought I would share a few pictures.....
The Royal Blue is a beautiful locomotive and the Flyer version is quite close to the prototype Pacific on the B&O Railroad. Flyer came out with the Royal Blue before WWII for its 3/16th O gauge line and reintroduce it post war. However it was always with a low end freight set post war, never with matching passenger cars. It was not until it transformed into a silver or crome paint design (and went from die cast to Plastic) did it finally come with passenger cars. I have seen alot of use New Haven style cars that have been painted in B&O colors for use with the Royal Blue locomotive. I refurbished and repainted a set of broken heavyweight cars 40 years ago for my Royal Blue to pull and still use them today!
Your uncle has given you an outstanding gift. Treat it as you would any fine heirloom.
The Royal Blue was my favorite Flyer engine, I am a 3rail guy but I do have one of those on the shelf.
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You have a very nice Uncle
Jim
Very nice. Congratulations and hope you get plenty of enjoyment out of it.
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The S gauge #350 is a nice engine, and as stated above it spawned a whole family of streamlined sets including the circus set.
You are fortunate to have a nice example of the Royal Blue and some great passenger cars.
Sir James is your shelf queen an S gauge example? You could add the Prewar O gauge version too and have a great passenger set. Do you still run conventional power on your layout?
Here is the O gauge 3 rail version.
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I have the 2 rail later version w/cast in handrails. Along with a couple other Flyer engines I will run on the floor about once a year.
Those kinds of hand me downs I'd take all day long. Beautiful set!
By an accident of birth, I sadly have no such relatives to pass on to me this type of heirloom. You have quite a treasure.
Jack
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I just purchased an American flyer 30B transformer to run my trains. I hope it has enough power for the new train.
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