The second type is a Smoke in Boiler unit. It is in the boiler or main part of a steam engine. It was used on the majority of steam locomotives. There are 2 versions, the early version has two chambers, an upper and lower. The later version has only one chamber were the smoke wick and coil are located. The third type is also a boiler mounted unit, but is smaller and used in the Docksider and Franklin and Washington engines, and also the HO engines.
All types were designed to use a liquid smoke fluid. The fluid was sold in either small soft red ampules or bottles. Unlike Lionel, American Flyer never used smoke pellets.
There are two basic American Flyer Horn or Whistle units. All the steam and diesel engines that had horns or airchime whistles, except for the model AW, were about the same. They all require a special activation unit. The activation units must be wired to the track. The underside is shown below.
Pictures courtesy of Stout Auctions. The top of the boiler on my other is all molded plastic. The two metal pieces on the engine above are replaced by plastic.
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Shells and pieces of two steam engines that I remember taking apart, painting…straight up demolishing, were all over the box. Before I knew what I had, I realized that they were both very similar but very different at the same time. The main differences between these two are the Choo-Choo makes the choo-choo noise , smoke feature, and where the remote control unit is located.
Regardless of their differences, I thought that these engines were similar enough where I could piece one together from all of their combined parts. I came to realize that is not the case. After cataloging and inspecting all of the parts that I had, I soon realized that, along with lost parts, I was going to need to replace many of the parts simply due to their age and overall condition.
Between their time in a damp, dark and dingy basement and my younger self destroying them, these trains need some serious help.
Reading Lines was the road name logo of trains belonging to the Reading Company. The American Flyer Atlantic series engines are in the wheel configurations, which is a 4 leading, 4 driving, and 2 trailing wheel setup. Gilbert produced seventeen models in this Atlantic wheel layout consisting of , , , AC, , AC, , appeared in the — D catalog but not known to be produced , , , , , , , , , , and Early on Gilbert invented a model number schema where the last digit explained the features of the locomotives, 0: motor only, 1: choo-choo, 2: smoke and choo-choo, 3: knuckle coupler, 4: whistle, 5: whistle and pull-mor, 6: extended motor, whistle, and pull-more wheels.
An example of the wheel configurations, which is a 4 leading, 4 driving, and 2 trailing wheels. From my research, I have found the AC was featured in American Flyer catalogs from , , and However, an unclear locomotive body difference between catalog pictures is the discrepancy in hand rails and connecting rods.
In catalogs — D, — D, and — D the illustrations show the AC having the differences while in catalog — D the handrails are part of the cast boiler body and the connecting rod configuration matches my AC version.
This kit contained the rolling stock, as described by the Gilbert catalog, No. When using these locomotive and power supplies, the wiring for the action cars becomes more difficult as it is necessary to supply the DC power to the track to operate the locomotive and AC power to the activation section and the Base Post side of the track to enable operation of the action car.
There are special instruction sheet sections for this. Normally accessories such as street lights, lighted towers, lighted stations, and lighted bridges would be expected to be provided with 15 VAC to power the light bulbs. Gilbert American Flyer often included a No track terminal with these lighted accessories to enable the user to avoid long wire runs to parts of the layout away from the transformer. Usually both the wires supplied with the accessory were black but some of the time a black and a white wire were provided.
While this use of the track terminal saved on wiring it provided lighting around the layout that would be on and off with the control of the locomotive and would be dimmer or brighter depending upon the 7 to 15 volt transformer output being used to control the speed of the locomotive.
Wire supplied with the accessories and action car controls or included in permanent wiring connected to the accessories and action car controls is usually vinyl plastic coated number 18 AWG American Wire Gauge or size of the conductor [ wire is like pipe, bigger pipe carries more water, bigger wire carries more power ] just to confuse things the bigger the wire number, the smaller the wire.
Most often the wire supplied by Gilbert American Flyer is stranded many small wires bundled together within the plastic coating but again due to wartime shortages, there were some things supplied with solid wire single bigger conductor within the plastic coating.
Again the wire size was number 18 AWG. Instructions for No. The train is connected to the Base common and to the middle variable voltage post. Most accessories and lights are connected to the base and fixed voltage posts. Gilbert American Flyer Accessories and Locomotives had a variety of different wiring configurations. Some components took AC power and some required DC power. All hooked up to a transformer to get the appropriate power for operation. I found one a a train show, but the unit was missing wires and the controller wires were not attached to anything.
Would appreciate your help for the wiring diagram for this unit. Here is the link to the page.
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