Message 100
From: frilen2
Date: Thu Jun 21, 2001 4:26 pm
Subject: Re: 1966 T-166-6 catalog
Hi Brad Any chance of adding some of these pictures to the Club Photo
section?...Karl
Message 99
From: belairchevy
Date: Wed Jun 20, 2001 8:58 pm
Subject: 1966 T-166-6 catalog
Just received a nice AF 1966 dealer catalog.
Shows all three regular All Aboard sets and the rear
cover shows the Winter Wonderland Set all in color!
It's interesting to note that the 1965 dealer catalog
photos show the "L" house in the six and eight panel
sets. All photos in the 1966 catalog show the regular
colonial house. Another interesting feature is the James
Bond Scenic Panel Race sets shown in three different
versions. A very interesting catalog.......Brad
Message 98
From: fkopetz2000
Date: Wed Jun 20, 2001 5:11 pm
Subject: Re: unopened 800
Well.... Maybe it's better, given the
seller's record, that I didn't get that set. I used
some of the money and got something else instead...we
shall see what comes up some other
time. Regards.... Frederick P. Kopetz
Message 97
From: myflyertrains
Date: Wed Jun 20, 2001 10:24 am
Subject: Re: unopened 800
This high bid surprised me, but a similar set
sold on eBay on April 2nd for $450.00, and it was
used, though "used very
little".
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1126639723
If you care to look at the auction before eBay drops
it from the database... I had no problem with
the 567 price, but will the winner ever see his set?
The seller was a zero feedback with glasses, whose ID
goes all the way back to June 5th of this year! This
seller was a total unknown quanity, and after being a
eBay user for over 2 years, I was afraid of this, and
this was the reason I did not bid on either of his
auctions. The seller also wanted only a cashiers check or money
order as payment. I felt it was too risky for me...
Message 96
From: david_garber2000
Date: Tue Jun 19, 2001 6:38 pm
Subject: unopened 800
wowwwww 567+++++ how much is it worth after you open it???
Message 95
From: myflyertrains
Date: Mon Jun 18, 2001 8:42 pm
Subject: Re: My New Champion 800 ? (I hope...)
So you are the one! I have been watching this
auction as well, but have pretty much decided not to bid.
You have been in quite a bidding war today with
another fellow! I was a little concerned about the
seller. A zero with glasses who has been an eBay member
since something like June 6. But I wish you good luck!
May another virgin Champion 800 set find a home with
a fellow club member!
Message 94
From: fkopetz2000
Date: Mon Jun 18, 2001 7:30 pm
Subject: My New Champion 800 ? (I hope...)
I posted a while back that I was hoping to get a
Champion 800 set like my boyhood AF set. Have bid on one
of the ones on eBay...just a few hours to go...I
hope I win it.... It would be so cool if I won
it and when it arrived, I opened it and took a trip
in time back to Christmas 1965 when my parents
opened my set and put it together and let me help (being
just three then) If this works out...can do it myself
this time...if I win this set, it WILL be run! No
doubts. Hoping to smell more Flyer smoke soon... Fred K.
Message 93
From: belairchevy
Date: Sat Jun 16, 2001 9:58 am
Subject: Whistle panel house
Group....had an interesting call from Bill at
Pufferbellys last night. He has a mint in the box whistle
panel (not for sale) and was inquiring about the "L"
house. While we were talking he opened the box and
unwrapped the house and it was the regular colonial house
not the "L". The outside of the box shows the "L" and
the wording on the box says colonial which the "L"
house is also known as, but inside, the regular
colonial! AHHHHHHHHHH! Thought sure we had found one but
the search goes on......Brad
Message 92
From: belairchevy
Date: Thu Jun 14, 2001 11:50 pm
Subject: Re: Champion 800/Commercial pics
O.K. looks like I will run the Champion 800. I
really liked the save it until December 25th idea
though. Christmas day in 1965 was when my brother and I
got a Pioneer 600 and an Aurora HO slot car set. Hit
the jackpot that year! About the TV Commercial
pictures...I use Webtv which has a feature called video
capture. I hook up my video camera to the Webtv and play
the tape "freezing" the picture at the desired spot.
The picture is then transfered over to file manager
at Geocities. You can also do the same thing with
short audio clips (wav). That is how I did the All
Aboard wav on my webpage.....Brad
Message 91
From: frilen2
Date: Wed Jun 13, 2001 10:47 pm
Subject: Re: Champion 800 has arrived!
By the way I vote with Chuck ...RUN IT Or, better
yet, Wrap it up, put away until December 25th., and
then be REALLY SURPRISED at what Santa left for
you.....mainly have as much fun with it as possible, how often
will an opportunity like that come along
again...ENJOY!!!!!! Karl
Message 90
From: frilen2
Date: Wed Jun 13, 2001 10:40 pm
Subject: Re: Snow Mountains
Hi Brad The video is "Classic TV Train
Commercials of the 50's and 60's" by Alpha Video
Distributors, Most is B&W but a portion on the All Aboard Sets
and Game train is in color. ...and I got it on
Ebay...where else? Now you have to share how you clipped the
video images for your website...they look great in B&W
too. ...Karl
Message 89
From: myflyertrains
Date: Wed Jun 13, 2001 7:16 am
Subject: Re: Champion 800 has arrived!
Brad, Enjoy your new set! If you
did not run it, who would you be saving it for? The
next generation does not care anything about toy
trains, and I have often told my wife that the last
boomer that dies is going to have a heck of a train
collection! Because of this, the prices of our trains will
probably plummet at some point as well. So there is
probably never going to be anyone that will enjoy that
Champion 800 set any more then you will. Go for
it!<br><br>And anyway, I don't think the ALL ABOARD 600 and 800
sets are all that rare new in the box. I saw some at
York last fall, and there are two posted right now on
eBay, in the
boxes!
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1606723798
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1606710245
Message 88
From: belairchevy
Date: Tue Jun 12, 2001 11:09 pm
Subject: Snow Mountains
Karl...Thanks for the great pictures. Guess I will try and paint some regular
mountains to look like snow. By the way, where did you get the color version
of the All Aboard film?....Brad
Message 87
From: belairchevy
Date: Tue Jun 12, 2001 11:02 pm
Subject: Champion 800 has arrived!
Group....My new Champion 800 arrived yesterday. This thing has truly never
been run. So what do you guys think...should I run it?......Brad
Message 86
From: myflyertrains
Date: Mon Jun 11, 2001 7:39 pm
Subject: Re: Chuck...It's One Month Old
Karl, It seems like it has been longer
than a month, it has been great fun. A special
welcome to the 25th member, traincity1. Thanks to
everyone who has joined. Please post to the group and tell
us about your All Aboard activities, whether you are
personally in to it, or dealing in All Aboard related
products. We are interested! I know I would be real
interested in purchasing the L shaped house that legend says
came with the early whistle panels! :-) I would
settle for a crossover panel though. Just recently
missed getting two of them. A day late!
Darn! Chuck
Message 85
From: frilen2
Date: Mon Jun 11, 2001 7:07 pm
Subject: Chuck...It's One Month Old
Hey Chuck Congratulations, The All Aboard Sets Club is 1 month old and 25
members strong.... A great start for a small but loyal group... Thanx
again for starting this Club site...Karl
Message 84
From: frilen2
Date: Sun Jun 10, 2001 12:00 am
Subject: Snow panel Mountain Pieces
Hi Brad The photos of the Snow panel mountain pieces are posted...Karl
Message 83
From: frilen2
Date: Sat Jun 9, 2001 11:12 pm
Subject: Re: Thoughts on L house construction
I went back thru a copy of the All Aboard promo
video. In one of the closing scenes just before they cut
to the set boxes is another shot of the "L" house's
back wall. Brad, your estimate of how they kitbashed
that wall makes perfect sense. I posted a copy, in the
all aboard house album, shot from the TV screen using
a digital camera. The quality's not too sharp but
you clearly can see how this wall is arranged. The
trellis being a billboard portion or the large window as
lattice would work very well.
Message 82
From: myflyertrains
Date: Sat Jun 9, 2001 10:39 am
Subject: Thoughts on L house construction
It looks to me like the PV 1701 rear house wall
was cut somewhere in the area of the big rectangler
window, leaving a portion of the window 2 squares wide
and four squares high to replace the original 4 high
by 6 wide larger window. We have also been
looking at the trellis at the side of the porch. My wife
thinks it may have been made by using one of these large
4 by 6 square windows. She had an even
better idea though, which is to cut up a couple of All
Aboard billboards, salvaging the lattice looking stuff
from them in order to make a trellis. I like this idea
a lot, it would make a nice looking one... The
billboards are cheap from Hobby surplus, so cutting them up
does not seem to distasteful. I still don't
know how to recreate the chimney. Again, the one on he
1701 is wrong... Brad's picture of the TV
commercial confirms to me, where to get the garage door
though! These are being sold by Hobby Surplus as well.
Message 81
From: frilen2
Date: Sat Jun 9, 2001 9:27 am
Subject: Re: A 4th Type of All Aboard house???
Chuck & Brad I think you both have found the photos that we need.
Great!!!!!!!!!...Karl
Message 80
From: belairchevy
Date: Sat Jun 9, 2001 8:46 am
Subject: 4th All Aboard House
If you go to the TV Commercial section of my
website, one of the pictures shows part of the garage on
the "L" house. Seems to me like the "L" is a
combination of the colonial and the 1701. Maybe we should
have a contest to see who can come up with an "L"
first! Don't they have an A.C. Gilbert day once a year
at the old factory in New Haven? Any of you guys
ever go there? Is it possible some of the old Gilbert
employees could shed some light on our questions. Just a
thought. Off to work on the real trains now.......Brad
Messages 79
From: portlines
Date: Sat Jun 9, 2001 5:36 am
Subject: Re: BALINT
I know nothing of him.....only the references in
Greenberg. Doug Peck Port Lines Hobby Supplies 6
Storeybrooke Drive Newburyport, MA 01950-3408 Shop
hours: Weekday evenings: 7 PM - 9:30 PM
EST 978-465-8798<br>1-888-708-0782 (Toll-free; Orders only,
please).
http://www.portlines.com portlines@mediaone.net
Message 78
From: myflyertrains
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2001 9:56 pm
Subject: A 4th Type of All Aboard house???
I just uploaded a new photo to the All Aboard
Houses section. It is a blowup from the 1965 catalog
cover from Brad's site. I always thought this house was
the L shaped house. But it has a garage, and if it is
the L shaped house, it is the side of the house we
have not seen, furthermore, it is nothing like the
Plasticville 1701 house on this side. Note the garage door,
etc. Am I going crazy or what?
Message 77
From: gilbertflyer2000
Date: Fri Jun 8, 2001 7:15 pm
Subject: Scenery for the mods'
I'll leave just a quick note. If anybody is
looking for the original, gray bridge, street
signs, fence, white billboards, or the original ranch house, they can
be found at hobby surplus. I order some of them and
they are the originals. If you want to contact them the
address is 187 main st. P.O. box 2170, New Britain, CT.
06050-2170. Also 1-800-233-0872, or www.Hobbysurplus.com. I
didn't Know if anybody else knew about this place, so I'm
just passing this information along if it will help
anybody.
Message 76
From: frilen2
Date: Thu Jun 7, 2001 9:17 pm
Subject: Still on the trail of the
Hi All In the Greenbergs Guide to American
Flyer Vol II, Under their #26122 Whistle panel
description, there is an intesting reference on page 102 to
the collection of a W. Balint. Does anyone know a
W.Balint? If I'm reading this reference right, they may be
able to shed further info on the elusive "L" shaped
house. Ive gone thru members lists for NASG, AFCC, and
an old NMRA directory with no results. I Know that
Doug Peck had been extremely helpful in providing
info, and AF Trains to Joe Deger in writing this book.
Hey Doug, any info on a W. Balint? Thanx as
always...Karl P.S. I am now the proud owner of a set of Winter
wonderland panels...They are in sad shape, but are originals