First American Flyer Set

The first American Flyer trains were manufactured by Edmonds-Metzel Mfr. Co. in Chicago in 1907.  The first engine and tender combination looks like the freight engine of the dual train set.  The engine in the dual train set is the second version of that engine.  The first version has 4 thin boiler bands instead of the two broad ones, it has a handrail along the boiler, the overhang of the back of the cab roof is shorter and the connecting rods are a two piece hinged affair instead of the single piece metal stamping. It was manufactured in its first form from 1907-1910.  The second version was made from 1911-1914, and the third, which looks like the second except it has the addition of three rows of rivets around the boiler. The first cars were 4 1/2 inch, 3 window passenger cars with the lettering "Pullman" above the windows and the lettering "Chicago" below them.  The windows were either punched or unpunched.