I told this story a couple of years ago on here, but I'll do it again since the interest seems peaked. My cousin got a Flyer set for Christmas 1947 and I fell in love with it because all I had ever seen to that time was three rail stuff. I badgered my parents ceaselessly from that point on for a Flyer train set. It never happened. They were too poor to afford it. A year later I got a Marx Monon diesel set for my birthday. I ran it to death in about a years time, and that was that. One day in 1959 just after being discharged from the Air Force I was walking down a street in my neighborhood and saw a bunch of junk out in a guys front yard. It was the first "yard sale" I had ever come across. In the middle of it all was a huge cardboard box with some two rail track sticking out of it. I peeked, and behold, a whole bunch of Flyer stuff was in there. There was a 293 and 13 cars making up the uncataloged Sears "Near Miss" set from 1956/57. There was also a barrel loader, fueling depot, water tank, some Plasticville, 6 floodlight towers, about a mile of track, a pair of 720A switches and a 40 watt transformer. There were a few other pieces that escape me now but I bought it all......$20. The rest is history. I still have all of the stuff bought that day except the floodlight towers.
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