American Flyer Transformers

American Flyer Transformers

Gilbert Transformers #1 through #5B are on this page
#6 through #18B are on page 2
#19B through #22090 are on page 3

Unless otherwise specified, the large pictures on this page are of Transformers in the collection of The Upstairs Train.

#1 25-watt Transformer made in 1949 thru 1952.
(Photo courtesy of Marcia Reynolds.)

Its box was plain.
(Photo courtesy of an anonymous donor.)

#1 35-watt Transformer made in 1956.
(Photo courtesy of Bev and Sid Zehner.)

#1A 40-watt Transformer made in 1957.
(Pictures above and below courtesy of Tom Iafrate.)

#1-1/2 45-watt Transformer made in 1953.
(Picture courtesy of Jacque Marsh.)

#1-1/2 50-watt Transformer made in 1954 & 1955.
(Pictures above and below courtesy of G. Elliott.)

And here's the box it came in.
(Picture courtesy of G. Elliott.)

#1-1/2B 50-watt Transformer made in 1956.
(Pictures above and below courtesy of G. Elliott.)

#2 75-watt Transformer made in 1947 thru 1953.
(Pictures above and below from the collection of The Upstairs Train.)

#2B 75-watt Transformer made in 1947 & 1948.
(Photo courtesy of an anonymous donor.)

#3 50-watt Transformer made in 1941.

#4B 100-watt Transformer with gray sheet metal case made in 1949 thru 1953.
(Pictures above and below courtesy of G. Elliott.)

The very rare #4BEX 100-watt Transformer for export with gray sheet metal case.
It's so rare that it's not even mentioned in the big Greenberg hardback book or in the 2000 TM Guide.
(Pictures above and below courtesy of Chuck Sullivan.)

To distinguish it from the 110V domestic version, the sides of the case are red.

This is its box.

#4B 100-watt Transformer with black sheet metal case made in 1949 thru 1953.
(Pictures above and below courtesy of Phil Opielowski.)

#4B 100-watt Transformer with plastic case made in 1954 thru 1957.
(Pictures above and below from the collection of The Upstairs Train.)

#5 50-watt Transformer made in 1946.
(Photo courtesy of an anonymous donor.)

#5A 50-watt 25 cycle Transformer made in 1946.

#5B 50-watt Transformer made in 1946.

Show me the rest of the Transformers.

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