Gilbert Paper from the Ray Mohrlang Collection

This two page spread appeared in The Toy Yearbook for 1950 and 1951.  The yearbook appears to be a cooperative advertising device used by smaller retailers which was arranged through a trade organization for these stores.  This particular sample comes from Koehlinger's Toy Store in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.  Initial research indicates that Koehlinger's, which was also know as Koehlinger's Hobbytown had stores in several midwest cities.

This ad was no doubt the ad that preceded the introduction of the first smoking locomotives in March of 1946

1947 Newspaper Ad	1948 Newspaper Ad	1956 Newspaper Ad
1948 Spiegel Catalog Page	This was Ray's first train set	Gilbert Ad from Model Railroader
Toy Yearbook - 1952
B.F. Goodrich catalog page featuring American Flyer trains - 1955 These appear to be a selection of cataloged sets from the 1955 American Flyer catalog.