Marx Photo Gallery

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:22 am

I don't know much about Marx, but I have a few pieces. Here's a four-wheel Pennsy hopper from somewhere:

Any info regarding vintage would be appreciated.

Paul

Post by **paulrace** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:40 pm

Paul,

I've asked a friend to take a look

- Paul

Post by **paulrace** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:00 pm

Apparently these were made for decades. Metal couplers imply prewar. According to my friend they're pretty common. To me it's pretty period.

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Tue Mar 10, 2015 2:48 pm

here are three of the best sources of marx info...

http://www.toyandtrainguides.com/marxtin.htm

http://www.marxtinplatetrains.com/

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Mar ... op=eupdate

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 6:28 am

Thanks Howard!

Paul

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:45 am

Marx at the Woolworth's display at the National Christmas Museum in Paradise, Pa.:

Very cool...

Paul II

EDIT :: Unfortunately, the National Christmas Museum closed a couple of yeas ago. I was lucky to get a look a few months before it was shuttered.

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:24 pm

My one example of Marx motive power, the 999. This is a postwar version, as best I can tell. Since I run it primarily with four-wheel freights, I typically pair it with the four-wheel "wedge" tender seen here. I do have an eight-wheel two-truck version which I run when towing a string of the 3/16" cars. This thing runs well, albeit a bit on the fast side. Like most Marx locos, it's prone to excessive sparking if the center-rail pickup gets dirty. It's not too difficult to clean it, but it gets dirty pretty quickly. I always thought that proportionally, the 999 was the nicest looking of the diecast Marx locos, but maybe that's just me. Interestingly, it has a kink in the loco hand-rail similar to that found on the Lionel 259/259E.

winced36 · Post by **winced36** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:25 pm

One of the 6-inch cars I run behind the 999 is this B&O 241708 gondola. I'm not sure if it's prewar or postwar. I found it in a local antique shop, seemed in reasonable shape, even included four small wooden barrels. It had plastic wheels on it, but I swapped those out for a set of tin. Plastic wheels might have been indicative of a postwar vintage...not sure.