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 Post subject: Marx Photo Gallery
PostPosted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:22 am 
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I don't know much about Marx, but I have a few pieces. Here's a four-wheel Pennsy hopper from somewhere:

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Any info regarding vintage would be appreciated.

Paul


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 Post subject: Re: Marx Photo Gallery
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Paul,

I've asked a friend to take a look

- Paul


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 Post subject: Re: Marx Photo Gallery
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Apparently these were made for decades. Metal couplers imply prewar. According to my friend they're pretty common. To me it's pretty period. :-)


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 Post subject: Re: Marx Photo Gallery
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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/MarxTrain/info?prop=eupdate


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 Post subject: Re: Marx Photo Gallery
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Thanks Howard!

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 Post subject: Re: Marx Photo Gallery
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Marx at the Woolworth's display at the National Christmas Museum in Paradise, Pa.:

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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.


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 Post subject: Re: Marx Photo Gallery
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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.


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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.


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Love all these pix!


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p.s. Regarding the National Christmas Museum, it is reopening in 2021 supposedly. Will keep you posted.


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