Marx Pennsy Stock Car Question

I'd be interested to know as well. I've never seen one in person, and only a couple on the bay.

I have two PRR stock cars, one decent one and one beater. I just don't see them too often and won't pay the price. In the 3/16 Marx, probably the red ended PFE reefer is one of the harder ones. Only seen a few and don't own one.

 

Steve

For a while, there looked like there was a different PRR stock car on the Bay

every week, but that has not been lately.  I , too,  usually balk at the price, having heard about one sold in a yard sale about 30 miles from here for 50 cents.  Nope, I did not get that one, wuss luck.    I am not much of a rivet-counter when it comes to Marx,

so usually only am interested in a different roadname, versus whether or not the

hopper has an end brace, etc.  But I would like to nore of the history of the 3/16th.

sounds like you have one too many Steve...........

The plan is to convert the beater to S gauge.

Steve

I bought one on eBay a few years back. When it came, there was a mighty dent in the roof. Looking back at the auction pictures, they were all taken from angles that did not allow the dent to be seen.

I managed to score a pretty decent red ended PFE reefer in a junk box at a local show - had to spend a whopping $1 to give it a new home.

 

The PRR stockcar is definitely one of the tougher Marx 3/16ths cars to find, especially in decent shape.  Never seen one in a separate sale box.  Loose ones do show up occasionally on Ebay.  The C&O flatcar is a tougher to find car - price guides usually have it listed at the same price as the B&M and NKP flats, but it doesn't show up nearly as often as those 2 cars.  The searchlight flatcar is also a harder to find piece, as well as a genuine NYC tin tender with searchlight.

I found my NKP flat in Lou Palumbo's junk box for a whole $2.

 Good price on that one!  I have several NKP flats, including the variation with no side stakes - that's another sleeper in the harder to find Marx 3/16ths car world...