Here is my latest find, or perhaps revelation. I don't know if anyone is interested, but I have
talked about how all the Marx and AF streamliners from the 30's era all used leftover
steam type motors with spoked wheels for power, cheap, but unrealistic. For Marx this
continued into the postwar era apparently as a lot of the smaller diesels use steam type
motors. I recently saw a Marx 6000 Southern Pacific diesel and it actually had disk wheels.
Granted it was still on the cheap type motor, but a step in the right direction. I bought one on the
bay. I took the motor out and tried it in an AF Comet. As we used to say in my hot rod days,
it was bolt in. I set the Comet body on the marx motor aligned the holes and put the
screw in. Hooked up the headlight, and everything ran fine. Modern motor now, more realistic
and best is an upgraded reverse unit. This mean of course that it will fit AF tinplate zephyrs
and green diamonds.
