As a matter of fact, I do. Sorta.
The pic shows it on my layout a couple years ago for its 50th Birthday run.
Marx set #15765: #490 0-4-0 w/ slope-back tender and white caboose in NYC; red gondola in Pennsy, and blue log-dump car in Erie. Oval of 027 track with a trip to dump the logs on one straight. Metal-cased transformer.
I received it the day after Christmas, 1965. I was 1 year, 7 months old. My Grandfather had bought an all-plastic HO set of uncertain parentage that came with a playmat and some paper buildings and signs. I woke up to that on Christmas morning--at least, that's what the pictures show, I don't remember. But the dang thing didn't run--I'm told Grandpa was *mad*.
Anyway, the next day, he went right back to Sears and exchanged it for the only set they had left, this Marx set.
Oh my, but did I play with that train! Years later, after I got my first Lionel, the Marx set saw some rough duty, bashing through obstacles and enduring cornfield meets with friends' wind up Marx sets. You can't tell from the pic above, but the pilot and cab roof both have small pieces missing.
No matter, it still runs like a scalded cat--it *really* likes to stretch its legs on the 045 loop on the layout. I run it every year at Christmas, and it is the last train I'd ever give up if forced by circumstances to divest property. (The Lionel set from 1972 would be right before it in line).
It's not scale. It's not expensive. It's not MIB (I did buy a replacement box recently). But it embodies Electric Trains to me, the best and most cherished toy a guy could get.
Thanks, Grandpa!
