I grew up with Marx hand me downs. Marx is still my main collection. I love the 3/16 line up. About 2 years ago I decided to dabble into scale or high rail before I built my layout. I didn't like it. I really prefer tinplate and about a year ago fell down the prewar rabbit hole.
If you'd told me 2 years ago I would have a large prewar Lionel layout. I'd have said you'd be nuts.
The 763 and these coaches are the closest thing I have to scale right now and considering what else I own they really stick out since they aren't vibrant enameled or lithographed colors.
My issue now is my layout doesn't have 72 curves. I have to make some tough decisions on how to proceed from here because I'd really like to run these guys from time to time.