@Greg J. Turinetti posted:Yup, the Northwoods Flyer posting on that thread would be me. That thread was a lot of fun and contains a wealth of informtion on 3/16 O gauge Flyer. I was sad to see it go dormant, and to lose contact with the folks who posted. Gray Cat ran into the situation that many folks did when Photo Bucket started to charge for storing photos to their site. MTN did you post there under a different handle?
Sorry Andre, I promise to try to stop hijacking the thread.
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Greg
I didn't post in the CTT thread but Art Shifrin did - I have posted here a number of times here about Marx and Flyer's 3/16ths O gauge trains. Art never got bit by the Marx 3/16ths O gauge bug (believe me, I tried); I personally found the lithographed Marx cars more attractive than the sheet metal Flyer 3/16ths O gauge cars (I will admit that several of the diecast Flyer cars such as the tank car and Pullmans look great, but boy do they weigh a ton). Without traction tires it's tough for the Flyer 3/16ths O engines to pull a very long train with diecast cars - Art had a machinist modify some drivers on his Flyer engines to accept traction tires so he was able to build up decent length trains. It is kinda fun watching the Flyer drivers slipping with a load that's a bit too heavy. I ended up running the Flyer engines (whose drivers I scored on the treads to enable a bit more grab) with the lighter weight Marx cars and that made for a very colorful combo which was of a reasonable length.
I don't have a layout these days so the trains are all tucked away - I have a pretty good stash of boxed/NOS Marx cars but never did end up with some of the tougher items like boxed flatcars or boxed passenger cars. As far as rare I have a red end PFE reefer car I scored out of a dollar junk box under a table at a local show about 15 years ago. A collector named Walt Hiteshew has a super site devoted to Marx trains - there's photos of tough to find 3/16ths O gauge rolling stock and photos of customized/custom built Marx trains that make it worth your while to take a look:
