Marx was just a lot more popular in the world I lived in back in the '50s. We had Marx and we saw it at Western Auto and Sears or JC Penny and everywhere. Lionel was very upscale - good, but much more expensive. I recall a store displauy at, I think, a Western Auto or Kress that looked a lot like that above. I had something similar under my bed for several years before we built our basement layout.
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