Lets see your Marx tinplate locomotives and cars. Along with any kitbashed ones if anyone has done one.
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The Louis Marx 3/16 scale series is very collectible in my house. Here is perhaps my most ambitious effort on one of them, a baggage car made from an ATSF coach, the variation with windows that were only indented and lithographed. The windows were filled in with putty, except for the ones that were needed.
The tender in the second photo is a Lionel coffin tender mounted on 6-wheel trucks made of Lionel Scout, American Flyer and Marx parts. The Marx 333 loco needed a beefier tender, IMHO.
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Got this custom made engine and tender off the bay. I thought it was a custom Marx CV, but it turns out it is all hand made from wood with a Marx motor and Marx tender.
The Marx Goose, A cheap Paya knock off front end and frame with a Marx caboose shell on the back. It is powered by a K-Line speeder power chassis. It also has a diesel sound unit for a BUDD RDC.
Marx never made a wrecker in 3/16 so I created my own. Everything is Marx except the side grills.
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The Louis Marx 3/16 scale series is very collectible in my house. Here is perhaps my most ambitious effort on one of them, a baggage car made from an ATSF coach, the variation with windows that were only indented and lithographed. The windows were filled in with putty, except for the ones that were needed.
The tender in the second photo is a Lionel coffin tender mounted on 6-wheel trucks made of Lionel Scout, American Flyer and Marx parts. The Marx 333 loco needed a beefier tender, IMHO.
Looks great
Got this custom made engine and tender off the bay. I thought it was a custom Marx CV, but it turns out it is all hand made from wood with a Marx motor and Marx tender.
The Marx Goose, A cheap Paya knock off front end and frame with a Marx caboose shell on the back. It is powered by a K-Line speeder power chassis.
Marx never made a wrecker in 3/16 so I created my own. Everything is Marx except the side grills.
Really like the crane
Here are a couple of ours and a few of the start of our layout . Gary Lisa and the Girls
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A couple more. Gary Lisa and the Girls
Trying again Gary Lisa and the Girls
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Not trains but a few of the train room . Along with my fireman and conductor .Gary Lisa and the Girls
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Here's a freshly repainted Commodore Vanderbilt pulling a string of 4 wheel 6" cars on our modular club's layout. I think that curve is a 10' diameter:
This is my Marx layout with a way too long passenger train on it:
J White
Here's a freshly repainted Commodore Vanderbilt pulling a string of 4 wheel 6" cars on our modular club's layout. I think that curve is a 10' diameter:
This is my Marx layout with a way too long passenger train on it:
J White
Awesome
It's amusing what all these people find to put Marx motors into.
Out of all the cars and engines I own twenty out of twenty-six are Marx and they're still running. But there is one Lionel hiding in this picture, kinda like where's Waldo