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I just realized that I have one Bogota and two Montclair coaches to pull behind my Commodore Vanderbilt. This train doesn't get alot of action because of the rattling noise and the inability to slow down, but I still like it.

I assume an actual set would have had three different cars. What car should I be on the look out for to complete the set?  

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 Clean your CV arm.plate, wipe brushes well, clean&shine brush tubes, check springs are good & tight, wheels not "powdery"(polish). My CVs will go from a creep at full throttle, 18v; to flying at 12v and creeping at 8v once freshly "tuned". They don't like brush dust in the plate gaps or resistance from oily/varnished/tarnished surfaces .

Robert Grossman Co used to have the pickup/light assemblys.

What is a reasonable price point for a observation to go with the Bogota and Montclair cars?  Now that I know to look I have seem them for about $28 on the bay, which seems kinda high since I only originally paid 40 bucks for the three cars I have plus the CV and tender.  One was lighted and one was not.  the lighted one seemed to be missing the lens, making it quite overpriced to me.

 

I think this will be a wait until I see one at a show type purchase for me, but still curious as to what's fair.

 I don't watch trends close, and definitely operate more than collect, but the most I've paid for a Marx car was $8 for a nyc coal tender and $17 on some post war streamlined SF about 5 years ago. None super pretty; just "play grade".

Two years before that it was spare change to $5 around here.

  The highest show price I saw was a like new, red on red/white observation, gold deck, for $25 in 2015. (I cleaned out his spare parts instead)

Scotie posted:

Wondering if Marx intended the Bogata car to be pronounced like the South American city or the town her in NJ that we call Bah'-go-ta?

i called up the Bogota (NJ) public library years ago to ask...their answer was the stress is on the "GO" as in bah-GO-ta.

Bogota and Madison are both NJ towns where some of Marx's dept store customer execs lived.

not to get off on a tangent track, but "Squaw Bonnet" is the Marx name that has always puzzled me.  there is a mountain in NY named Snowy Mountain that claims it used to be called Squaw Bonnet, but it wasn't a town, just the mountain.  maybe it was a ski resort, too?

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Scotie posted:

Wondering if Marx intended the Bogata car to be pronounced like the South American city or the town her in NJ that we call Bah'-go-ta?

i called up the Bogota (NJ) public library years ago to ask...their answer was the stress is on the "GO" as in bah-GO-ta.

Bogota and Madison are both NJ towns where some of Marx's dept store customer execs lived.

not to get off on a tangent track, but "Squaw Bonnet" is the Marx name that has always puzzled me.  there is a mountain in NY named Snowy Mountain that claims it used to be called Squaw Bonnet, but it wasn't a town, just the mountain.  maybe it was a ski resort, too?

Just another of Louis Marx sales ploys, naming products after towns or points of interest that appealed directly to the retail toy buyers of department stores. The Squaw Bonnet was an actual sleeper car on the UP streamliner that was built by Pullman in 1936 and stayed in service until 1953. Sold for scrap.

Thanks to another forum member reaching out, I now have a matching observation!!

Thanks Gary!

Here it is on the FCC (filing cabinet central).  The whole train looks great combined with the recently acquired wedge tender.  I may have to interchange equipment again soon and take the train home to stretch its legs.  (Funny thing I noticed last night though - I have tinplate passenger equipment from Marx, AF, Lionel, and MTH.  And its all red!!!)

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