I second that!
Chuck
1 Like
The first rail book I purchased and still one of the best!
Welcome aboard Eric! Your Marx collection’s impressive and the photos first-rate! Nicely done!
1 Like
As Charlie Chan would say, “Thank you so much.”
This thread is for everyone to post their Marx photos.
1 Like
No. 1 Wm. Crooks 4-4-0 plastic Locomotive and 3551 1st Div. St. P. & P.R.R. metal Tender (customized by Baldemar Manzo)
7 Likes
1829 plastic 4-6-4 Locomotive and matching 2731 plastic Santa Fe Tender (repainted by Baldemar Manzo)
7 Likes
Thank you!
Here’s a pic of my first train. I got it the day after Christmas when I was a year and a half. Why the day after? Grandpa had bought another train–some small, kiddie set–that was inoperative out of the box. He went back to Sears the next day and bought the only set they had left, a #15765. The box is a replacement, and all the track is Marx but not all is original to this set. The original logs have been replaced, but the loco and rolling stock are all original. It gets run every year at Christmastime and sometimes on other days.
One year at Christmas.
9 Likes
8 Likes
WOW Eric you got one heck of a Marx collection!
Chuck
3 Likes
palallin, we have that exact Christmas stable. It was my mother’s, and we got it when she died. I recognize it based on the background inside the stable!
It still gets set up each year on our fireplace mantel. (By the way, that spelling looks incorrect to me, so I looked it up and that’s the correct way to spell the shelf above the fireplace. I think I’ve been misspelling it my whole life.) 
2 Likes
666 die-cast Locomotive with 951 “Wedge” Tender (customized with the Nickel Plate Road name by Baldemar Manzo)
9 Likes
York1, that’s cool! This set belonged to my grandparents, who passed it to my mom when they got a newer set after a big move (I have that one, too).
Don’t feel bad: it took me until I was a year or two into grad school before I finally could spell separate without looking it up (and my degrees are in English!) 
4 Likes
11 Likes
Wow, that looks awfully good from the photos. Nice find !
Rich
1 Like
Love it!
Paul
2 Likes