I’ve never run into one of those gray 490s… had to look it up on the web. Going to be keeping an eye out for one! I knew there was a gray 1666, but didn’t know about the 490 having a gray version too.
-El
I actually got mine as a shell only with no motor. I don’t know for sure what was originally
in it, but the rear steel cab floor where the back of the motor clips in is slightly larger than what you have with a regular AC motor, so I will have to alter it slightly to fit in this reversing motor I got.
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I found a vid of one, that was fitted with the ‘one way’ single reduction motor. I have a normal black 490 with this configuration as well, a small metal bracket clips into the front of the shell to hold the motor in place. No headlight! Not sure if all the gray ones came that way, but doesn’t seem unlikely to me.
-El
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Heading up a Union Pacific cattle train is a 591 stamped metal locomotive with a die-cast boiler front and pilot.
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Wow! The way Marx SHOULD have made it!
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If I could give you a thousand likes for that loco I would! 
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For sure
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Appearing in 1954, a Santa Fe livestock car was one of Marx’s first medium weight 8-wheel plastic freight cars to be produced. Although I am not a great fan of Marx’s plastic cars, I do like the livestock cars and have enough of them to make up a complete cattle train.
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So long guys, see you in the supermarket! 
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Corny! Like the beef I had for dinner! 
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Marx NYC Wrecker from the 1930s, mounted on an 8-wheel frame with tab and slot couplers. (This same car, with one-way automatic couplers cost considerably more.)
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A 490 locomotive does yard duty as a switch engine. (The slope-backed 961 NYC tender gives the engineer greater visibility to the rear.)
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I have the black version. The maroon is on my wish list, but only for the right price- I have too many locos already
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What’s the builder of the Switcher model? it looks like a Baldwin to me
Does Marx still make models? or are they hard to get?
B
For the Train Collectors Association Convention held in Fort Worth in 1996, Jim and Debbie Flynn’s New Marx Trains prepared four limited edition, 7-inch Tarantula Railroad TCA Convention Cars using original Marx 7-inch tooling. No locomotive was made to go with them, so I substituted a vintage Marx Santa Fe Alco S3 Switcher which is a good color match.
After @Eric1946 posted this engine with the Tarantula cars I started hunting for this engine and I finally found it.
(photo to come)
As promised…
Enjoying the World’s Greatest Hobby
Northwoods Flyer
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