The copper Mercury coaches were the only Marx articulated coaches available with or without interior illumination.
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Here’s a couple pics of a work/wrecker train I am putting together. In honor of the Marx focus, I swapped out the Lionel switch tower for my Marx version. I am looking for motive power.
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Great looking layout, palallin!
Rich
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Flintlock76,
Your Wm. Crooks No. 1 is a masterpiece! Thanks for sharing!
Eric
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Thanks, Rich.
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Thanks Eric! You know, as a boy I played with it quite heavily so all the original markings were gone! I figured it was no sin to do a repaint at that point.
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It still appears unbroken. These locos are so fragile! The paint job looks great. How do you get such crisp lines, like on the gold stripes? With masking?
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Oh, it’s a bit rough around the cab but some sharp gluing and a good coat of paint goes a long way in hiding “battle scars!”
Right, after doing the base coat of green on the boiler I masked the areas around the boiler bands and hand painted the bands, the same with the gold stripe on the bottom of the tender. The smokebox and smokestack was hand painted black and the gold band on the 'stack was hand painted as well.
The “C R R of N J” on the tender was done with individual rub-off letters but let me tell you, I almost had a nervous breakdown doing it! This was 30 years ago, no home printers in those days to make your own decals with!
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Turned out great
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Thanks!
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During the 1950s, Marx made three small, lithographed metal Fairbanks-Morse diesels
wearing the liveries of the Kansas City Southern, Seaboard, and Monon prototype diesels.
These three diesels had matching B-units and were sold in A-A and A-B combinations.
All three of these diesels also had their own matching 6-inch 4-wheel cabooses.
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The Kansas City Southern FM diesel also had a 7-inch 4-wheel caboose (seen here remounted onto an 8-wheel frame.)
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Although Marx never sold its Fairbanks-Morse diesels in an A-B-A combination, some collectors have modified their B units to allow such a configuration.
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I have Monon A-B and Seaboard A-A and a Seaboard caboose. I always liked how they look on the layout.
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Monon had 7" caboose, too 
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