Here’s my other Marx locomotive. I repainted the clockwork CV and thought how great it would look with name plates. Especially since I planned to pair it with a Lionel tender. So I purchased adhesive backed Commodore Vanderbilt replacement plates from Olsen’s (way back when) to give it that unique touch. I run it with Lionel and Ives 1690 passenger cars.
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I love everything Monon, even 3-rail.
Rich
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Good looking steamer, pennytrains!
Rich
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Forgot to mention my little green and orange triple niner above is lettered for “State Railways of Thailand” and is intended to represent a meter gauge cane and bamboo burner.
The square tender has a knuckle but I also have a Marx slope back tender with a combination latch coupler for pulling tinplate cars (which it looks great with).
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So noted!
Rich
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How about a few accessories?
Here’s a trestle and bridge set. I think the Marx version is the best one ever made in O: I like the look of the steel trestle bents, and the stone/brick arch bridge reminds me of several I have seen locally (and it could very easily be painted and detailed by anyone so inclined).
Next, here’s a water tower. This is the all-black version (forgive the dust).
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During the 1950s, Marx made two mid-sized, lithographed metal General Motors Electro-Motive Division F-3 diesels wearing the liveries of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Southern Pacific prototype diesels. No B units were ever made, but both of these diesels had their own matching seven-inch cabooses.
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The Baltimore & Ohio 7-inch caboose was one of the few 7-inch cars that came on both 4-wheel and 8-wheel frames.
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That’s a beauty !
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I knew you would have one
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I always liked these
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The whole series of 7 inch cabooses are really nice in my opinion
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They look even better when remounted onto 8-wheel frames.
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Yes. The “F” trucks add a lot!
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Introduced in 1950, the 21 Santa Fe FT was not only the largest lithographed metal diesel Marx ever made but also a sly attempt on the part of Marx to lure away those Lionel customers who couldn’t afford Lionel’s popular Santa Fe EMD F-3 diesel. Not only was the 21 Santa Fe FT’s size proportioned to match that of Lionel’s rolling stock, but it also came with an optional metal knuckle coupler that allowed it to be coupled to Lionel cars!
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The number 21 that appears on the 21 Santa Fe FT diesel’s nose was the number of the Santa Fe Railroad’s westbound El Capitan, the all-coach Chicago-Los Angeles passenger train. To further confirm the El Capitan connection, Marx put the El Capitan name and logo on the observation car’s drumhead.
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When seen alongside Marx’s other lithographed metal diesels from the 1950s – the small Fairbanks-Morse class diesel and the mid-size EMD F-3 class diesel – the 21 Santa Fe FT’s relative size becomes apparent.
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Compared to the lithographed 21 Santa Fe FT, the “war bonnet” paint scheme on its replacement, the plastic 1095 Santa Fe E-7, looks crude and totally unconvincing.
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