I bought a handful of junk cars to get some Type G trucks for some projects. I accidentally got a nice silver grey plastic gondola with scale trucks and I don’t need the car or trucks
Love Marx 3/16"… don’t have a ton of it, but it’s really neat. Somewhere I have a SP tender, but the rest of my 3/16" equipment is all lithographed tin. I know they did produce 3/16" sets with plastic cars, though.
-El
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Kinda sorta. K-LINE had a limited line of cars produced using the MARX molds that they sold with S Gauge trucks mounted on them. Truth be told they were about as compatible with Flyer S Gauge as an S Gauge boxcar would be with a MARX 999. They towered over their S Gauge counterparts exactly the same way Lionel’s “scout” cars would. One version of 3/16ths scale isn’t as correct as the other and my money is on Gilbert when it comes to who’s right.
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This is true. Also, while definitely not all of them, Marx did do a fair few 3/16" cars that really are 3/16" scale. Or at least, they scale very well alongside American Flyer. I know I posted in the coffee pot, a tender shell I created by removing the truck frames from a plastic Marx 4 wheel tender. With a few modifications it will mount onto a Gilbert tender chassis, and the scale is just right.
The hoppers look pretty close too, hard to say. The boxcars are pretty close for length and width, but are too tall. I was looking at my items after discovering the tender shell was very nicely scaled, and wanted to see what else I had that might be close.
While some of Marx’s O27 was on the mark, I don’t think Lionel was ever shooting for 3/16" scale. I’ll have to compare some things, but I think they’re just too darn big.
-El
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Yes I have the SP tender with rusty 3/16:trucks, too, somewhere in a box of future projects
The scout (aka “plug door” although that’s also incorrect) boxcars are exactly the same size as Marx plastic stock cars. I had a Southern Pacific set with a #666 diecast loco, SP tender, Cities Service tank car, Santa Fe stock car and SP caboose. The stock car matched my Lionel 6014 Frisco car but was quite a bit smaller than my 6473 horse transport car. I could have put my Flyer S Gauge MoPac stock car inside the Marx car.
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Becky, I realize that there may have been more than one Marx stock car type in plastic…
I was thinking of the car in this set, which is made up of cars on 3/16" trucks. The stock car looks very appropriate for S gauge.
Note that the roof of that yellow stock car is less steeply “peaked” than other Marx stock cars and boxcars.
-El
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