A MARX MIKADO

Nice !  When do they go into production ?  Are you taken pre orders now?

Plenty of Mikados available now...they got the word.  I was hoping that New Marx

when it first emerged would go down this road, and also redo exact design 3/16 cars

,and  maybe a 3 or 2 bay hopper similar to the sought after LNE four bay one, etc., all with different roadnames than produced by Marx, of course.  However, they favored the six inch Marx.  Before New Marx I had sent one of the B&O 3/16 lithographed gons to Asia, as a sample,  and they said they could do it/them...send money...  I was working and would have wanted to see facilities in person, before anykronorleft thebuilding, because lithography seems to be a lost art here.  And then New Marx had the same idea, and the old molds, and one revived Marx is enough, butI think it has changed hands.

Is this boiler from the same tooling that K-Line used for their first dicast steamer back in the nineties?

This is the plastic 1829 shell. K-Line did use it sparingly, in a couple of circus set variations in 4-6-4 config. In general they used the die cast 333 shell as a 4-6-2 for for many years, upgrading the molds a few times before finally making a new mold that was almost identical. RMT/Aristo is now using those molds. Not sure if anyone has used the plastic mold since K-Lines early years.

Steve

Thanks Steve, but I had a K-line dicast steam engine that I was told came from the Marks line. If that is true then it must of been the 333 you are talking about.

Thanks, Mr. Eastman:  I was well aware of the 333 being duplicated by K-Line but

had not seen or heard of an 1829 being redone by them.  I will have to make an

effort to see one of those.