Collecting With Marx

thanks Steve!

Yes Steve thanks! Very cool stuff.

Thanks Steve!  This will be very helpful!

Here is Issue 2

This is great stuff, Thanks Steve! Copied them to my Marx file.

Bubba McNoodle tells how he has a train car with the fingerprint of Louis Marx inside, because Mr Marx built the trains himself.

Very good !!   Thanks, Steve

"The Bunny Express prototype. Found in a
junk box(!), this prototype was in excellent
condition (above)."

...Aughhh!

interesting stuff...thanks, Steve.

Issue 3, note how he now stopped using Vol I and from now to the end only refers to the issue number.

Steve

Thanks Steve for sharing these. Great reading.

Dean

Issue 4

Here is issue 26. Putting this one up out of order just for Winupguy. James, nice chart on CV's.

Steve

Steve,

Thank you for issue 26. I found (and bought) a Commodore Vanderbilt set last Saturday and you just uploaded this issue and I could check what type the engine was. I found out that it was an electric CV but with a clockwork shell. According to the charts that is an "illegal" version. I will describe the set further in a separate topic, since I have some more questions about it.

Regards

Fred

Thanks for posting #26 Steve. That issue had the Cuban-made dump truck listed in it. Speculating that we may very soon find a plethora of Cuban-made 4-inch truck loads, now that the trade embargos with them have been virtually removed.

Here is Issue 5

Steve

Today is two for one. Here are issues 6 & 7.

Steve

Here's 2 more, Issues 8 & 9.

Steve

Steve - thank you for scanning the Collecting with Marx issues. These have valuable information and I greatly appreciate your willingness to share them. I hope you share all of them eventually. Thanks!

Thank you Steve!

Glad they are being enjoyed. Scanning them is time consuming.  Here is a big blast, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14

Steve

THANK YOU, THANK YOU - love seeing these.

Here is 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20.

If anyone wants all the issues on a thumb drive, let me know. With the cost of the drive and shipping, I would want $20.00.

Steve

Thanks Steve! 

Thanks so much for supplying Collecting with Marx up through Issue 20. It is greatly appreciated and we look forward to more issues when you have time. THANKS!!

21, 22, 23, 24 & 25

Papa Eastman

Thank you so much for posting these. For all in the hobby these are a treasure trove of information and enjoyment. Your post makes so much available for hours of entertainment and knowledge seeking.

Another thank you for providing these. I had never heard of this publication before. Can't wait to dig into them and learn a bunch about Marx.

J White

These last five issues were especially interesting. Thank you again for sharing. As usual we sure hope to see more. Thank you for your generosity.

Here is 26-31. Getting close. If anyone wants them all on a zip drive, I will be glad to send it, $20.00 shipped including the drive.

Steve

I just started downloading them, they take a while to open.

Steve,  Thanks for making Collecting with Marx available to everyone.  I bought Issue 1 thru 26 as a lot on ebay several years ago.  I had never heard of the magazine before that time.  I learned much from them.  It took a while to get the last issues but I finally did.  I have asked this question and have never received a good answer.  Does anyone know why he quit making the magazine?  Was it work, the kids, health or what?

Rich Henderson

I agree that making these available here is great, and greatly appreciated too. I have also wondered why the magazine was discontinued as it provided so much insight and value to this phase of the hobby. Wish someone who had the knowledge and ability would start it up again - possibly just electronically if nothing else. Thanks to Papa Eastman for supplying the copies we are currently enjoying.

Steve,

How timely!  I just purchased a very nice complete Marx 666 set in the box last week.  My first Marx set in my 45+ years of owning trains!  Why didn't I buy one before?  I don't know.  Now the 666 is Mark's Marx!   I know, really bad pun!!  Everyone is rolling their eyes around the room.

Steve,

Thanks for posting these.  I'm not a Marx collector but my late brother, Jim Tucker, sure was.  He was on the Marx Standards Committee for TTOS.

He had most, if not all, of these newsletters on a shelf with his other Marx related books.  I remember him references one of them as he tried to explain why a Marx piece he had was so expensive.  I noticed a letter of his was published in one of the newsletters you posted. Haven't looked at them all yet, but I will. 

I would like to see that collection reprinted, by Greenberg, or somebody, and made commercially available as a bound book, maybe to go with the other Greenberg Marx books.

That's all folks

Hi,

Thanks a bunch Steve for all the work you did to make "Collecting with Marx" available to the readers here!

And thanks to Marx Claussen for having produced the magazine. I produced a monthy newsletter for 14 years myself and am fully aware of both the joy and the pain you endured doing the magazine.

Take care all,

Dick

Thanks for taking time out to share all these "Papa E".

Seeing how I also took the time to save them all, since day one,

I'm  guessing, just maybe, I should read them now too

Downloaded all of them over breakfast. Thanks for sharing these. There is all too little info like this easily available to Marx collectors. Should make a nice addition to my humble library.

I just finished downloading them all as well.  Thank you very much, Steve, for sending these along!!