In Appreciation of Marx

Normally I do a twice around the tree with a crossing using Fastrack. This year I opted for a simple loop so I could run a few Marx engines. I bought an M10005 set off eBay over the summer, and had never ran it until I set the tree up. It didn't run! A bit of cleaning took care of that (the previous owner lubed it enough for himself, me, and likely it's next caretaker).

J White

Ken - No lights flickering, no volume issues, no smoke units not working... Is that what our hobby is all about??? 

That Marx looks just fine!

Very nice...thanks for posting the pix!

here's my Marx 333(smokes great!) and NYC crs

When I was a young guy growing up in Brooklyn, NY I had a 2046 frieght set, a ZW, a milk car and a cattle car and that was about it. I didn't have much money to add crossing signals/gates, beacons, yard lights and the like on my "huge" 5 x 9" ping pong board floor layout so Marx became my go to source for lighting accessories. Most of the time I only had $2 for an accessory and the toy store on 86th street carried the complete Marx line. I bought a new Marx accessory nearly every December. Marx accressories never worked great with their insulated track clip system (which was just a formed piece of copper that fit over the rails) but they did work, were trouble free and added some activity. IMO Marx were always the poor mans trains. I still have my Marx accessories today.