Lets See a Picture of Your Favorite Marx Engine

I dont have one, but Im on a mission to find the William Crooks, if anyone knows anybody who may be interested in selling Im definately interested.

 Some great pictures

There's always a rivet counter in the crowd. "Rivet counter" & tin plate trains is an oxymoron.

When you see a locomotive listed on the internet auction, and the tender is backward,

you assume that a non train person is offering it, and, that it will be offered at an

extreme..either an inexpensive bargain, or grossly overpriced, due to their lack of

knowledge of the market.

Yeh, maybe. Sometimes I hook them up backwards because the couplers happen to work better that way and other times just to hear from rivet counters.  

My 999 I picked up in a antique shop. ran great, but a bit battered.

 and my $13 666

I don't have a good 500 but I think that is my favorite.

Kinda like the small 5151 channel track engine too.

A Wm Crooks is one thing, an unbroken Crooks is something altogether different. Picked up an unused replacement shell with black cowcatcher and the short smokestack a few years back but haven't used it repair any of my broken units.

 Not being a real fan of plastic Marx but as a grade school boy during the Kennedy administration and the start of the great Space Race it is very hard not to enjoy these two.Gary

My Grand daughter's engine

They say the favorite is the newest, in this case it was another many year search that showed up this past week.

It is a pre war British Marx cast clockwork based on the Joy Line castings. I have seen some green ones, but could not come up with the $$$$. This is the first red one I had seen, and needed a different motor. Luckily in my junk bin was a Joy Line short wheel base motor.

First picture is as I got it with an incorrect size motor. The Bub tender will have to do for now. I do have a line on a correct tender.

Steve

Well, Steve, this is for you. This is my favorite Marx loco. It was cobbled together by my good friend, the late Dick MacNary. He had quite the sense of humor, maybe that's why he was infatuated with Marx!

ARNO

My repainted & redecaled 333.

What a waste of a good Unique Arts frame!

How unrealistic. Everyone knows the pantograph belongs on top of the cupola.

J White

Well, at least the motor is Marx!    Streetcar made from plan in an old Model Builder magazine.

Oh It very hard to decide I'm torn between The 994 with the Nickel Plate Road tender, the Mercury Copper Queen, and the M10000 Red and Silver.

 (note none of the engines I own)

+1 

finally got a pic of my 666

I knew Dick MacNary....was set up in several shows and York when he was.  Hate to

lose Marx aficionados...  When I first got into TCA, there was another guy out of

Michigan that was big in Marx....can't remember his name, but assume he has passed.

I just remember he had a quantity of those little Marx catalogs, about 3 different ones,

that came in later Marx sets...my favorite Marx engine is my kitbashed #1829 Mikado..

If I ever get around to it, I will do a #333 Consolidation, unless it is easier to make

an 1829 version.

"Steamer", your 666 looks good with the NPR tender, much better than the slope-back that you usually see.

thanks! The 666 always looked like too much engine for the wedge or the slope back tenders. The NKP tender fits perfectly to me.

I agree, the 666 needs a bigger tender and an 8 wheel Nickle Plate looks great with it.

Here's another 666 with a "nose job" plastic surgery performed with a Dremel and some styrene. This one generally runs with a Lionel tender though...

That pilot vastly improves the look of the front end.

Marx NYC 1666, there's a story about this particular

locomotive and how I re-acquired it, but that's a story

for another time.

Number 21.  A previous post mentioned nobody showing the tin ATSF diesel as a favorite.  It looks quite accurate.  As far as I can tell, it's pretty much scale size.  But it has poor pulling power.  It's not that the motor is weak, but it has no traction.

At least one forumite (Hello, Jason) has substituted a later traction-tired motor.  I was not successful in doing so, as the cast weight on the donor was too wide so as to allow a screwdriver down the side to install the screws.  Maybe it is a certain run, or era, of motor production that fits right in.

I solved the pulling power issue on my 21's by adding a Williams power chassis under it with 2 can motors.

Steve

That would do it!

I guess one can have more than one favorite.

I like my Marx 1998 switcher hybird with a Lionel SW 1 cut down body repainted in Point Comfort & Northern (Texas private ALCOA plant RR) colors. 

It is great size and great running engine on 027 layout with 27 Marx metal frog switches that includes a figure 8 in oval and a dog bone.

Charlie