I'm helping a older man catalog his trains so he can sell them. While going his trains I found 2 MARX Seaboard Line # 4000 engines. 1 was powered and 1 was not. Looking on the net I'm now seeing that the MARX 4000 seaboard line engines were wind ups. Does he have something odd or modified or am I going crazy and blind at the same time????
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The Seaboard came as both clockwork and electric. The electric came with large or small motors. The Seaboard piece that is very rare would be the B unit.
Steve
I'm helping a older man catalog his trains so he can sell them. While going his trains I found 2 MARX Seaboard Line # 4000 engines. 1 was powered and 1 was not. Looking on the net I'm now seeing that the MARX 4000 seaboard line engines were wind ups. Does he have something odd or modified or am I going crazy and blind at the same time????
You are not seeing things that don't exist. The Marx Seaboard 4000 Diesel engine was made in both a wind-up version and a powered version. They were made in different years. Hopfully, one of our Marx experts can tell you which year each one was made.
Thank You both for help in understanding what I was seeing. The unpowered unit is not a true "B" unit.. it's just an unpowered "A".
Thanks again...
I flipped through the Matzke Greenberg Marx book, and saw the green SB small diesel, but didn't go through line by line in the print. I saw other A-A roadname versions of those stampings. WAS there actually a B for any of these? I am
just curious as I don't collect these.
The Monon and KCS B units are fairly common.
Steve
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