Hello. I was walking around the flea market at Roots Market, and happened across an HO battery operated set. It used a small container with a rheostat that would hold two D batteries, a steam loco and three freight cars, and an oval of HO track. I passed on it, it was $30, but had no opportunity to test the loco. The box was kind of iffy, and I didn't need another boxed set on the shelf. Hope I didn't goof.
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I am interested in Marx, but just the 3/16/deluxe plastic O gauge. Some people collect anything Marx....I would have walked on with barely a glance. I have owned and sold off HO Marx Hudson sets, DC, powerpack that are collectible and compatible with other HO of the period. I do not think you have missed anything. But old toys is not the only field in which people can pay big bucks for what I think is junk. (I cannot remember tables covered with those at York, and only see those kinds of sets in
yard sales and general flea markets)
Marx HO was my first train set. When it didn't hold up to my youg hands my folks bought a Lionel set. I returned to HO a few years later....but that's another story.
When I found a photo of that Marx HO set intact under the Christmas tree.....I felt the need to recreate it. I was not worried about the box it came in....although you can find it still....but wanted the same loco and cars my set had.
I was surprised how easy and cheap it was to find ALL the stuff needed. In fact I bought about twice what I had as a kid. So....$30 for the set was not the deal of the century....easy to find on ebay maybe at a lower price.
I am interested in Marx, but just the 3/16/deluxe plastic O gauge. Some people collect anything Marx....I would have walked on with barely a glance. I have owned and sold off HO Marx Hudson sets, DC, powerpack that are collectible and compatible with other HO of the period. I do not think you have missed anything. But old toys is not the only field in which people can pay big bucks for what I think is junk. (I cannot remember tables covered with those at York, and only see those kinds of sets in
yard sales and general flea markets)
Not to nit-pick, or maybe I am nit-picking... The plastic Marx is NOT 3/16." It is bigger than that. The only Marx that is 3/16" is the tinplate stuff that Marx calls "scale."
K-Line made S gauge cars using the old Marx deluxe plastic molds, and it is oversized for S.
S is 3/16".
I have a fairly large collection of HO sets (mostly Tyco and AHM and Athearn) but this Marx set caught my eye about 4 years ago at York.
This is my only Marx set...
Notice that Marx HO pieces almost look like scaled down versions of their O gauge products. Pretty neat for period HO.
Jim McC
I wrote "3/16 SLASH deluxe plastic", which means both and does not mean the
deluxe plastic is the same as 3/16. In "deluxe plastic", in which I include any plastic, and only any plastic, with the tilt fork coupler, which couples with the same coupler on
the 3/16. In other words, if it won't run together, I don't want it. I can't say the
two versions of freight cars look that good running together, but Marx did a lot of
cross-pollinating among engines and cars.
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