Marx Train Right After The War

Great photos, Don. Thanks for posting. Here's the photo of interest:

If you go to the web site the resolution of the photo is excellent.  Would love to have some of those toys now!

Don

Agreed. It's also much larger with the benefit of additional photos.

Thank you for posting,

The pictures are great and the toys are even better , Retiring in four days hope I will have more time for my Army in miniature.

Gary

the train of interest...

looks like 2 rail track so the locomotive would be a clockwork #897 followed by an "Army Supply Train" tender, a (572AA) Anti-Aircraft gun, an oddly 8-wh version of the (552M) "Ordnance Dept." gondola with a full load of Siege Gun ammo*, and what should probably be a dummy searchlight car given the 2-rail track.

the next two cars are the jewels of this consist, though, TWO(!) (572ST) #5 tank flat cars and bringing up the visible rear are two Radio cars.

finding pictures like these are quite valuable to a collector.  take the Ordnance gondola for instance.

i have this car with a full load of these large shells and even though it will hold an extra row, it looks like the original had 27 vs 30 rounds.  but even more important was noticing the (probably) cardboard spacer between the rows of shells.  never seen that before!

thanks for the link.

cheers...gary

great pics, thanks for sharing.

Those Marx army trains would be cool to have reproduced by MTH, but the locos and tenders probably aren't big enough for all the MTH fancy electronic gizmos.

Especially the wind-up army litho 897!  LOL!

well they would just have to make them the old fashioned way....

a little better look at the Marx #897 (windup and electric)...

with the graphic details, my favorite of the three prewar military locomotives.

i'm sure it would take a substantial tooling cost to reproduce this engine today and yes, even coupled to one of the Marx tenders, there is very little spare room inside these small models.

there is a New Marx version of a tinplate Army Supply Train though i never liked the non-coasting motor drives of the New Marx production.

cheers...gary