Marx Trains (Modern Marx) Award Cars

Dang it, Steve.  Seeing all of these Modern Marx photos is making me want to start collecting them! The last thing I need is another "breed" of train in my collecting "stable"!  

Now those are cool.  My father in law retired from GE I would love to find one of those. 

Rob Shaubach posted:

Dang it, Steve.  Seeing all of these Modern Marx photos is making me want to start collecting them! The last thing I need is another "breed" of train in my collecting "stable"!  

I know the feeling....I keep dragging home the old Marx and have to find room for it, let alone the new stuff.

I like the looks of the old time style cars.  Were there very many variations of that style of car made by New Marx?  Did old Marx ever use that style of car?  I can just imagine a string of those freight cars behind a William Crooks engine.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

I like the looks of the old time style cars.  Were there very many variations of that style of car made by New Marx?  Did old Marx ever use that style of car?  I can just imagine a string of those freight cars behind a William Crooks engine.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

Greg, as I progress with the series you will see some old time style cars. This sheet metal matched the original Wm Crooks cars. This sheet metal as you will see was used on boxcars, passenger cars and cabeese. One of Marx Trains earliest products was a St Paul & Pacific boxcar and caboose to closely match the original Marx coaches. The major difference is the scale type B trucks. Here is the caboose.

Steve

@Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Marx Trains made award/give away cars for GE & Westinghouse for some of their corporate functions. The Westinghouse car is from 1999. The old time style GE car is from 1994 and the modern type car is from 1995.

Steve

Hi Steve,

A fellow Marx collector and good friend recently made a gift to me of an unformed  diecut OT GE boxcar body color sample. And the original note it came with from J Flynn.

Each side of the car had a different printing image? That is cool.