More Cheapy Marx

Tell you what - I've got a Marx 3-dome Cities Service tanker that I'l repaint and letter

for "milk" and let go for a measly $250 - one tenth the price of the car you mentioned.

Custom painted; I'll even number it if necessary ("#1 of 1" - super rare).

Marxism can be a hard path in this social climate. Ever upward.

How about adding a picture of Ralph, our Forum mascot? Super duper rare!

Perhaps Ralph will permit Marty to autograph it. That should add at least three figures ($1.50) to its value.

Not so fast! A NYC branch line, the Jersey Shore & Pine Creek, ran through the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania and interchanged with the Reading at Newberry Junction, west of Williamsport. The right-of-way is a rail trail now. Williamsport was a lumber capital, right up there with Cass, and that attracted the NYC.

An even less likely NYC branch extended to Charleston, WV, and served the Gravely Motor Plow & Cultivator Company at Dunbar. An old b&w photo shows a NYC boxcar being loaded with Gravely tractors there.

It's strange to think of The Water Level Route and the road of The Great Steel Fleet (including the 20th CENTURY) meandering through mountains and valleys of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but such was the case.

I also like to think that Louis Marx recognized a first-rate caboose when he saw one, and he decided to grace sets tied to other roads with its presence.