Motor of the Week - Week 2 - Please help identify!

That is a postwar Marx motor that powers almost all of the steam engines with the exception of the Canadian Pacific types and the diecast 999. You also would not find this motor in the diecast 666 or the plastic 1666.

This motor will power all of the sheet metal postwar steamers with the exceptions noted above.

So does that make it motor AET 3085?

I do not know what AET 3085 means. Could you elaborate, please? Is there a Marx book that identifies motors?

The sheet does not define the gearing. Many of these engines could have come with the motor in the post, or a DR motor. Lacking other info, if I were making a guess, AET 3085 is correct.

Steve

HCsader73,

that particular motor is exact one that is in 3 of our marx commodore vanderbilts engines

Several of our marx 999 engines are very similar but front body mounting bracket is a little different.

So my guess is marx commodore vanderbilt.

Dieseler posted:

HCsader73,

that particular motor is exact one that is in 3 of our marx commodore vanderbilts engines

Several of our marx 999 engines are very similar but front body mounting bracket is a little different.

So my guess is marx commodore vanderbilt.

Thanks, Dieseler!

QUESTION: Did all  the Commodore Vanderbilts have a manual reverse lever on top? I do not see any provision on this motor for manual reverse.

You gentlemen are amazing!

I looked at the Marx CP motors and they have a different type of brush plate. So the collective wisdom of an AET-3085 is the favorite, unless Commodore V's were made without reversing levers, in which case Dieseler becomes the front runner.

HCSader73 posted:

You gentlemen are amazing!

I looked at the Marx CP motors and they have a different type of brush plate. So the collective wisdom of an AET-3085 is the favorite, unless Commodore V's were made without reversing levers, in which case Dieseler becomes the front runner.

 

Only the earliest CV's had the reverse lever, so most did not.

Steve

What was the Louis Marx & Co designation for the Commodore Vanderbilt motor? AET-3085?  The Certificate of Awesomeness hangs in the balance!

Given the collective wisdom and knowledge brought to bear on this motor inquiry, decency and justice require that the following Certificates of Awesomeness be issued:

Congratulations, gentlemen!

Thanks last time i won anything was a goldfish in a bowl at the grade school funfair long ago.