The Great Train Expo was in town this past weekend. While taking a break from
running trains with the club, I managed to add to my clockwork collection. Picked up two Hornby sets, a 1930-31 Ives set.
Steve
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Steve,
How may feet of track will one of these clockwork engines typically travel before it needs to be rewound?
Bob
Steve,
Great little Clock works train, nice pick up!
PCRR/Dave
Steve,
How may feet of track will one of these clockwork engines typically travel before it needs to be rewound?
Bob
I have three beatufil clockwork Marx steam locos. Not sure of two, but one is definatley very pre-war, my father's set he got around '35 or '36, as a Birthday gift when he was a kid.
I've cleaned, adjusted and tried to restore them as much as possible, bought six more incomplete locos on e-bay, cleaned heir drives up and used best wind up drives of the lot. The best I can do is about 130-140 feet (just once around the largest loop on my layout) if the loco is running with just itself - not even a tender, or only about 80-90 feet if pulling its tender, twotwo-axle tinplate cars that came with it, and a caboose.
Lee, how about some pictures? I always like to see Marx clockworks! 
Steve, you had a REALLY good day - those are some fantastic sets. 
nice find Steve
Thank guys. Both Hornby outfits got quite a bit of run time on the layout at work, but I have not tried the Ives set. It is missing one governor shoe and I assume a spring. I will give it a try in a few days and hope it does not take off too fast.
Steve
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