SHOW US A FAVORITE MARX CAR

My NYC 2071 passenger set!

My favorite, and it is fairly common in the internet auction, where you wil probably see at least one, as well as an ATSF stock car,  in a search, is the "3/16" LNE hopper..

I just wish Marx, after that expensive tooling, with operating hopper doors, etc.,

had made the hopper in a lot more road names than just the one.   The equally popular "3/16" stock car was available in two roadnames, the bright orange ATSF, and brown and less appealing pre-war Pennsylvania.  I am guessing the bright colored ATSF car grabbed the kids' attention, but there were other roads with bright colored stock cars whose lettering I would have liked to see. These three Marx cars were less common in sets, and I can see the hopper being more expensive to produce, but the stock car not so much more although with extra punched sides and different doors, utilizing the boxcar body stamping.  (I could visualize the hopper, with a change in tooling, as a two bay and a 3 bay)

I was hoping the New Marx would produce identical "3/16" cars, WITH different livery

than original, but no luck.  They had tooled up the trucks and couplers, a big investment...but the bodies were smaller...

I love these darker red British Marx coaches and tender. The loco is a Japanese floor toy powered by a Marx 333 motor. The color match was amazing.

Steve

I like my Marx W.E.C.S. 4571 search light car.  It works as well as the Lionel ones.

Note:  The Helicopter is just siting on the car in the picture.  But it sure looks good there!

Charlie

Here's one I'm rather fond of....

R.S. Butler:  Is that an original Louis Marx creation, New Marx creation, or, as often

show up at the Marx meet at York, a personal creation?  Trucks look L. Marx.

Window arrangement seems to provide for use on a very steep incline RR such as

(still?) at Pittsburgh.

 It's a New Marx tool test car.  They used scrap Canadian Pacific litho and used it to test the tool set up before they started stamping out the actual production.  They used the scrap sheet to run similar tests on the tank car, caboose, and high gondola tooling as well. 

OK...what fooled me was the trucks, which look like L. Marx trucks as on 3/16 cars,

and not the New Marx versions, which to my eyes appear a little more angular.

And while I thought CP was New Marx, it is not wildly unusual to find "new" printing

on the outside of L. Marx cars and old, reused sheet metal printing on the inside.

Obviously, New Marx was thrifty with unused printed sheet metal, also.

Louie was thrifty, and controlled costs before there were MBA's doing it.

Here's mine, original and newly acquired.  Only a few trains survived my siblings before I received my first train set.  This little tank has single handedly delivered millions of gallons of oil over the yeas and is still in operation on the layout today.  

James

My favorites in the foreground. 

I like this little blue box car, Marx Boston & Maine 77003.  I had to buy it.  

Something about blue cars, they stand out like the Lionel Giraffe blue stock cars.

Charlie

This 6 inch floodlight car from my Marx "work train" is a favorite. It dates from the 1930's, has a copper plated base and a variation of black floodlights instead of the usual silver. It throws a pretty bright light around..

well, I've always liked the dumptruck - 

but then it's hard to beat ol' WHAMO!

both of these make me smile!

Those Marx dump cars and push station were always an intriguing accessory. There's an Easter Bunny- themed video (not mine) that shows them in action:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAh3rajiMnE&feature=youtu.be

thank you John, what a great Marx video!

kids LOVE that side dump car full of M&M's.

I like my Marx Passenger cars like the 3197 below.  I got a set of three cars several years ago for $10 which was a real deal.  

Lionel's 2400 series cars were much higher price for only one car.  The Marx were my only passenger cars for several years.  Marx cars do not have lighted windows but are lighter in weight and do not draw much wattage.

Charlie

Choo Choo Charlie - I always thought the Marx sheet metal passenger cars were elegant.  Like you, they were my only ones for many years.