Vintage S kit car - history?

Mid Gage, perhaps?

Mark in Oregon

The PFE car is a tin plate 3/16 inch Marx. The Western Pacific looks like scratch or kit built using printed cardboard, wood, or tinplate sides with Marx 3/16 inch trucks and couplers.   These are O gauge.

PHM

OOPS!!  Sorry Ace. Should have read your post more carefully.  Looks like  you already had the info I gave you.

PHM

Strummer is correct.  Midgage it is.  Found this in my collection.

PHM

Checking the NASG website of the older manufactures, the closest I could come by is Cleveland (C-D Models.)

The car above is also at the mercy of the builder's abilities, and he may have just used the sides or built up a kit.  The car's construction comes close, but not exact to the one pictured on the NASG site, which was built by a modeler that super-detailed his equipment.

Rusty

Thanks guys, the cardstock sides by Midgage are a match! A quick Google tells me Midgage was in production in the late 1940's but dunno how long they lasted? I found this pic previously posted by Strummer showing a vintage car kit with Midgage cardstock sides.