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Yes I have found this loco to be a very good running engine. Also as noted it makes alot of smoke. Enough to make you stop running it.
* Some how Model Power wound up with the Marx dies. You see they have released many of the freight cars ,and a few of the engines. The Marx 0-4-0 steamer has been out with a new drive without the small switching tender. The other 0-4-0 old time steamer as was the one made for the Green Giant set .
* Also the little O-B-0 diesel. I purchased the O-B-O in Pennsy tuscan red paint when first released and found it to be a weak engine. Only one axel was powered. frank
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Posted - September 15 2008 : 12:30:09 PM
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I picked one of these up as a basket case earlier this year. Amazingly it was all there and I was able to get it to run.
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Posted - September 15 2008 : 10:03:23 PM
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I have one also,really noisy when running but smokes like a champ!
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Posted - September 15 2008 : 10:53:27 PM
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That's just too cool.
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Posted - September 16 2008 : 07:52:28 AM
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I've long wondered if American Flyer made these Hudsons for Marx, or if Marx just copied the Flyer HO Hudson. The tender is stubbier, and the drivers look like Bakelite, but the smoke and chug unit is the same piston type.
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Posted - September 16 2008 : 12:42:02 PM
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[quote]I've long wondered if American Flyer made these Hudsons for Marx, or if Marx just copied the Flyer HO Hudson. The tender is stubbier, and the drivers look like Bakelite, but the smoke and chug unit is the same piston type. [quote]
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This is Marx made and very different trom American Flyer Gilbert
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Posted - December 15 2008 : 02:07:49 AM
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You know when you have a genuine Marx Hudson,check out the EMD Blomberg diesel trucks on the tender.
Also the HO passenger cars have the same Blombergs too.
Absolutely hilarious.Gotta love Marx.
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Posted - July 06 2009 : 8:56:28 PM
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| I have one of these locomotives as well and it still runs as well as it still puts out smoke.
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Posted - November 15 2009 : 5:45:40 PM
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Does it actually puff out with each rev. or does the smoke just pour out? What size of curves can it handle? Run good enough to run in circles? I own alot of marx in 0-27, not HO though.
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Posted - November 15 2009 : 7:15:28 PM
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RJ the marx hudson has a piston actuated smoke unit. It pumps about twice a revolution of the drivers. And it makes alot of smoke.
frank
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Posted - November 15 2009 : 7:34:03 PM
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Awesome. I passed on a Marx set at an antique store a couple months ago because I was short on cash. Went back today and....gone.
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Posted - November 15 2009 : 8:05:59 PM
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Hi Justin. The Marx engine is similar to the American flyer engine. It has a piston and cylinder that pushs air pass the smoke element, so it puffs out the stack. Carl
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Posted - February 10 2010 : 2:23:27 PM
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Thanks for the picture, Carl. As I suspected, it was an AF knockoff. Even the mounting arm for the trailing truck looks the same.
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Posted - March 30 2010 : 8:27:15 PM
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Tri Ang in Great Britten did the same thing.
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Posted - March 30 2010 : 8:54:06 PM
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just for you frank
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Posted - March 31 2010 : 09:48:08 AM
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Ken ; I have this Pacific with smoke by triang.
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Posted - March 31 2010 : 09:50:38 AM
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| nice loco frank,that suethe smoke system was worldwide ken
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Posted - May 17 2010 : 10:12:17 AM
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Hudsons at Frankford
This stripped one has a light and smoke
The all black one has just smoke. No light. also I changed the tender trucks to remove the diesel tender look.
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Posted - May 24 2010 : 01:12:35 AM
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I found this one by Rivarossi in a AHM box
got it for $20 needs motor has the parts list too
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Posted - May 24 2010 : 09:06:08 AM
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quote:I found this one by Rivarossi in a AHM box
got it for $20 needs motor has the parts list too
Originally posted by microbusss - May 24 2010 : 01:12:35 AM
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It was made for AHM by Rivarossi. As to the motor you should check your parts list with what you have and what you need. The information sites like HO seeker, at the bottom of the forum section should help you.
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