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* This is a Marx NYC bay window caboose. #20298 in red there is also a green one same number.
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Posted - February 16 2012 : 8:11:02 PM
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A marx New Haven 3 window caboose. In Mc Ginnis paint.
Marx called thie type of Caboose a " cupola Caboose".
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Posted - February 16 2012 : 9:10:35 PM
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Great stuff guys...I have three Marx pieces...
...hands down my favorite caboose...
...and my newest...
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Posted - February 16 2012 : 9:33:08 PM
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I still want to "kill" you for that Rock Island caboose for my Marx box set, shaygetz 
Or is it a rare one to find?
Anyway here is my Marx set almost complete Except for that RI caboose! grrr lol
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Posted - February 16 2012 : 11:32:41 PM
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It is pretty hard to find...there are several people after it. Everything has its price, this one just has a particularly high one...
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Posted - February 17 2012 : 12:39:41 PM
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post 60
A marx Rock Island small diesel 1962
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 1:37:41 PM
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A pair of New York Central F3As #4000.
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 8:41:37 PM
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Here's a RI caboose in perfect shape that I won on eBay for 99 cents about a year and a half ago. Total was $4.99 with shipping.... not too shabby. It intrigued me at the time because I didn't know they made one this detailed.
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Posted - July 08 2012 : 10:21:37 PM
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quote:Here's a RI caboose in perfect shape that I won on eBay for 99 cents about a year and a half ago. Total was $4.99 with shipping.... not too shabby. It intrigued me at the time because I didn't know they made one this detailed.
Originally posted by NickelPlate759Â -Â July 08 2012Â :Â 8:41:37 PM
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Great find Nelson. I have some Marx rolling stock an an F3. I pick it up at shows when I see a deal.
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Posted - July 15 2012 : 1:25:02 PM
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* I had somewhere a Marx accessory. It was a sanding tower for a steam engine. It was automated. It had 2 fill spouts. One for a left side track, and one for a right side track. It wasn't automatic. there were 2 push buttons with it ,one for each side. You would stop the engine where it spout was even with the sand dome . Press its button and the spout would lower down and stay till you released the button. It was made of black plastic. It also was lighted, having to small light bulbs along side the sand down spouts. Anyone ever see it.
* edit : I got one now. I posted it on August, 16, 2012. Post #77.
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Posted - July 17 2012 : 5:53:45 PM
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Gimmie that caboose, NKP!!
Next person who finds that RI caboose for what NKP paid for it I'll give $10 or moar
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Posted - July 26 2012 : 9:41:04 PM
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You got it, Ben. I'll do an even swap for the boxcab.
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Posted - July 26 2012 : 9:48:25 PM
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quote:You got it, Ben. I'll do an even swap for the boxcab.
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mmm nopes I like the boxcab too much Yeah it grew on me
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Posted - July 28 2012 : 6:37:33 PM
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post 68
Marx Hudson gets coal at the coaling tower.
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Posted - July 30 2012 : 2:37:31 PM
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The Marx F units live on! These are Model Power F2A bodies on a newer chassis
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Posted - July 30 2012 : 5:06:27 PM
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* Model power does it differently. The pilot on the Marx is a part of the drive casting. On MP it is cast with the body.
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Posted - July 30 2012 : 5:32:30 PM
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Your are right, Sure are close to the same.
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Posted - July 30 2012 : 7:02:36 PM
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quick question
What kind of trucks go onto the Marx cabooses? How do they go on there?
Do love what Marx had in HO scale
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Posted - July 31 2012 : 10:28:14 AM
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Today I got from a friend CHarlie a Marx HO operating sanding tower. I wont have a photo for a few days. For when I was over my friends house, I left my camera there. I will see him this saturday at the Greenberg train show at Edison NJ. He said he would bring it there for me.
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Posted - August 12 2012 : 8:09:21 PM
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quote:Your are right, Sure are close to the same.
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John : I to think this Model power F 2 or 3 was made from Marx dies. Just they were modified. The Marx front pilot is a cast on part of the drive frame. On the MP it is cast to the body. The 3 side port hole windows was open on the MP. The horn of the Marx is part of the body casting and a separate detail on the MP.
* What you call a Life like F2A unit is a Model Power F2a. The PRR lettering and number is the Model power lettering. THe stripes, oval PRR symbol on the stripes, the loco number are all the same as the ones placed on the Model power Shark nose, FA, and E7 locos.
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Posted - August 12 2012 : 9:09:49 PM
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quote:quick question
What kind of trucks go onto the Marx cabooses? How do they go on there?
Do love what Marx had in HO scale
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Marx I believe had a metal pin embedded in the base, and the truck has two parallel plastic bars which spread apart and snap over the pin, in the middle. If you need replacements, here's what to do :
Model Power has the molds for the old Marx cars, so once I saw that they were the same when I checked my work caboose cars with EXACT same trucks and mounting style, I had to order some. The part number, if you need any for Marx cars, is FCT-8001, that is 3 pieces - the truck with axles, the horn hook coupler, and coupler mounting arm. $4 each assembly.
There ya go. Replacement trucks available from Model Power.
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Posted - August 13 2012 : 5:36:52 PM
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TopTrain,
Yea, you are right it is a Model Power F2A. I getting old. The Life like, Model power, and mid life Tyco models were all lumped together in my mind. You guys do amazing things with these models.
I've always considered the old Life like F2A's to be a poor model of an F Unit. The nose, windshield and sides are not very accurate. It is funny I bought one last week after I made the posting. It was advertized as a Bachmann FT.
Model Power made a F3A that was a better casting and it had the same drive train. The hole in the front pilot was to big, but was a easy fix.
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Posted - August 16 2012 : 8:08:22 PM
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post 77
The Marx operating sanding tower.
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Posted - September 17 2012 : 5:58:04 PM
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post 78
A Marx F3a Rock Island.
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Posted - September 17 2012 : 9:08:17 PM
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I have an A-B set of the Rock Island F3 locos.
Both unpowered.
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 3:14:23 PM
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post 80
A Car I got today at the Wayne train show.
The New York Central Pacemaker box car. White lettering
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 5:50:30 PM
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quote:Marx Hudson gets coal at the colling tower.
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That tender looks like mine Does it have a plug to connect to the loco from the tender?
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 6:03:07 PM
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 Is this a Marx unit by any chance? Runs pretty good..
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 6:43:44 PM
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Yes Buss, Your tender is a Hudson tender.
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Posted - September 30 2012 : 7:30:16 PM
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Thanx
I thought so but wasn't sure...I gave it a squirt of channel cleaner and it runs pretty good
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Posted - October 17 2012 : 7:29:51 PM
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post 85
A Car I got at the New Hope train show.
The New York Central Pacemaker box car. black lettering.
* The same car with white lettering is on post 80.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 4:56:10 PM
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post 86
I am doing the ones I missed.
Depressed center metal flat car with generatop.
Westinghouse
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 5:07:50 PM
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Here is my marx beer cars. It takes two to cary one.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 5:10:29 PM
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Marx caboose. NYC 3 window with antanna.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 5:12:07 PM
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Marx caboose. New Haven Bay window.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 5:22:22 PM
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Marx operating log dump car.
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post 91
Mark 0-4-0 switcher with slope back tender.
Santa Fe.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 5:27:53 PM
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Marx 0-4-0-tanker NYC
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 5:32:55 PM
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Marx 0-4-0 tanker, New Haven.
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Posted - December 17 2012 : 5:34:32 PM
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A marx flat car with 2 clips to hold loads. Graders, cars, trucks ?
for 2 bull dozers.
LHCH 6130.
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Posted - January 09 2013 : 5:54:04 PM
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My New, New Haven train set. Loco 2 cars and a caboose with track, power suply, and tressel set.
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Posted - April 14 2013 : 10:39:16 AM
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real neat NH set there, toptrain
I'd not mind finding JUST the auto carrier sans cars
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Posted - April 14 2013 : 11:00:57 AM
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post 97
This Marx, Sears set #9904 I got yesterday. I was surprised when I seen which set it was.
frank
Not the best box in the world.
Here is ther set number.
Here is the boat car. It is a sought after car. Hard to find.
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Posted - April 14 2013 : 11:25:08 AM
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here is the rocket fuel tank car I have
note the USAF logo is upside down
Here is the other one I have 
Anyone have a bottom for it?
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Posted - April 15 2013 : 10:56:22 AM
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post 99
Marx Sears set 9940. New Haven freight.
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Posted - April 15 2013 : 10:13:31 PM
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OOOOO!! Awesome! Does it run good, toptrain?
The way you have the caboose hooked on always did look odd to me
BUT I know they did run them that way
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Posted - April 28 2013 : 2:09:31 PM
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Here is my MARX water tower. Not much else to say about it.
Bus, model power has i think all the dies of marx. No reason they shouldn't make just about everything. I would like to see the rocket car and the Boat remade. so from now on every time a marx anything is posted you can come up with your cheesy comeback that Model power makes it.
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Posted - July 08 2013 : 2:01:06 PM
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*Another picture of the Marx sanding tower.
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Posted - September 27 2013 : 6:23:47 PM
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quote:post 41
A very hard to find one of a kind, The only box car with ribed sides, and seprate ladders. This car came only in a battery powered set.
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It's not the only one with ribbed sides and ladders:
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Posted - September 27 2013 : 6:37:11 PM
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quote:Marx caboose. New Haven Bay window.
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My search is for the black New Haven bay window caboose. I had won one on ebay a few years back. It went for an amout that I couldn't afford. When I entered my bid, I missed the decimal point in my bid so bid $7500 instead of $75.00.
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