Joe90
08-27-2010, 06:08 PM
My second post!
As I said in my first post, I am trying to hunt down a Marx train set from the late 1950's or early 1960's. It was a pretty basic train set that came with a steam locomotive (no light or smoke) and litho'd cars. I remember a yellow hopper, a black tanker, a red caboose and a coal car (black, of course). I can't remember what colour the box car was. Blue? Brown? What was cool about it was that it had working street lamps, telephone poles, pressed paper trestles, and a billboard. I think the billboard had a Coke ad on it.
I don't remember a station, but it's possible that there was one. The set also came with a green sheet of plywood. Was that Dad's doing or did they come complete like that?
I was pretty young and a I may need some help jogging my memory. I'm a GI Joe collector and there have been lots of reprints of catalogs, etc for that hobby. Any reprint Marx train catalogs?
Can anybody recommend a comprehensive book on Marx trains?
As I said in my first post, I am trying to hunt down a Marx train set from the late 1950's or early 1960's. It was a pretty basic train set that came with a steam locomotive (no light or smoke) and litho'd cars. I remember a yellow hopper, a black tanker, a red caboose and a coal car (black, of course). I can't remember what colour the box car was. Blue? Brown? What was cool about it was that it had working street lamps, telephone poles, pressed paper trestles, and a billboard. I think the billboard had a Coke ad on it.
I don't remember a station, but it's possible that there was one. The set also came with a green sheet of plywood. Was that Dad's doing or did they come complete like that?
I was pretty young and a I may need some help jogging my memory. I'm a GI Joe collector and there have been lots of reprints of catalogs, etc for that hobby. Any reprint Marx train catalogs?
Can anybody recommend a comprehensive book on Marx trains?