Glad my work paid off for you! 🤣 I have a string of those scissor type couplers and sometimes I use a NYC tender and the Canadian Pacific as a fuel/water tender.
I like to tinker too. I have CV shell so I just got a Marx double reduction motor with a smoker. It smokes up the place and can pull early lighted Lionel passenger cars. I stick a prewar latch coupler tender behind it and 3 cars. It certainly could pull more. Smoke looks cool coming out of the Commodore.
I've got 2 Marx sets. A well played with and rusty M10000 and a SP set from the 50's. Aside from the couplers on the SP set, the single reduction "fat wheel" motors on both can be a bit annoying.
Marx guy here, Super Marx Train Line Up, and the trolley promises to be a looker. Check out Dave Clark Lumber's, "The Art of Marx Trains", he`s the Authority. I believe you`re thinking of the MERCURY as the other Marx Loco.
Yes--I did all the work on the shorties ---some are scratch built, some are kit-bashed---I have more up on the shelf--the mine engine pulling it is scratch built using an Alco 0 gauge power unit I converted to std gauge.
Steven...you have the neatest collections. I wish we were neighbors so I could join you on running them. 😄👍
Glad my work paid off for you! 🤣 I have a string of those scissor type couplers and sometimes I use a NYC tender and the Canadian Pacific as a fuel/water tender.
I like to tinker too. I have CV shell so I just got a Marx double reduction motor with a smoker. It smokes up the place and can pull early lighted Lionel passenger cars. I stick a prewar latch coupler tender behind it and 3 cars. It certainly could pull more. Smoke looks cool coming out of the Commodore.
I've got 2 Marx sets. A well played with and rusty M10000 and a SP set from the 50's. Aside from the couplers on the SP set, the single reduction "fat wheel" motors on both can be a bit annoying.
Marx guy here, Super Marx Train Line Up, and the trolley promises to be a looker. Check out Dave Clark Lumber's, "The Art of Marx Trains", he`s the Authority. I believe you`re thinking of the MERCURY as the other Marx Loco.
That prewar Commodore runs strong. Like your chopped standard gauge set, did you do all the surgery???
Yes--I did all the work on the shorties ---some are scratch built, some are kit-bashed---I have more up on the shelf--the mine engine pulling it is scratch built using an Alco 0 gauge power unit I converted to std gauge.