I want to thank you for all the great Marx videos! I received my first Marx set #32250 on Christmas day in 1961 and I still have it in the original box and complete. My father purchased it a WT Grant On Long Island. Now just trying to add additional rolling stock and accessories. I hope to pass it to a grandchild someday! I have a question for you. Do you know of anyone that sells the metal tab logos that go on the sides of the Marx 5545 CB & Q Trailers? I am looking for the "New York Central" logos. I would even take a close up photo of one so I could just print it out and affix it to my trailers. Any help is appreciated.

Wow Dave. Those tank cars are in great condition. Really nice.

I see your layout also has 12 inch to a foot gauge trains. Nice post.

What time you caught pnwr?

Nice consist to start your day with.

Awesome Railroad Crossing signals!

Nice!! 🙂☕👍

For a bunch of junk you did well with your repairs !!!

I have a Santa Fe E7 set I inherited from my aunt, it's the early version with the single reduction motor. I was able to get it running again with just a bit of oil on the gears and bearings after it sat in a basement for god knows how long, evidence points to it having been wet at some point. It never fails to impress me how tough these old trains are! At some point I might find a beater E7 to repaint, I think maybe Erie Lackawanna or even early Amtrak would be pretty neat... Excellent video as always! You collection never fails to impress!

What a fantastic collection of Marx E7’s you have! Very impressive to say the least. The different variations Marx had was a lot more than I ever knew. Great stuff. It’s nice to see Marx trains like your getting a great spotlight. Excellent video. I look forward to more videos like this from you. Tom

I have my father's 262 that my grandfather got him. I took it to a certified licensed Lionel Tech, who was amazed at what great shape it was in. It still had the original wiring, which he had to replace. I love that old ozone smell...

I still need to find a powered Western Pacific to go with the dummy A unit I have. My powered New Haven has a traction tire. Awesome showcase video!

@daveclarklumber Okay, I am BLOWN AWAY by how closely this engine resembles the tinplate engine from the end of the Polar Express! Okay, the trailing truck, lack of skirting under the cab, copper trim, more complex connecting rods, American Flyer plaque, and tender aren't accurate to the Polar Express toy train, but the silhouette is the closest match I've ever seen! Make a few modifications, polish or refinish it until it shines like chrome, and find it a suitable tender and train, and you'd have a pretty solid representation of a fictional toy train I've been longing for since childhood! Now I'm curious if there's a tender that would be almost as good a match for the tinplate Polar Express (And for the size of the American Flyer 401, of course). I would have to settle on the coaches, of course, as there just wouldn't be a match for the one-of-a-kind observation car, and I would probably not be able to modify an existing one with the same types of materials used on the base model.

Great paint schemes and variety from Marx. Thanks for showing them.

This was very impressive. Love all of the Marx E7’s. I have the Santa Fe AA with the early really low cow cowcatcher missing a coupler that I still haven’t been able to find anywhere. It’s the coupler for the dummy unit with the step on it. My favorite is your Penn Central’s. They are gorgeous and I hope that one day I can find them. Your whole series on Marx was fantastic and thank you for sharing. Frank

Wow! great assortment of E-7's and deluxe plastic rolling stock. Like the way your shelves slide to increase your capacity.

Hello.. I enjoy your videos. I started collecting Marx 8 months ago after running my little 490 loco set I received for Christmas in 1970 for the first time in over 50 years. Now I have more Marx trains than I can count..LOL. I recently acquired set #44220, a 1953 Happy Time set with NYC E7's and tin cars. The markings on these appear to be gray or silverish instead of the usual white. Have you seen this before on early sets? The color is uniform, so it doesn't seem like tarnish or dirt... Thanks for all the knowledge you share!

My favorite Thomas and Friends episode involved James saying "Shiny and clean!" Well, it was up there with my favorites. James and the Queen of Sodor. My dad says I always loved the scene where the funnel of the barge on the flatbed wiped out a sewage pipe above the track and James somehow doesn't get covered in sludge. Now I crack a smile every time I hear him cheer "Shiny and clean! Shiny and clean!" at the end of that scene. The actor for the American dub just makes James sound so gleeful and childlike in that moment... how could anyone not smile at that moment?

@daveclarklumber I like this model better than Lionel's Flying Yankee. No ugly grey cab, and lots of nice little details, such as the handrails and the intricately complex cab hood. The size comparison to the Marx Tales of Wells Fargo set is also fun, as that was another set on my dream wishlist, and it would be fun to run them on different loops of a layout, contrasting them like something from a World's Fair Exhibition or a Lionel advertisement. I'm curious if the Burlington Zephyr would look as good under a Christmas tree as the Flying Yankee, though. Would the metallic finish of this model reflect Christmas lights as pleasantly as the chrome finish on the Flying Yankee? If not, I suppose I could always get chrome passenger cars for my Santa Fe F3's some day. (Funny, I own only a handful of O gauge trains, and yet one of the most desired toy trains of all is already in their midst. Speaking of wish lists and Christmas. That ABA set may look awkward on O-27 curves, but I'm glad I own it.)

Thanks for bringing up the horn direction issue, it`s a Delamore. My Marx Santa Fe #21 horns were missing, so I painted them on in opposite directions. I felt it matched the litho. and pleased me.

Great youtube displaying, comparing and running your E-7 Marx trains. I have a few of them single powered units except the Santa Fe which I have two powered units dummy and B unit. One of my Santa Fe has a crack in front nose. Old plastic I suppose can be prone to cracking with age and normal were and tear. I look forward to seeing more of your Marx and Lionel collections thank you

Though i don't model in ''O'' gauge that's still a very impressive collection.

Just restored one of these locomotives. Amazing looking loco and a great runner. Didnt have its original tender so I had to make it one.

I was looking forward to seeing the E7's pulling a wider variety of rolling stock. How do they look with the 3/16 scale tinplate C truck freight cars? Interesting idea, pairing them with the Lionel O-27 coaches. Now I kind of want to see the green and yellow Western Pacific ones pulling the green Lionel Lines coaches, the ones famously paired with the turbine.

Great collection of the Marx E7's. I have all of them with the exception of the silver Western Pacific and the Penn Centrals in ABA sets. I'm drooling over your green Western Pacific bay window caboose. I'm still on the lookout for one. I found an unmarked Marx solid green cupola caboose that I plan to modify to a Western Pacific but I'm concerned it might devalue it. I have never seen another one like it. It's molded in the Western Pacific green color without any markings. The E7's are great runners and molded in the best colorful paint schemes for each road. They all stand out to me, each in their own unique way. I was really drawn to each roads paint scheme the first time I seen one. The NYC sets still puts a smile on my face every time I run them because of the paint scheme. It's such a classy look, especially pulling passenger cars.

Excellent video ---- Magnificent collection! Thank you for sharing the Art of Marx Trains videos. I watch them over and over.

Great overview of the units! The turquoise penn central with the extra white markings is a looker.

great collection i have the rock island aba a bunch of switchers and a bunch of steamers plus any old lionel i can find hey in old videos i see at one time had g scale why did you get out of it

The E7's are my favorite Marx items, I have an A-B-A Santa Fe set, the lead unit has the longer pilot, running on my Lionel Post War layout, with the Lionel O-27 passenger cars, as you noted they are a nice size match.

Moat incredible collection Dave! Kool and thank you! Happy Railroading

Magnificent !😊

She be a bit high in the belfry, but me likem anyhow.

As usual, I`m speechless.

Obviously, this was the Western Pacific segment of the California Zephyr!

@daveclarklumber I saw you running one of the 3/16 O American Flyer Atlantics with Marx rolling stock, which is making me consider possibly getting an American Flyer O gauge engine to pull Marx’s scale 3/16 O rolling stock instead of buying a Marx 333 or 666. Which of these engines would you say are the strongest? I’m curious to know how many cars (scale Marx in particular, but any information would be helpful) the Royal Blue could pull (And I’m still curious why you think the Atlantic is overrated).

Really enjoyed the layout... One can tell of a person that put himself into the hobby, and it shows. I have a pair of New York Central F3s that are my favorite pair of locos. The long trailer train was cool.

I just ordered this same set on eBay. Should come early this coming week!

Good Night ; overwhelming.

@daveclarklumber Now that I've seen the video with your D truck rolling stock, each of your videos I see with another box car or cattle car variant reminds me of how much I want to see a video with all your 3/16 C truck rolling stock. I like the C trucks more and would probably just pair the larger E7 with the short (but still eight-wheel) Lionel O-27 freight cars like the Wheaties boxcar and Nickel Plate Road gondola. I still haven't figured out what my dream engine for pulling a string of C truck freight cars would be. Do the Marx lithographed steam engines suite them as well as stuff like the 333 or American Flyer engines?

@daveclarklumber That's a nice adapter piece! Marx seems especially well-suited for double-heading because of how the engines all used one of a handful of (interchangeable) motors. How long of a train could you comfortably pull with a double-header? The 8351 is a beautiful and whimsical engine and was one of the things that got me researching Marx trains. Those tinplate Marx steam engines are the closest thing to the tinplate engine from the end of the Polar Express, especially when they have more chrome finish like the Santa Fe engine.

@daveclarklumber What radius curve do the AMT passenger cars navigate? Nice coaches! They feel a bit low behind the F3's, but the aluminum finish, drumhead, road name and authentic postwar origins have me interested in possibly buying them some day. Until then, my F3's will just pull postwar era freight cars like they did until KMT challenged Lionel to give them something more prototypical to pull (I need an SP type caboose that isn't an MPC C&O one, though).

Get some grease and oil on that shay though! Wooooo noisy!!

the trouble with ives is replacement parts...without cannibalization you're dead in the water

@daveclarklumber Could you please do a video like this for all your c truck Marx rolling stock, too?

I love how the train just kept getting longer each time it went by, like how the Polar Express fluctuates in length. I saw this passenger set on a table near the bathrooms at Trainfest in 2022. It shared space with a Lionel Canadian Pacific passenger set and other postwar era trains from mostly Lionel. The guy who ran the table was giving general advice on collecting postwar era trains, and he had a friend who was giving similar advice about prewar era trains who had a similar table for such trains next to his.

Me: "Wait, why did American Flyer copy Lionel's cowboy shootout cattle car?" @daveclarklumber: "Actually, I copied Lionel's cowboy shootout cattle car." Also, I suppose you could repaint any extra Marx St. Paul and Pacific coaches as Great Northern green coaches if you wanted to, for some added variety? It be something different and would represent a different stage of the William Crooks' life, but the lithography might be hard to replicate afterwards.

@daveclarklumber What were those European coaches from 7:19? Also, I clicked on this video wondering "how many 44 tonners Marx made," and find out the "44 tonner" from the thumbnail was custom! A beautiful present indeed.

Anyone have a guess what the engine's basis is? My first impression was a Stannier Black 5 (5MT), an London, Midland and Scottish 4-6-0 mixed traffic engine, based on the profile (The running boards especially made me think of one), but the engine on the box artwork looks vaguely LNERish.

Beautiful set

@daveclarklumber I discovered your KZbin channel this morning, and I've been enjoying your Marx videos so far. I am more familiar with Lionel and American Flyer (Among the unrestrained variety of trains in our household, my dad has a small collection of mostly Postwar and MPC Lionel (With one prewar set), and I own the Lionel Santa Fe FE ABA consist and an S scale American Flyer Hudson set), and the only way I know about Marx was the video Toy Trains and Christmas by Tom McComas and Joseph Stachler, but I love the Pennsylvania 8351 with the spotlight and thought I would do some more research. (Hopefully this doesn't turn into a dangerous obsession... the committee is out on the definition of "dangerous"...) A JAPANESE knockoff! Now THAT'S not something I've seen before! It would be fun to see you make a second primer red Shell tanker and spray it with some sort of glossy finish to match the metallic finish of the originals. Also, did the Turtle Creek Central decals actually come in the magazine itself, or was there a mail-order card or something? How would I go about finding them myself if I was interested?