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Marx clockwork toy-trains in the garden
Apr 19, 2013
By Peter De Keles
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You don't have to charge a battery or clean track with these.
Title:
Marx clockwork toy-trains in the garden
LSOL.com Rating
Length
2:00
Release Date
04/13/2013
Overview
Just wind and go. If you just like watching trains go round and round without any wiring, charging or butane, this is for you.
They run like clockwork. I guess because they are.
0 gauge wind-up/clockwork Marx toy trains running in the garden. First the New York Central Mercury stream-liner (635) and then the Union Pacific 526 set with an added PRR hopper.
Marx trains
Fun video. Never knew much about them and enjoyed investigating online including ones for sale on ebay.
Phill Lowe - 04/19/2013 - 14:14
roadbed
I use an open grid for the roadbed. Thisway I do not have to deal with leaves, twigs etc. It makes foe a mantinance probl thatum that I do not have to deal
with.
stanley schere - 04/19/2013 - 14:50
wind up trains
Looks like fun other than for when the wind up decides to unwind ..... what part of the railroad does it stop at ??? the worst part to reach , of course .... But other than that, it IS unique.
carl kokes - 04/19/2013 - 16:19
Billerbahn
Ironically, as a young boy I had a German windup train called Billerbahn which I remember setting up in the back garden on its oval of track.
I received a Marx wind-up freight train at age three and a half for Christmas 1949. The Union Pacific streamliner followed, most likely my fourth birthday on July 4th, 1950. Christmas 1951 brought a Lionel 027 electric and the wind-ups were retired. Thanks for the memories!
