Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

  Really cool.  MARX trains are fun and relatively inexpensive.
I'm really fond of the 8-wheel 6"cars.  A lot of bang for the
buck from, at the time, one of the biggest toymakers in the
world.

  Congrats on the rebuild.  I never had to take an engine to
pieces to get it to run properly, but you did it well.

  And, please, for others reading this, do not sand the tracks
unless they are so bad they will not get the electricity to
the engine.  You will remove any nickel plating that has survived.
Try using scotch pads and a good tarnish solvent. It is next
to impossible (never successfully by me) to get an old tarnished
track to look like new - not worth the effort.  You just have to
live with the discolorations.

  You can find new old-stock track - maybe.  I locked up 2 cartons
of NOS 'O-27' track years ago, but missed on a carton of 'O-34' later
when I hesitated.  I don't remember why.  Brain dead.

  AND THEN CAME STEAM ENGINES!  YaY!  My first was a MARX J-5322 with
a rotted boiler.  A new boiler (lower 3/4's) later and it runs like
a top.  Check it out.



Have fun,
MARXMAN 4 EVER