AMERICAN FLYER WIDE GAUGE 4080 SERIES PASSENGER CARS
MARX ³₀₁₆″ LITHOGRAPHED FREIGHT CARS
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to these cars others on the market lacked, and a rake of them behind Fly- er’s New Haven 4039 box cab made an impressive six-foot sight. Then there was Marx, known for joy- ful lithographed toy trains. When it in- troduced ³/₁₆″ scale tin printed models in 1941, it became an era of rethinking what O gauge tinplate could be. A.C. Gilbert reduced 1939 American Flyer to die-cast ³/₁₆″ scale after Cleveland Mod- el and Supply Co. introduced a 1937 pa- per-on-wood line to those dimensions, later named S by the NMRA. Not only did Marx create handsome, authentic looking scale cars, but introduced a die- cast 2-4-2 locomotive in a complete break from previous manufacture. There were artfully stamped boxcars, gondolas, tank cars, four-bay hoppers, PFE reefers, flat cars, cattle cars, tank cars and two cabooses with realism far beyond Ives, Dorfan and American Fly- er. Marx liveries were prototypically correct, including car data. What made them special were scale size trucks,
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providing greater realism than any pre- ceding lithographed Ives or Dorfan models. Some in S even converted them with proper scale trucks and couplers. One unusual Marx item must be men-
tioned, a 1950-1954, beautiful, near ¹/₄″ scale, accurately lithographed No. 21 Santa Fe EMD FT, but on six-wheel A-1- A passenger trucks. An anomaly, it was counter to the ³/₁₆″ line. Were there to have been others in this size? The few models here can’t begin to cover this enormously diverse subject, since it includes so many different types. Lithographic artwork wasn’t al- ways real but was fun to see and play with. Hertz wanted toy trains to be more realistic, not necessarily scale. Trying to convince Lionel and Ameri- can Flyer to return to the past didn’t succeed. But Marx ³/₁₆″ scale trains in- troduced a superior new look never again matched in tinplate. It was real- ly art of all kinds, high and low, if we look closely enough beyond the surface to appreciate and enjoy it.
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