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Date: 02/16/17 21:51
Model train identification needed
Author: markloos

Hi guys.  A friend dropped this stuff off to me and asked if I could identify it and if it was worth anything.   Waddyathink??    (more photos available if needed)
Mark  <><



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Date: 02/16/17 23:07
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: ATSF100WEST

Marx

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

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Date: 02/17/17 05:15
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: santafedan

I have most of that same set.

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Date: 02/17/17 07:41
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: FiveChime

Neat!  As more of the older people who grew up with this stuff are passing on, there seems to be less interst and value in vintage Marx, Lionel, and American Flyer.

Regards, Jim Evans

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Date: 02/17/17 07:49
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: Chooch

LIONEL track, Marx trains, Marx transformer and looks like some Erector Set miscellaneous hardware. Value in as is condition, less than $100.00.

Jim
Hatboro, PA

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Date: 02/17/17 09:29
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: HB90MACH

There is no " less interest" there is a rapidly growing interest in these old sets. Lionel has been reproducing them . Values are going.up fast.

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Date: 02/17/17 14:02
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: jo-tower

That is MARX track.
CJV in Illinois

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Date: 02/17/17 14:08
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: JimBaker

Marx trains need MARX switches as the Geared driver is the same diameter as the flange.
Lionel switches will not pass Marx without climbing the frog or guaed rails.

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

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Date: 02/17/17 14:15
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: CPR_4000

Looks like 2-rail track?

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Date: 02/17/17 14:27
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: markloos

It's all 3 rail track.  mark  <><

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Date: 02/17/17 17:40
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: algoma11

The parts look like Mecanno!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

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Date: 02/18/17 10:44
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: Westbound

A Marx train set (not including the unrelated toy parts) like this one sold for $18.97 retail around 1950. Today, out west at a swap meet it would be offered at about $30 and would likely sell for less, based on its condition.

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Date: 02/21/17 10:37
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: PatternOfFailure

HB90MACH Wrote:
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> There is no " less interest" there is a rapidly
> growing interest in these old sets. Lionel has
> been reproducing them . Values are going.up
> fast.

I'd like to see some evidence of that.

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Date: 02/21/17 18:23
Re: Model train identification needed
Author: markloos

OK guys.  I put it on ebay starting at one penny.   I'll report back here in about a week with the results.  Cheers!  Mark  <><

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