03-24-2009, 08:15 AM
post 5
The Marx Hudson
This is really a toy train. Every hobby started with toys. Model railroading had this locomotive appear at the right time. Marx made this engine well, but kept it a toy. It has detail without having detail. To a young eye it was really something, a big engine a Hudson. It had substance, a die cast boiler, and frame. It was tuff. What is needed for child’s play, it lasted. The loco has metal wheels on its right side and plastic wheels on its left. Electrical pickup for the left track was thro the tender. The metal wheels under the tender were in what is a EMD Bloomberg diesel truck, the kind you see under a GP7 not a steam engine tender. This is a surprisingly good running engine. It came with a few other toys added. It had a working head light and a smoke unit. It puffed smoke thro the use of a piston pumping air thro the smoke chamber, smoke that would fill a train room. It even has a chug to it. I do enjoy to this day running this engine.
frank
The Marx Hudson
This is really a toy train. Every hobby started with toys. Model railroading had this locomotive appear at the right time. Marx made this engine well, but kept it a toy. It has detail without having detail. To a young eye it was really something, a big engine a Hudson. It had substance, a die cast boiler, and frame. It was tuff. What is needed for child’s play, it lasted. The loco has metal wheels on its right side and plastic wheels on its left. Electrical pickup for the left track was thro the tender. The metal wheels under the tender were in what is a EMD Bloomberg diesel truck, the kind you see under a GP7 not a steam engine tender. This is a surprisingly good running engine. It came with a few other toys added. It had a working head light and a smoke unit. It puffed smoke thro the use of a piston pumping air thro the smoke chamber, smoke that would fill a train room. It even has a chug to it. I do enjoy to this day running this engine.
frank
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