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Mar 22, 1995 · Linda Ronstadt - The Blue Train
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Nov 22, 2023 · If you're a fan of the classic Marx train set, then you'll love this absolutely stunning custom blue train set! In this video, we unbox and take our first ru...
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Oct 8, 2023 · train Go West 1940 The Marx Brothers. Scott Hettrick. 12.2K subscribers. Subscribed.
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The Marx Brothers Sing & Play (67 Songs from Their Movies) A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's...
- Louis Marx
- Four Eras
- Joy Line
- 6-Inch Tin
- 3/16-Scale Tin
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- What Happened to The Marx Tooling
Any discussion of Marx trains has to include the company founder, Louis Marx. Marx was an accomplished salesman and a good businessman. He started his career working for the toy maker Ferdinand Strauss, but Strauss’ board fired him in 1917. Marx bought the tooling for a couple of obsolete toys from his erstwhile employer, designed new lithography f...
You can divide Marx trains history into about four eras: Joy line, 6-inch tin, 3:16 scale, and plastic. The four eras overlapped somewhat, particularly the 6-inch line, but each line had its period of dominance. That said, many parts remain interchangeable between eras. Marx’s secret was keeping prices low, and one way Marx did that was by reducing...
Girard Model Works of Girard, Penn., produced a line of toy trains it called Joy Line. One of its distributors was Louis Marx, who started reselling Joy Line trains in 1928. In 1934 or 1935, Marx bought out Joy Line entirely and continued its train production. But Marx quickly phased out Joy Line production in favor of its own design, although the ...
Soon after purchasing Joy Line, Marx phased out the Joy Line design. It replaced it with something that reflected the times: a streamlined Commodore Vanderbilt locomotive and slightly larger, heavier cars, about six inches in length with real railroad names on them. The initial line included New York Central tender number 551, Rock Island gondola n...
In late 1941, Marx introduced a line of 3/16-scale tin cars to compete with similar cars from American Flyer, introduced in 1939. Marx also introduced a new diecast locomotive, the 999, to go with it. The war effort halted production of these cars in early 1942. Marx resumed production in 1946, with the same lithography, and continued producing the...
In 1950, Marx introduced a short-lived line of 7-inch cars to compete with a former partner, Unique Art Manufacturing Co of New Jersey. Unique had introduced its own line of cars in 1949, between the Marx 6-inch cars and Lionel in size. Marx introduced these as a way to compete. Unique’s efforts proved unsuccessful. As a result it withdrew its trai...
Marx experimented with a plastic locomotive in 1948, but took a little longer to introduce a full line of plastic cars than its competitors did, introducing its long running plastic line in 1952. To go with them, Marx introduced a number of plastic and diecast locomotives to go with them, including the plastic 400, the die-cast 666, and numerous pl...
Much of Marx’s train tooling eventually ended up at K-Line, where it enjoyed a couple more decades of production. The Marx tooling was also behind the 1980s Rock Island battery-operated toy train set. From K-Line, some of the Marx tooling ended up back in production at old rival Lionel. Two Marx enthusiasts, Jim and Debby Flynn, revived the Marx ti...
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Sep 22, 2017 · WATCH: Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, ‘Blue Train’. By BGS Staff. Sep 22, 2017. Artist: Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver. Hometown: Fordtown, TN. Song: “Blue Train”. Album: A Tribute to John D. Loudermilk. Release Date: September 15, 2017. Label: Vector Recordings.
