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Marx train sizes

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:00:21 +0000

Over the years, Marx made electric and clockwork trains in no fewer than seven sizes and two gauges. Depending on how you count Marx train sizes, you can say it was more than that. Here’s an overview of what they

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Marx vs. Lionel

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 12:00:42 +0000

In the 1950s, Marx and Lionel took turns being the biggest toy company in the world, largely riding on the popularity of O gauge trains. Neither company particularly liked the other, but both owed some degree of their success to

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Model train won’t move? Here’s the fix

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 12:00:24 +0000

A common problem with HO, N, and other scales of electric train that run on DC power is that when you put them on the track, they light up but don’t move and instead make a weird noise. If your

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Replacing old Lionel DC transformers

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:36:59 +0000

For a while in the 1970s and 1980s, Lionel used DC power in its least expensive O27 electric train sets. They stopped this practice in the mid 1980s, but there are still plenty of those sets kicking around in basements

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