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Marx 0-4-4-0 Hiawatha

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Marx 0-4-4-0 Hiawatha
Posted by MadMarx on Sunday, April 15, 2007 9:45 AM

Oh, man. I just ran across a pic of one of these. Just beautiful! Never knew they existed. Now I know what I'll be doing in my spare time....    

 

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Posted by pbjwilson on Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:13 AM
Thats great. I've seen some nice Hafner trains that people have put Marx running gear in. The imagination is the limit.
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Posted by cnw1995 on Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:48 PM
This isn't originally by Marx, right? Someone took two Marx mechanisms and created this wonderful work of art?

Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.

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Posted by MadMarx on Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:04 PM

In all honesty, I hope they are out there somewhere. If it has been modified to this, hats off to the creator...

 

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Posted by Dave Farquhar on Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:53 PM
That's a custom job, made from two Commodore Vanderbilt bodies and mechanisms. I forget who made it, but I've seen other pictures of it. Truly nice work, and a nice could-have-been.
Dave Farquhar http://dfarq.homeip.net

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