Simple Marx 10005 Question, I Hope

[jwse30]

I finally bought a Marx 10005 (it's been on my want list for about 15 years or so). I've got a silver and red one, and it's an engine, 3 cars, and an observation. The three cars are all Omaha, and the observation is a Squaw Bonnet.

 

My Marx layout is so small  I'll likely just run the engine, one car and the observation. But are there other cars available? A quick search on Google didn't turn up anything, but it's hard to search for what you don't know (Confucius?)

 

Thanks in advance,

 

J White

 

[rtraincollector]

Sounds like a nice set. The best ones I know to answer your question is sir James or wallyworld wally world doesn't frequent the site as much as he use to. But he was basically all Marx and has a large collection from pics I have seen.

[balidas]

I also have a couple of those sets, the red and silver and the green and yellow. I haven't found any cars with names different then what I have and I've been thinking that dry transfers could change that.

[overlandflyer]

the M10005 was available in three basic liveries and there were REA/RPO cars, Los Angeles, Denver & Omaha coaches as well as the Squaw Bonnet which was the only observation available in all three.  the yellow/brown livery also had a rarely seen "Diner", but this car has never shown up in either of the other two paint schemes.

there is a slight variation in the silver/red/blue livery coaches.  i keep forgetting which, but i believe the earlier cars had blue litho only ringing the window frames whereas in the later version the separating window stiles are also blue.

[jwse30]

Thank you for the information. And thank you for pointing out that there was litho on the silver cars. I am fairly sure I wouldn't have noticed a difference until after I bought the wrong one and coupled it up.

 

J White