Wayne and Alice Beachy wrote: >I have often heard that much Marx stuff is 1/64th scale. I bought a Marx plastic >tender at a train show and converted it to run behind a Gilbert 21085 Pacific. It >was very easy to do. I simply drilled holes in the Gilbert tender floor to match the >mounting screws to the mounting posts on the Marx shell, and drilled a hole in the >front for the connecting wire. To see the results click on >http://waynestrains.homestead.com/NWpage.html or go the Norfolk and Western page on >my web site. > >Wayne Beachy >Midlothian & Manchester RR >http://www.waynestrains.homestead.com/index.html > > > Have converted boxcars--the ones with the stepper than normal roof--it takes an old AC E conversion floor as well as an AF one does. The big 2-bay hoppers that have cast plastic tabs that look like truck sides and that take a single flanged axle, will also take ACE conversion bolsters when you snap the truck sideframe tabs off; Admittedly the hoppers look oversize, but back before 1980, we didn't have much else. DE
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