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Those unusual sets that would have been collector's items - if only they had been made. Well, now they are.

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Keep the Marines 'First in the Fight'
with this Streamlined Supply Train.

Convert your common or poor condition cars into a stirring Marine Corps blue version of one of the most cherished toys of the 20th Century. Why let the Army have all the fun? Whether running down the track or sitting on your shelf, the Marine Corps Supply Train will grab the attention of any onlooker.

A great companion piece to display with your Marx or other plastic Marine figures, too.

2000
US Marine Corps Supply Train

7 cars, locomotive and tender
– $34.00
Dark blue supply train cars with USMC Insignia in red, and Marines in the windows, done in 1930s tin-litho style. Plus removable trim to fit the Marx® Canadian Pacific/3000-style locomotives (shown with repainted boiler).

Set contains one of each product below, or order single products separately.

Full Set

  2001 - Loco Trim and Tender for CP/3000-style engine
  plus Ordnance Gondola Car side panels.– $8.50
  2002 - Radio Car and Command Car– $8.50
  Command Car uses a Marx® 6" Caboose body.
  2003 - Ammo Boxcar and Troop Coach– $8.50
  2004 - USMC Tankcar and Flatcar– $8.50

  2290 - Caboose Platform Fillers (3) – $2.00
  Fold-up blocks for Command Car neatly fill
  caboose front platform
to add strength.


Here Comes the Circus!!!

After 60 years, the Circus is finally coming to town in 6" metal cars. Every car is a different color. Perfect to liven up operations on your layout, or to display with your Marx® circus figures.


2010
Circus Express

8 cars plus Loco Trim and Tender– $40.00

Full Set

Festive red circus loco and tender hauls brightly-colored cars to your town. Menagerie cars show exotic animals, stock cars transport horses and elephants, baggage car carries tents and equipment, the coach/caboose carries the performers and circus office - and a canvas covered gondola and circus flatcar handles anything else.
Set contains one of each product below, or order single products separately.

2019
Circus Express Locomotive and Tender – $8.50

 
Colorful red locomotive sideboard trim fits Marx® Canadian Pacific/3000-style engine (shown with repainted boiler), and tender wrap brightens up any box-style or notch-front tender (letter panel for wedge tender also included).

2011
Menagerie Car
(Rhino & Camel)
and
Elephant Car
– $8.50

 
Festive purple menagerie car has a rhino and a camel. Blue elephant car shows grey pachyderm backs through the slats, while one trunk reaches out.
lion carhorse car

2012

Menagerie Car
(Lion &
Tiger) and
Horse Car
– $8.50
 
Red menagerie car shows off crowd-pleasing lion and tiger. One horse pokes his head out the ventilation window of the horse transport car.

2013

Performer's Coach/Caboose and
Equipment Baggage Car
– $8.50
 
These two cars fit Marx® 6" caboose bodies. Performer's/office car can be built as either open-platform coach or caboose. Equipment/Baggage car has billboard sides. You will need to supply an extra coupler or substitute for the Equipment Car or use a caboose body on a freight car frame.

2014

Gondola Car with Canvas Cover and
Flat Car
– $8.50
 
Flatcar and canvas-covered gondola car carry whatever supplies the circus may need. Gondola side panels can be used with or without canvas cover. (Shown on Marx® Seaboard red gondola.)

Open Up the West
With These Old-Time Passenger Cars

Perfect display pieces for your Marx cowboys and Indians. A colorful western train with open-end Coach, Baggage Car, Wells Fargo Express Car/Combine, Horse Car, and Boxcar – and even a private "Palace Car" for the president of the railroad (that's you).

2020
Old-Time Western Train

6 cars– $24.00

Brown and yellow Rio Grande Western open-platform passenger cars, plus colorful freight cars, and an ornate wood-sided private car.

Set contains one of each product below, or order single products separately.

Full Set

  2024Central Pacific Boxcar (orange) plus
RGW Horse Car
(brown/yellow) $8.50
  2022Old-Time Coach and
Express Combine
– $8.50
  These two cars fit Marx® 6" caboose bodies.
  They will require extra couplers or substitutes.
  2023Baggage Car and
Private 'Palace Car'
– $8.50
  These two cars fit Marx® 6" caboose bodies.
  The Baggage Car will require an extra coupler or substitute.
  No Locomotive Wrap available for this set 

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And, if you haven't seen them already, check out
STREAMLINERS and NAME TRAIN SETS

The famous and romantic name trains of 20th-Century railroading. Passenger car sets, complete with streamlined steam locomotives, that fit common tin Marx® equipment.
See them now.
SEE HOW EASY IT IS to convert a worn-out car into a shiny new centerpiece for your train.

NOTE: FauxToys does not sell complete locomotives or cars.
Products are printed wraps to convert existing cars and engines to new styles and colors.
"Marx" is a registered trademark of Marx Toys, Inc. and Marx Trains. FauxToys has no connection with either company.

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