MARX 1950 HTF Side-Dumping Car NEW YORK CENTRAL Rd# 967 Rare O 27

  

To see all our listings, visit: Ikas Train Store. This is a very rare, hard to find, and highly sought-after car. Please, do study the pictures and especially note that, unfortunately, one of the locking pins is broken off one end, it's hard to see but does not affect the function.

This is not a toy. This is rare and fragile adult collectible. According to the "Marx tin website": The black dump-car is harder to find. It came only in an early. 4-wheel plastic trainset headed up by a tin locomotive numbered 994.

As best as I can tell, the hinging, works as it should, gently lifting up on the hopper allows it. To rotate to the left or the right; return to center and it can be dropped back down into a locked position, but this is a manual-only mechanism, meant to be operated only by hand while playing toy trains and NOT intended to work with any automatic/solenoid operated devices. No other items are included. The Marx 994 was Marx's largest tin-bodied locomotive.

It wasn't made for very long, but thanks to its size, collectors still like the Marx 994 locomotive. Marx released the Locomotive #994 in 1950 to compete with Unique Art, a rival maker of tin toys who had entered the market in 1949. Unique's trains were priced like Marx's and ran on the same O gauge track but were slightly larger, which made them appear to be a better value. Marx countered by introducing its own line of trains in a similar size.

The Marx 994 measured 10.25 inches in length. For comparison, a Marx 999 or Commodore Vanderbilt is about 8.5 inches in length. Marx's top-of-the-line 333 locomotive is 10.5 inches in length. The 994 used the same common 4-wheel Marx motor as the 999, Commodore Vanderbilt, and other engines of the day. The motor had four drive wheels, and Marx complemented them with fake stamped-in leading and trailing trucks on the body itself.

This made the locomotive look like it had additional wheels (kind of), but only having four wheels on the track meant the train was much less likely to derail when kids ran it on tight curves at high speeds. It wasn't a very good model, but it was a good toy. These cars weren't quite the same size as Marx's 3/16-scale cars, but they were close. Their 4-wheel design and plastic knuckle couplers made them cheap to produce and sell, while narrowing the gap between Marx's product and Unique's.

And if Marx had to beat Unique on price, it would substitute a smaller locomotive for the 994 in a 7-inch set. Unique went out of business in 1951 and Marx acquired the tooling. Without Unique to compete with, the 994 was essentially a solution in search of a problem. The industry was moving toward plastic and diecast, and Marx suddenly had the tooling for Unique's locomotive on its hands as well.

Some experiments with Unique's tooling existed in Marx's archives, so Marx considered producing Unique's design, but in the end, Marx ended up using its diecast 333 and plastic 1829 as the largest offerings in its product line. Marx discontinued the 994 in 1952. Silicon Underground - David L. This item is in the category "Toys & Hobbies\Model Railroads & Trains\Railroads & Trains\Freight Cars". The seller is "ikasmreom1" and is located in this country: US.

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1. Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
2. Material: Plastic
3. Theme: Transportation
4. Scale: 1:48
5. Assembly Status: Ready to Go/Pre-built
6. Control System: Analog
7. Grade: C-7 Excellent
8. Type: Side Dumping Car
9. Features: Limited Edition
10. Rail System: 3-Rail-2-Conductor
11. Color: Black
12. Year Manufactured: 1950
13. Vintage: Yes
14. MPN: 567
15. Power Type: AC
16. Gauge: O-27
17. Age Level: 17 Years & Up
18. Corporate Roadname: New York Central Railroad
19. Brand: Marx
20. Replica of: Side Dump Car