MARX Tank Car Tab-Couplers ~ Santa Fe ~ MIDDLE STATES OIL 4-Wheel Rd# 553

Description: It is assembled and ready to go, with tab and slot couplers and painted features. The power type is AC, and it is designed for analog control systems on a 3-rail rail system with a gauge of O-27. The tank car is made from pressed steel and lithographed materials, with a grade of C-7 Excellent and a length of 6 inches. The corporate roadname is Santa Fe Southern Railway, and the theme is petroleum. This vintage toy is perfect for model railroads and trains enthusiasts aged 17 years and up. Marx made five different types of couplers between 1934 and 1974. If you’ve never seen Marx couplers explained before, here’s a primer on how to identify them and use them together. And I even have a few repair tips if you need them. You’ll see tab and slot couplers more often than any other type. Some people also call them hook and slot couplers, or simply hook couplers. Marx introduced this style of coupler in 1936 and continued to use it until the end in 1974, although Marx relegated it to locomotive-to-tender connections after 1972. Marx may or may not have used it longer than anyone else, but they were the last of the big-name train manufacturers to stop using it in the United States. It wasn’t very realistic, but it was inexpensive and effective. It’s also compatible with a number of other coupler types, so a Marx car outfitted with these couplers makes a useful transition car so you can run more than one type together. Marx had some variants on this design. Cars intended for electric train sets had their couplers attached via a brass eyelet. Cars intended for clockwork-powered train sets had their couplers attached via tabs or a dimple that allowed them to slide. Clockwork locomotives like some slack in the couplers, as it makes it easier to get the train started. Electric sets work better without that much slack. The small amount of slack you get from fixed couplers is adequate for electric sets. The tilt - fork coupler dates to 1942. Marx kept making it all the way to the end of its train production, in 1974. It was Marx’s top of the line coupler. All of the train makers wanted a coupler design that could automatically couple or uncouple so as to improve play value. The tilt - fork coupler was Mars's second and more successful effort. The tilt-fork couplers will automatically mate by running the cars into each other, as long as their height is close. It’s a good idea to check your metal tilt couplers’ height against a plastic tilt coupler for smoother running. You can adjust the height slightly by gently bending the coupler up or down.Later tilt couplers made of plastic had a slot in them to make them compatible with tab and slot couplers. When Jim and Debby Flynn licensed the name Marx Trains and started producing trains in the old Marx style, they included a slot in their metal coupler. Some hobbyists cut a slot in their metal couplers with a Dremel cut-off wheel so they can attach a tab and slot coupler to them. A small cut at the back of the existing opening suffices. ** SiliconeUnderground - Dave Farquhar Already a successful lawyer, railroad promoter, and politician, Charles Haskell ventured into the Indian Territory in 1901 looking for business opportunities. He advocated statehood and when it came in 1907, Haskell became Oklahoma’s first governor. He is remembered by some as a progressive Democrat who introduced child labor statutes and graduated income tax; by others as a man who took bribes from Standard Oil Company. In 1911, after leaving the governor’s office in Oklahoma City – had moved the capitol from Guthrie one night in 1910 – Haskell went to work for Harry F. Sinclair “investigating and negotiating for properties in the oil fields of the state.” Five years later, Sinclair incorporated Sinclair Oil & Refining Company. A year later in 1917, Haskell incorporated Middle States Oil Corporation as a Delaware holding company. Maybe you should get the loved-one in your life a gift of jewelry while you get your Railroad item. Use combined shipping and get them shipped for one price. To see all our listing, visit: Ika's Trains and Collectables Note #1: I will combine shipping for multiple items. Please purchase the items but do *NOT* pay. I will review and calculate shipping as close as to what I have to pay. I will then forward an invoice with the adjusted shipping. If you do pay ahead of this recalculation, I will refund the shipping difference as part of preparing the items for shipment. Note #2: I want you to be happy with your purchase & would appreciate you leaving positive feedback. In the event you are not, please contact me immediately before leaving feedback so we may resolve it. Thank you. Note #3: If not previously stated item(s) come from a smoke-free environment with cats. Note #4: This is a Grandma & Grandpa shop. We have a 4-business day shipping window (this means that if you pay for your order on a Friday, it may not get shipping until the following Thursday). We do combine shipping especially when we are asked about it. Note #5: If you live in Ohio, we may be willing to do a local pick up or delivery. Depending on where the pick-up is, there may be a small fee. The pick-up fee is always less than the shipping cost. Please contact us before you pay for your order so that we can correct the listing to allow for pick-up. Domestic customers if you want combined shipping, please purchase all your items in one order. If you purchase items in more than one order, send us a message so that we know about the additional items and box the orders together. (When items are bought in multiple orders, we do not always notice they were bought by the same person unless we are notified by the buyer.) We refund extra shipping charges when combined shipping is requested. If we ship items separately, we do not issue a shipping refund. For our international customers: YES!! we do combine shipping. You must purchase all the items at the same time in one order to get the shipping combined by eBay.

Price: 11 USD

Location: London, Ohio

End Time: 2024-09-04T22:34:31.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD