Marx Military Flatcar Loads - A Comparison Look At The Originals and Repos

Let's take a quick peek at the colors found in original Marx military flatcar loads and a couple of packs of repos.

Ed

Originals

These vehicles would have been sold paired with a flatcar. I have yet to see separate sale packaging, only train set packaging. That doesn't mean they weren't sold separately, I just don't know of any.

Here we see the vehicles 

These three were separate purchases and aren't the same ones shown in the set above and are shown  packaged in a protective sleeve - not a box

Here are the various original Marx colors I have in the collection. It is safe to assume that all six vehicles could have been made in all the colors. The most common colors were the gray-silver, and olive green or drab.

Repos

The repos were mostly sold as a set of six vehicles but they were also paired with flatcars sold by Marx Trains.

Marx Trains #7331-3 USAX Flatcar with Load

In this case the repo loads are a tan color.

Marx Trains #7331-3 USAX Flatcar withTruck Load

Blue Set

Unfortunately, I never took photos of the original packaging when I bought these. I bought them in the '90s for my trains but didn't do photo work-ups on them until much later after I started the blog.

Olive Green Set

Marx Repo Military Flatcar Load - Tank - Silver HP

I had said in an earlier post that the repos from the '80 / '90s era Marx Toys company were molded in different colors than the originals. This silver tank does look an awful lot like the original Marx but there is a noticeable difference that is sometimes hard to notice unless you have the two pieces up close and personal: the original Marx tank is a more muted gray-silver color than the brighter silver repo.

Ed

Original

(treads were painted by a previous owner)

'Marx' herald under the tank

Repo

No 'Marx' herald under the tank

Shown here with 35mm figure from the Marxville Army Barracks

Marx Repo Military Flatcar Load - Stake Bed Truck - Olive Green HP

Yet another Marx military flatcar load that never got posted back in 2016 along with rest of the flatcar loads.

Ed