MARX, ROAD RACE SETS, RAILROAD ACCESSORY SETS


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No. 22760 ROAD RACE SET
No. 0430 RAILROAD ACCESSORY SET
CATALOG – CIRCA 1957
CATALOG – UNKNOWN DATE
WARDS FAMOUS SWITCH TRAIN SET


No. 22760 ROAD RACE SET

Courtesy of “The Piazza Collection”


No. 0430 RAILROAD ACCESSORY SET

Courtesy of “The MacNair Collection”


CATALOG – CIRCA 1957


CATALOG – UNKNOWN DATE

Courtesy of Ken Morgan


WARDS FAMOUS SWITCH TRAIN SET

The box held the train, an overhead crane, transformer, two uncoupling sections, controller for the uncoupling sections and the switches, a left-hand switch, a dead-end bumper, and six straight and 8 curved pieces of track.

All components set up

At the bottom of the box, under the cardboard inserts was a track plan.
The track plan does not match the box contents. Not only does the plan have two switches and two bumpers but the switches are both right hand as opposed to the single left hand in this set. The track plan also does not indicate the presence of an overhead crane. , The cardboard inserts in this set box were designed to hold exactly what it had – there is no empty space to permit the inclusion of an extra switch or dead-end bumper and extra pieces of straight track.

A second piece of paper included is a notice of necessary changes made in filling the order and the rubber-stamped explanation on the left-hand side states, “(DS) we sent this item as the time before Christmas is so short you might not be able to get a suitable substitute anywhere”


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