Today we're featuring yet another of the Marxville plastic accessories that Lois Marx & Co., Inc. started producing back in the early 1950s to go with their line of 3-rail O-gauge trains. This accessory would continue being made until nearly the end of Marx production in the mid-1970s and is a ubiquitous railroad accessory and for my money far superior in design to the Plasticville water tank. Don't get me wrong, Plasticville had some terrific stuff and offered a wide variety of structures, many of which Marx never produced like an apartment building or radio station, but even as a kid when I had the Plasticville water tank for my trains I thought it looked funky.
Enjoy From The Berg's :)
#065 Water
Tower with Spout
- Red supports, silver-gray tank and spout
- Yellow supports, red tank and spout
- Green supports, yellow tank and spout
- Gray supports, yellow tank and spout
- White supports, red tank and spout
- Black supports, black tank and spout
Production beginning or earliest appearance
in a catalog: 1950
Marx logo: None
Size: 8 ¼” (21cm) H
Description: Plastic round
tank, 3 ½” (8.9cm) H x 4 ¼” (10.8cm) Dia, sitting atop four plastic supports w/square plastic
feet; moveable spout; plastic ladder
