Here we have a green Airflow on a prewar auto-flat and a postwar dump truck on a postwar auto-flat. The airflow is a clockwork powered example with steerable wheels (note the "U" shaped front axle holes). The truck can be determined to be postwar by the rounded windshield and the flatcar has plastic knuckle couplers (PKC) which did not appear until 1953. It is questionable whether the airflows were produced in the postwar era. The car model was from the mid 1930's and would have been more than 11 years old by that time. The truck still looked like a truck to little postwar boys!


This is a selection of trucks. Clockwise from the left they are:

• Prototype fire truck from 1937
• Patrol truck from a General Fire Alarm House, prewar
• Red cab, blue bed fixed stake truck, prewar
• Red cab, green bed fixed stake truck, prewar with motor
• Silver cab, red bed fixed stake truck, prewar with motor
• Blue fixed stake truck, prewar
• Blue body, red bed dumping dump truck, prewar
• Pale green body, red bed dunping dump truck, prewar
• Red cab, blue bed fixed dump truck, postwar
• Red cab, yellow bed dumping dump truck, postwar
• Red fixed stake truck, copper grille, postwar
• Orange body, green bed dumping dump truck, postwar

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This selection of trucks are less often seen. None of these are legitimate train loads. Clockwise from left they are:

Green wrecker (these are usually two toned), prewar

Red bus, prewar

Blue body, red back fuel truck (correctly repainted, repro grille), prewar

Red body, blue back, green door moving truck, prewar

Blue bus, prewar (from Greyhound Bus Station)

Red fuel truck, prewar

Silver body, red bed wrecker, prewar

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This selection of step vans include some that are rare. None of these are legitimate train loads. Clockwise from left they are:

Green Gas van

Blue Delivery van

Red Bus

White Milk Van

Grass green Delivery van

Red Delivery van

I presume all of these are prewar. The gas vans are probably around in other colors as well.
I have also seen a white Bread van and a red Ambulance van but was not able to examine them to determine authenticity.

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This orange bodied dump truck submitted by Larry Chernow
is only the second orange Marx 4" trainload vehicle I have seen

I offer a thorough examination of these 4" vehicles in The DEFINITIVE Guide to Marx trains, Joy Line and Six-Inch Tin.