Is that real? I saw one on ebay but espee.railfan.net doesn't show that in their steam index. Did SP have this?
A hudson as in wheel arrangement...maybe. As built by Hudson...No! They did have some GS2's, GS3's and GS4's built by Lima. Only a few of these in the Sunset Daylight colors.
Concor for has for years put paint jobs and roadnames on locomotives that the protoype road never had, or never painted that way if they did have the wheel arrangement or type. An example was the streamlined Hudson in GN roadname and colors when they never rostered a single locomotive of that wheel arrangement and the conventional firebox 2-10-2 in GN when all were actually Belpaire boiler and firebox for both types. Even the new Galloping Goose is being offered in GN and other roads even though that unit was only built and owned by by the RGS. So the loco is probably a factory paint Concor unit albeit not a correct wheel arrangement for the prototype.
That's NO New York Central J-3. Wrong shape, nose treatment and skirting wrong. NO NYC Hudson ever pulled a Vandy tender. The nose cone is similar to New Haven's Hudsons, but all similarity ends there. Looks like a scratch design to me. :sad:
Yeah it did take a little work to make it look like a T&NO P-14 Pacific. It ain't perfect but no longer looks anything like the NYC locomotive it started out as. This is what I was aiming at.
Russell, sorry about my harsh comments. I didn't know that you had kitbashed the original. The first shot on that website is very interesting to me as it shows a NYC J-3 in Santa Fe paint. Usually it's the opposite, a Santa Fe Hudson with NYC paint. They didn't look much like each other. The further down the site I went the more I realized how much poetic license some of the manufacturers take. Thanks for the link. :teeth:
