April OGR Collectors Corner photo question

Amazing what you don't see until you take a picture of it!

I took the photos, and obviously I didn't notice this when we shot them. I shoot over 100 images for each issue of the magazine, and I just don't remember. 

I don't know if we damaged it by handling or if it came out of the box this way. The locomotive is no longer here at the  OGR World Headquarters, so I can't check it.

The Hudson in question is now in for repair because a component on the the RailSounds board failed. I will also have Dave Siburn fix the valve gear. Sorry I missed this when we were shooting the pictures for the April Collector's Gallery.

The LionMaster Hudson is a great locomotive if you are running traditional sized equipment behind it, which is why I am having it fixed it to run on my layout.

The tooling for the LionMaster Hudson was made in Korea, and they did a superior job of selectively proportioning the model in a less-than-scale size.

Ed Boyle

Thanks Rich and Ed.  It doesn't distract from the informative article content, but was just curious (just that engineering detail mentality of mine).   Sometimes I can look at something and never spot something someone else sees immediately....

Ed Boyle posted:

The tooling for the LionMaster Hudson was made in Korea, and they did a superior job of selectively proportioning the model in a less-than-scale size.

Ed Boyle

Would be an interesting article sometime, of how do you proportion and/or compress a model so it looks realistic and believable.  Obviously not everything can be scaled down by x% and have to allow for motor and board sizes before scaling down.