Now I Can Sleep Tonite

Amazing shot of the Central Michigan station here in Detroit.  Thanks for sharing.

Would be nice to have the station as a back drop picture for my layout.

Thanks for the info JDaddy. I've been perusing the internet on and off for weeks trying to find evidence to justify my purchase, and finally stumbled acrossed that photo.

Interesting side note is the top floors were never used. They were slated for offices for exports to Canada.

There is a book coming out of the NYCSHS titled "Know Thy Hudson", I am told late this spring. Hopefully it will answer a lot of these Hudson questions.

When the driver-swapping began, the silver paint on the drivers began to disappear, in general, for obvious esthetic reasons.

It seems that I have seen a photo in one of my "Hudson books" where an ESE Hudson, or maybe a Century Hudson, was sporting a "web-spoke" driver (not the older style of spoked driver that Lionel chose), but it was certainly not silver - and it was not weathering or dirt. But, most of the swapping (nearly all, I'd say) was between Scullin and Boxpok types. I've looked at a lot of NYC Hudson photos (and have seen more than one with a "standard" 12-wheel Hudson black tender behind a streamlined loco - so your tender choice can be quite correct).

The fact is, of course, "a lot" of photos isn't the same as "all" of the photos of my favorite loco, but I tend to notice when an image of one appears. I'm hoping the new book will broaden my NYC J1/2/3 horizons. 

D500 posted:

When the driver-swapping began, the silver paint on the drivers began to disappear, in general, for obvious esthetic reasons.

It seems that I have seen a photo in one of my "Hudson books" where an ESE Hudson, or maybe a Century Hudson, was sporting a "web-spoke" driver (not the older style of spoked driver that Lionel chose), but it was certainly not silver - and it was not weathering or dirt. But, most of the swapping (nearly all, I'd say) was between Scullin and Boxpok types. 

Lionels ESE with the PT tender were supposed to be one with mixed drivers and one with matched scullins. as it turns out both item numbers have an axle with boxpoks, just on different axles.

It makes one wonder if there was a mistake in manufacturing andthe boxpoks that were supposed to end up on the version with the j3a tender ended up on the" other" PT version. Maybe the spoked drivers were used in a pinch?

At any rate, I'm still very pleased with the loco, and its at least "closer" to accurate than maybe I thought.

Thanks to folks like yourself D500, who have slowly, but surely gotten me to aquire a taste for more accurate detail.

I started off with Lionmaster stuff, now the idea of a steam locomotive without brake shoes is ludicrous