Tom and Bill -- you are right, I probably did violate the KISS rule - which occurred to me after I hit "post". Tom, you are also right that the early Hudsons did have the reverse unit in the boiler - at some point (1948?) the 322 was set up with the smoke and choo-choo in the boiler and the reverse unit was moved to the tender. If I had looked more carefully at the pictures in Doyle's book, I would have seen the reverse lockout lever sticking up through the boiler in the early versions of the 322.
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