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Reply to "A more modern model of an S scale NYC Hudson?"

I respectfully disagree with Rusty's analysis.

Lionel, in keeping with the usual O gauge practice, packs most of the electronics into the engine and leaves the tender pretty empty.  AC Gilbert packed the reverse unit and the whistle into the tender. If one modeled a NYC Hudson with an extended tender (like this MTH O Gauge model Image result for hudson with extended tender

you would have plenty of room for electronics in the tender and enough room in the engine for added weight.   One might have to put up with hard wiring from the tender to the engine but I think a plastic boiler on a Hudson is "doable".  Dare I suggest that, since they already have a workable 4-8-4 mechanism that a plastic bodied Niagara or Mohawk with the same tender would also be something that folks (at least those of us who grew up on the "Water Level Route") would buy.  If any of those engines were offered with scale details in durable metal at a flyer chief price point, I would eat brussels sprouts 3 meals a day for 6 months to afford to buy any or all of them.  

LittleTommy

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