Reply to "Help! My Lionel J3a 5433 is having speed and direction issues."

Cole, have you already acquired the PT tender for 5429? ....if so, the sound package in that tender is really descent....leave it be and re-number your cab to 5429. Photos do exist of 5429 in service un-shrouded before she got her dress,and it kept in service even after being bumped from the ESE.......in some photos, you can see where they even started taking off some of her clothes....who’s to say she met the scrapper’s torch with all her streamlining? .....if I were in your shoes, I’d have an unshrouded 5429 J3A ....that’d be a neat piece....I have a lot of Hudsons...but I don’t have one like that....hurry up before I beat ya to it!............Pete (Norton) and I conversed one evening for hours on what to do with one of my J1’s ....and this is the model we finally came up with....is it 100% accurate? Probably not, but it’s dang close and I love it....along with the other 30 odd Hudsons ............Pat