Cole, good catch on my 5221....but heck, I’m not worried at all about it. The central did some crazy things to get these appliances out on the road where they belonged. Not everything that was retrofitted, redone, repaired or swapped over made it into the history books...especially when it came to drivers, the guys in the shops would use up whatever was handy to get a certain machine back on the road again. My grandad was a mechanic on the central right in the Hudson’s heydays, although assigned to the electric shop, during the war, he was everywhere working on whatever he even got to move a hudson down the reversing loop at Harmon to couple onto an outbound....”best day ever” he said....Grandad was working in the shops when the B&A sent their J2s to the central. Some kept their dinky 8 wheel tenders, some got 12 wheel tenders left over from PT swaps. All depended where the J2s were heading, and whether or not they’d fit on a specific turntable or not....Grandad said it was a mess, and there was no rhyme or reason to what they were doing and they just ablibbed as they went along.....it’s hard to keep up with everything that went on at the central. By rights, my layout is loaded with Niagaras, so there’d hardly be a hudson on the front of any of the top named trains.....they’d would have certainly been bumped to lessor trains and freight.......gotta love this hobby!...........Pat
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