Boucher did, of course, make a twin-motored Blue Comet locomotive. It was not a Hudson, but then the real Blue Comet locomotives were Baldwin Pacifics, not Hudsons, so Boucher was actually on target with their 4-6-2 wheel configuration. I used to hear rumors at York that Mike wanted to make a Boucher Blue Comet but no one would lend him their original to disassemble so he could make the tooling. Probably an urban legend but who knows?
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