I have not sat down and examined the later Lionel’s from the VL 700 on up.....it wouldn’t surprise me none if Lionel utilized existing tooling on one, if not more of the later offerings.....I have a Legacy ESE, and it’s on the workbench, I’ll look and see if there’s any similarities between the Kline Hudson chassis, and this ESE chassis.....I’ve been wondering about the latest J3’s and if those chassis are derivatives of the old Kline tooling...as Lou ( Lou1985) shows in his Kline ( we call them Klegacy builds) Berk, the Legacy chassis is a bolt in swap, so clearly Lionel must have altered existing tooling to make the Legacy Berks .....again, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if this happened on some of Lionel’s J class Hudsons......that’ll make for a simpler swap of a much better and bigger motored chassis than what the Kline has in it now, and open up a lot of possibilities to mod up older Kline’s .....I’ll let y’all know...again, thanks to Pete ( Norton ) who originally did the foot work and figured out these Kline/ Lionel oddities that’s making these swaps even feasible....
Pat
