Lou,
I was curious as to inquire about what sort of consensus you had reached concerning this project. I noticed in one of your posts above that new tooling would be used, but IIRC, in another post I thought you mentioned that Lionel was not willing to produce a scale detailed hudson. Correct me if I am mistaken in that regard and I would enjoy an udate if you have any progress to report.
Thanks!
Well, the recently-reissued Northerns used new tooling after the classic Gilbert original. So a reissue -- with tweaking -- of the classic Hudson would likely use "new tooling" but not be "scale detailed" as were the Flyonel Mikados & Pacifics.